Four international research projects will be supported by U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad awards to Cornell via the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, founded Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market.
Cornell economist Kaushik Basu has been named president-elect of the International Economic Association. He will assume the position of president in 2017.
For massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that help dieticians and nutritionists around the world understand the latest research, course completion rates more than double that of normal MOOC fare.
David R. Lee, professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, has been named the first Provost’s Fellow for Internationalization.