The Cornell International Friendship Program pairs local residents with international students and scholars to promote friendships and make the students' experiences more homey.
Last month, Cornell hosted 13 Swedish researchers for the Stockholm-Cornell Symposium on Insect Biology, reciprocating a similar meeting held in Stockholm in 2011.
Sun-Uk Kim, president of Ewha Womans University in South Korea, delivered the Law School's Clarke Lecture Oct. 21 and also signed a memorandum of understanding with Cornell.
“India: The Story of Growth, Democracy and ‘Soft Power’” will be the topic when Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay, consul general of India in New York and that country’s representative to the United Nations, speaks 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at Cornell.
More than 150 people, including many students, helped make hygiene kits to ship to girls around the world by the organization Day for Girls. Eight students organized the event.
Eight sub-Saharan plant breeders from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina and Ghana celebrated their new Ph.D.s from the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, a partnership between Cornell and the University of Ghana.
The Martin Y. Tang International Scholarship Challenge has raised $4.39 million in endowment gifts from 12 families, resulting in a 19 percent increase in scholarship support for undergraduate international students at Cornell and support for five graduate fellowships.
