MPA, Peace Corps announce fellows program

Cornell's MPA program, offered though the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, has launched a new fellowship program that will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers.

Casanova among top Ibero-American intellectuals

Lourdes Casanova, senior lecturer and academic director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, was named one of the 50 Most Influential Intellectuals.

Benedict Anderson, who wrote ‘Imagined Communities,' dies

Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.

Public affairs students put classroom skills into practice

Public affairs students took on projects this fall for nonprofit, for-profit and government organizations around the world, from Danby, New York, to Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Panama.

Cornell Rewind: The fluid landscapes of yesteryear

Throughout Cornell's history, the campus exists as a fluid representation of history, culture, science, the arts and tradition, which give way to modern mores and contemporary values.

NutriPhone dials in fast, affordable health care

NutriPhone, a new smartphone apps to monitor users' nutrition, blood and stress, was developed at Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

$13.4 million grant will help combat malnutrition in India

Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.

Alliance for Science launches hunger conversation at UN

The Cornell Alliance for Science converged on the United Nations Nov. 17 to launch a global conversation about ending world hunger.

Language program jump-starts students studying abroad

A variety of language-learning programs serve the needs of more than 2,000 Cornell students who traveled to 108 countries in the 2013-14 to study, research or participate in a faculty-led experience.