On the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, the accident’s chief investigator, cited some of the catastrophe's causes: the government's lack of transparency and 'groupthink.'
Senior extension associate Keith Tidball was part of a U.S. delegation that is advising the Philippine government on best practices to respond to natural disasters.
Cornell economist John Cawley will travel to Ireland this month as a Fulbright Specialist in Economics as part of a program to promote connections between American and international scholars.
The Cornell in Turin program was recognized in an Italian newspaper for students' work with community centers in their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.
Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.
A $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Cornell will train agricultural researchers from sub-Saharan Africa in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research.
After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” as reported in Nature, March 2.
Policy recommendations by 25 Cornell students were delivered to policymakers at the Food and Agriculture Organization's International AgriBiotech Symposium in Rome via webinar from the Ithaca campus.
