A $24 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will expand the scope of a global partnership to combat climate-change-induced heat stress and disease pathogens in crops.
Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran diplomat and former special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is on campus as the Einaudi Center's first International Practitioner-in-Residence.
Cornell’s newest MOOC will give thousands of students worldwide an opportunity to learn skills that are regularly taught to the university's undergraduate engineering students on campus.
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.
