The System of Rice Intensification, a method of growing rice that enhances crop yields and is resilient to climate change, won the international Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security.
ILR School student J. Lowell Jackson ’17 will study Bahasa Indonesian for three months this summer through the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.
Dice-like knucklebones and poker-chip colored stones aren't evidence of a 3,500-year-old casino, Cornell archaeologists explain. "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood might agree.
Culturally diverse food and performances highlight Taste of Culture, the Translator Interpreter Program’s semi-annual food festival, Monday, March 16, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.
Victor Nee, director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, has received a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study capitalist institutions in China.
The 2015 Lund Critical Debate March 3 brought a former U.S. ambassador to the Middle East and a scholar together to debate whether U.S. policy in the region works.
A Cornell research team is joining local efforts to help design a socio-ecological corridor that could help save endangered, threatened, endemic species in Ecuador's Andes region.
Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Russia 2012-14, will deliver the 2015 Bartels World Affairs Lecture, “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West” March 16.
