Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
A a $4.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable Cornell University Library to expand a database of scientific knowledge in the developing world.
A Cornell and Smithsonian Institution study published in PLOS-ONE has found that how sperm is collected in Asian elephants matters in preserving this endangered species.
Even more violent food riots and overthrown governments are predicted in a new book edited by Cornell's Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”
Panelists Michael Lewis and Mary Ellen O'Connell took on the question of the legality of American drone strikes in the Lund Critical Debate Nov. 21 on campus.
“Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unraveling the Impact of Foreign Aid,” co-edited by Professor Nicolas van de Walle, explores whether foreign aid in Africa has helped or hindered democratization efforts.
