The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill to overhaul immigration laws but the House will probably not vote on it this year, said adjunct professor of law, Stephen Yale-Loehr '77, J.D. '81, at a press briefing May 17 in Washington, D.C.
Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and International Human Rights Clinic has issued a report on Argentine women in prison and recommends reform of drug sentencing.
Graduate student Semagn Kolech will expand sustainable farming in Ethiopia, turning it from a place where it's hard to grow sustainable crops to a place where farming flourishes.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, which administers the Fulbright program at Cornell, reports that a record 27 Cornellians have received awards in 2013-14.
Newfield student Cynthia Ulbing has been awarded an international internship from the World Food Prize Foundation. She is earning college credit working on campus through the New Visions Life Sciences program.
Cornell representatives attended in the first board meeting in Chile of the institutions planning to build the world's largest submillimeter wavelength telescope.
The Cornell International Summit: Hospitality, Real Estate and the Built Environment, in Shanghai April 20, attracted 275 Cornellians and friends to discuss the state of China's hospitality and commercial real estate markets.
The sixth Cornell Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference, held April 19-21 in Shanghai, drew record-high attendance of nearly 100 Cornell alumni, parents, friends and faculty members.
