Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.

Kicking off a new year of entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Kickoff is hosted each year by Entrepreneurship at Cornell and drew than 300 students this year.

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Hubs grant launches AI collaboration, new proposals due Oct. 4

What are the options for limiting harm as AI use grows? This is one of the questions a network of international colleagues are tackling in a research collaboration launched with a 2022 Joint Research Seed Grant from Global Cornell’s Global Hubs initiative. This year’s cycle of Global Hubs seed grants recently opened.

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Upcoming International Fair to spark global curiosity

The upcoming International Fair is poised to spark students’ interest in the world on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 11 a.m to 1:30 p.m. on the Uris Hall Terrace. 

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Cornellian Dake wins second Olympic wrestling bronze

Wrestler Kyle Dake ’13, one of five Cornellians in Paris for the Olympic Games, defeated Hetik Cabolov of Serbia, 10-4, in the 74-kilogram division on Aug. 10 to win his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal.

eCornell, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv unite to support Ukrainians

eCornell and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv are collaborating to give Ukrainian citizens and refugees access to Cornell certificate programs.

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Hybrid system would create new ‘backbone’ for internet in space

A new NATO-funded effort led by assistant professor Greg Falco ’10 seeks to make the internet less vulnerable to disruption by rerouting its flow of information to space.

Ag solution can boost Senegal’s economy while battling parasite

Cornell and global researchers are finding ways to control disease-carrying aquatic plants in Senegal by turning the flora into inexpensive compost or livestock feed – and helping the economy.

Exhibition highlights overlooked colonial Latin American art

“Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” opening July 20 at the Johnson Museum, brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.