Students share global and public health projects, solutions to problems

More than 40 student teams gave presentations based on their global and public health learning at the Cornell Global Health Program annual symposium Nov. 3.

Law students translate SCOTUS for the global public

Law students takes on the job of explaining in plain English the legal and policy issues in upcoming Supreme Court cases.

Saving Coney Island from the roller coaster of climate change

As sea levels rise, the Coney Island peninsula may become uninhabitable. Cornell landscape architecture graduate students wrestle with the island’s tenable, livable resilience as nature aims to reclaim it.

Cornell International Education Week Nov. 13-17

Cornell joins universities around the country in celebrating global learning during International Education Week, Nov. 13 to 17.

Gavriel Shapiro memoir chronicles leaving the Soviet Union

A new memoir by Gavriel Shapiro, professor of comparative and Russian literature, recounts his struggle to leave the Soviet Union.

Engineers turn research into prototypes with Scale Up Awards

Four teams of engineering faculty and students each received up to $20,000 from the college to advance their laboratory research toward functioning prototypes.

Faculty weigh in on ‘Tyranny’ book at community read

Faculty members discussed the book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” Oct. 30.

Climate change, sparse policies endanger right whale population

North Atlantic right whales – a highly endangered species making modest population gains in the past decade – may be imperiled by warming waters and insufficient international protection, according to a new Cornell analysis published online in Global Change Biology, Oct. 30.

Statewide paid family leave becomes effective Jan. 1

As of Jan. 1, 2018, employers in New York state will be required to offer paid leave for eligible staff members to bond with a new child, care for a family member with a serious health condition or fulfill a qualifying military exigency.

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