Scholarship sends ILR student to study Indonesian language

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.

Bronze Age bones offer evidence of political divination

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.

Taste of Culture 2015 to feature diverse food, performances

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.

Students produce magazine about Cornell – in Mandarin

“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.

Sociologist studies China’s transition to market economy

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.

Views diverge on U.S. Middle East policy in Lund Debate

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.

Ecological corridor to preserve Ecuadorian Andes bears

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.

Former U.S. envoy to Russia delivers Bartels Lecture

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.

Forensics team wins debate championship

A Cornell Forensics Society team made up of Julia Montejo ’17 and Jose Martinez ’18 took top honors in the Spanish division of the Pan American University Debating Championship Jan. 25 in Miami, Florida.