The Rwandan government wants to adopt an American style code of contract law based on common law, and Professor Robert Summers is helping help draft it.
Cornell ROTC has organized volunteers for two working trips to Broome County to help rebuild homes destroyed by the floods that swept through the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley last June.
For 50 years, the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point on Oneida Lake has been serving as the springboard for a prolific and wide-ranging research program from studies of fish ecology and management to population dynamics, invasion biology and colonial birds.
A Cornell-affiliated institution, the Paleontological Research Institution boasts one of largest fossil collections in the country with more than 2 million specimens.
A survey asks Cornell researchers what they need to do research involving massive amounts of data, as a step in upgrading the university's cyberinfrastructure.
A Cornell program has shown that rice yields can be hugely increased through simple changes in how plants, soil, water and nutrients are managed. The program has drawn attention worldwide and is now on the short list of a $1 million sustainability prize.
The Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China, in honor of Cornell's 11th president, will support several projects each year between Cornell and the finest higher education institutions in China.
Professor Gary Evans, an environmental psychologist in the College of Human Ecology, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University.
As the world's biggest oil consumer, the United States needs to work much harder to reduce waste, stressed a land-use and transportation-planning expert in a keynote address for the Young Global Leaders Summit.
