As part of the Global Health Program's new collaboration in the Dominican Republic, ten Dominican medical students visited campus for a week beginning Oct. 15 to exchange ideas and knowledge.
A play titled "Root Map," developed in Cornell's Bodies at the Border distance learning class, is an international collaboration of academics and artists from around the world.
Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
Freshman Abu Qader is running a company, GliaLab, which is developing software that can improve the accuracy of breast cancer diagnoses, especially in developing countries.
Since Sofia Aumann ’19 uncovered the complicated issues behind human sex trafficking as she worked on a research project, she has supported schooling for girls in developing nations.
After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” as reported in Nature, March 2.
While developed countries have long been blamed for Earth’s rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers now predict when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.
Cornell engineers have demonstrated a novel method to accurately monitor topside icing in seafaring ships using a combination of applied mathematics and computational mechanics.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.