Cornell has co-founded a global coalition to help preserve the world's most important ecosystems. The coalition will create new opportunities for private investment in conservation and sustainable development.
"Bones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur" by Tamara Loos, associate professor of history, focuses on Prince Prisdang Chumsai of Siam, which reads like a modern soap opera.
A memorandum of understanding between Cornell and Costa Rica will bring more graduate students to the university to study public administration in the College of Human Ecology.
The initiative, a project of the Cornell Institute for European Studies, will provide a multidisciplinary platform for the study of the Ottoman Empire. Inaugural events begin March 14.
Political and foreign relations experts including Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe will explore the crisis in Ukraine at a public panel discussion March 14 in Uris Auditorium.
The Luce Scholars Program, aimed at increasing awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society, provides stipends and placement in one-year internships in Asia.
Assistant professor of music Ariana Kim found inspiration among a group of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy for her CCA Biennial arts and empathy project, to be presented on campus April 29.
Cornell will send half of all students abroad for study or a meaningful academic experience by 2020, according to a commitment it signed with the Institute of International Education.