The China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) Program at Cornell observed its 10th anniversary April 1, when Arts and Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter and others visited Beijing.
CUontheHill, a virtual resource for newly admitted students, creates a social media space to engage with Cornellians and help with their decision to attend Cornell.
Cornell's SRI (System of Rice Intensification) International Network and Resources Center helped train 17 Haitians recently in how to train farmers to improve rice productivity in the northern Coronel-Dubre region of Haiti.
Cornell’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative seeks to engage students, faculty and the community in discussion of the region’s political, cultural, economic and historic dimensions.
Anjum Malik ’16 is researching why Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria have destroyed museums and heritage sites and reminds us that Western powers did the same thing a century ago.
Ellen Abrams, a doctoral student in science and technology studies, did an ethnographic study of a class at Nesin Mathematics Village in Turkey as part of her thesis work.
A new initiative offers hope for African small farms by helping ensure that new seed varieties with higher yields make it through the supply chain from breeders to farmers.
Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.
The Association of American Universities issued a statement in response to the American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Cornell President David Skorton signed the AAU statement as a member of its executive committee.