Six alumni and faculty offered an overview of Cornell's contributions to poverty and development economics in a Charter Day Weekend panel April 25 on campus.
Albie Sachs, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, will make his first official visit to campus Aug. 28-Sept. 7. The lawyer, judge, activist, scholar and author will present a public lecture Aug. 29.
Scholars from East China Normal University and Cornell addressed postcolonial legacies, memorial responsibilities, future memory, social memory, televisual time, and memory and reason.
Experts are at Cornell July 7-18 for training in World Health Organization procedures to inform WHO’s recommendations for nutrition and public health policy.
Six Cornell student-athletes, past and present, will represent four different countries when the 2016 Olympic Summer Games kick off Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
As part of an effort to broaden Cornell's international diversity, Lee H. Melvin, associate vice provost for enrollment, traveled to India to meet with five Tata scholars and other admitted students.
Chiara Formichi, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies, recalls her recent trip to Iran to study Shi’i Islam, where she observed surprisingly diverse forms of religious expression.
The Atkinson Center is awarding more than $1.3 million in seed grants to support roughly a dozen interdisciplinary research collaborations at Cornell that address key sustainability challenges.
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.