China's economic interests in Africa offer investments in infrastructure and other benefits, Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations Macharia Kamau said Feb. 26 at a Cornell Law School symposium.
Right-wing parties in Europe, like France's National Front, are taking advantage of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, panelists said Feb. 27.
Jonathan Boyarin, the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has translated a history of East European Jewry.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner, shared anecdotes from his time at Cornell and his career Feb. 25.
Cornell students were immersed into “expeditionary learning” this January in a rural Taos, New Mexico, high school. They worked on multidisciplinary projects that get students out into the community.
A Cornell-led study of the genome and RNA of hookworm reveals for the first time which genes are activated and deactivated during key phases of infection. The findings could lead to more effective treatments.
Rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens, according to a new study from a team of researchers from Cornell and Columbia.
MSNBC host and scholar Melissa Harris-Perry put the history of black struggle in America in perspective in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, saying "The stories of struggle that we tell our children are incomplete."
The sounds of the natural environment and their inspiration on composers like Olivier Messiaen – who used recordings from Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology – will be celebrated in a festival March 5-9.