More than 150 people, including many students, helped make hygiene kits to ship to girls around the world by the organization Day for Girls. Eight students organized the event.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is celebrating its 10th anniversary by focusing with renewed urgency on more powerful ways to translate knowledge into action.
Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and International Human Rights Clinic has issued a report on Argentine women in prison and recommends reform of drug sentencing.
Eight sub-Saharan plant breeders from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina and Ghana celebrated their new Ph.D.s from the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, a partnership between Cornell and the University of Ghana.
Owen Lee-Park ’15, a native of South Korea, made a rare visit to North Korea in September. He spoke to doctors and medical students about the state of North Korean health care.
Universities should share discoveries crucial to combating diseases plaguing people in poverty, assert two Cornell scientists in a special issue of Nature.
Wendy Wolford, Cornell’s vice provost for international affairs and the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, discusses her background, interdisciplinary approach, the university’s support for students and faculty in international work, the Global Grand Challenge, the new Cornell China Center and more.
Thirty-six Chinese students took the opportunity to prepare for graduate study and experience American educational norms through the Cornell-China Undergraduate Summer Program.