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.
Hakim Weatherspoon, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, is leading a workshop aimed at minority college students to encourage advanced study in STEM fields.
Sean Eversley Bradwell, Ph.D. ’09, assistant professor at Ithaca College, gave the keynote address, "The Ability to Achieve Purpose," at a recent Men of Color Colleague Network Group luncheon.
An open house will celebrate the opening of two diversity units - the Cornell Intercultural Center and the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives - and recognize three new diversity leaders.
Ten faculty-led projects are receiving approximately $170,000 in Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum grants this year, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs has announced.
A new fellowship funded by Don Follett ’52 and Mibs Follett ’51 aims to encourage Cornell Engineering graduates to pursue master’s degrees at Cornell Tech, boosting the pipeline of students and cementing connections between the two campuses.
Michael Fontaine, professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, had fun publishing the first translation of 16th-century poet John Placentius’ playful “Pugna Porcorum” (“The Pig War”).