Cornell Chronicle
A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”
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Global Public Voices fellow Karim-Aly Kassam works with Indigenous and rural people to create community-specific ecological calendars that integrate local cultural systems with seasonal indicators.
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New program directors Ernesto Bassi (LACS), Mabel Berezin (IES), and Tom Pepinsky (SEAP) share their programs' plans for this academic year.
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Einaudi Center students and recent alumni joined faculty-led research last summer to reduce climate threats in Haiti, East Africa, and Tajikistan.
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As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan unfolded, Einaudi Center and Institute of Politics and Global Affairs events kept pace and brought Afghan and congressional national security experts to the campus conversation.
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A team of Cornell students and faculty and Ithaca schoolchildren will begin an archeological dig this weekend at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church. “We’re assisting St. James to tell its story,” said Gerard Aching, a Cornell Migrations task force member and professor of Africana and Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The Einaudi Center's newly renamed Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is expanding its Caribbean focus—thanks to a collaboration with Caribbean undergraduates.
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“Blue” hydrogen – an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas – is being lauded by many as a clean, green energy to help reduce global warming. But Cornell and Stanford University researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.
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Two new publications examining cassava flowering reveal insights into the genetic and environmental factors underpinning one of the world’s most critical food security crops.
