The Essentials

Julie Burns MPA ’03, Ph.D. ‘11, recently became the Peace Corps’ country director in Guinea. Burns directed wilderness programs and risk management at Cornell Outdoor Education and has worked for African NGOs. This week in Washington, former Peace Corps volunteer Ed Pettitt ’05, who served in Botswana 2006-09, will escort five members of the Botswanan [...]

In 2010, 55 Cornell graduates served in the Peace Corps, which ranks Cornell in the top five colleges and universities with between 5,001 and 15,000 undergraduates, according to the corps’ 2011 rankings. Cornell offers a Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) degree in 15 disciplines in agriculture and the life sciences in which the student spends [...]