Dr. Irene Sumbele joined the MPH Program as a visiting scholar in 2019, coming to Cornell from the conflict zone of Cameroon as an Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow. Last year, she was named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar for her work in “pursuing health equity…
Growing up in South Africa, Anke Kotze was aware of public health crises every day. Droughts and fires, HIV and tuberculosis epidemics, rationed electricity, and a failing healthcare system shaped her worldview. “I realized I was in a position to make change,” reflects Kotze, who came to Cornell to learn…
In late spring of 2020, after campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group formed at Cornell to plan for the potential reopening of campus in the fall. “Reopening was predicated on understanding behavioral surveillance data,” says emergency preparedness and response expert Dr. Isaac Weisfuse, adjunct faculty with…
Provided Etinosa Obanor, representing global youth constituencies, addresses the high-level segment at COP23 on Nov. 16. On the world stage, Etinosa Obanor ’18 minced no words. Representing global youth constituencies at the high-level segment at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, Nov. 6-17, the student delivered a…
More than 40 student teams gathered Nov. 3 to present their experiences with global and public health learning as part of the Global and Public Health Experiential Learning Symposium, hosted by the Cornell Global Health Program and its Student Advisory Board. Held in Martha van Rensselaer Commons, the teams used…
Postdoctoral researcher Christine Yao-Yun Chang measures photosynthesis in a soy field near Musgrave Research Farm. When it comes to measuring photosynthesis, green is not all that counts. A Cornell researcher is using a NASA satellite to measure photosynthesis in high resolution at the global scale, advancing how we measure plant…
Bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. How have systems of communication evolved among the great apes? How did language arise? How can humans and apes best communicate? Oct. 20-21, Cornell will host a transdisciplinary workshop on apes, language and communication to explore these and other questions. “The Eloquence of…
On the heels of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a new Cornell study finds that climate-science labels do matter. The U.S. public doubts the existence of “global warming” more than it doubts “climate change” – and Republicans are driving the…
By tagging a cell’s proteins with fluorescent beacons, Cornell researchers have found out how E. coli bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics and other poisons. Probably not good news for the bacteria. When undesirable molecules show up, the bacterial cell opens a tunnel though its outer membrane and “effluxes,” or pumps…
With the world facing a vast array of food and nutrition security challenges that pose significant humanitarian, environmental and national security risks, a national commission that included leaders from Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) announced May 16 a comprehensive, coordinated effort to solve these problems. The Challenge of…