Nine projects, many multidisciplinary, are receiving grants of approximately $155,000 this year from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
Researchers at Cornell and Bar-Ilan Universities have uncovered a new mechanism for mutation in primates that is rare but rapid, site-specific and aggressive.
New research by anthropologist Saida Hodzic challenges the idea that cutting is intractable and analyzes what happens when such a practice ends. Her focus is on Ghanaian anti-cutting activists.
Tanzania recently became a partner of the Cornell-affiliated Next Generation Cassava Breeding project, joining Nigeria and Uganda in the effort to improve cassava breeding in Africa.
Crop breeders in developing countries can access free tools to accelerate breeding crop varieties due to a collaboration among GOBII project at Cornell, the Boyce Thompson Institute and others.
Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya researching elite runners to learn how a group of people from a small corner of East Africa could rise to become the most dominant athletes in the world.
Journalist and author Raza Rumi, resident writer at Ithaca City of Asylum, fled Pakistan after an assassination attempt two years ago and will give a talk on campus April 5, "Pakistan's Battle Against Violent Extremism."