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Beyond Borders highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements in international activities going back to its founding. This collection of fifty-eight short chapters reflects the diversity, accomplishments, and impact of remarkable engagements on campus and abroad. These vignettes, many written by authors who played pivotal roles in Cornell's international history, take readers around the world to China and the Philippines with agricultural researchers, to Peru with anthropologists, to Qatar and India with medical practitioners, to Eastern Europe with economists…mehr
Beyond Borders highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements in international activities going back to its founding. This collection of fifty-eight short chapters reflects the diversity, accomplishments, and impact of remarkable engagements on campus and abroad.
These vignettes, many written by authors who played pivotal roles in Cornell's international history, take readers around the world to China and the Philippines with agricultural researchers, to Peru with anthropologists, to Qatar and India with medical practitioners, to Eastern Europe with economists and civil engineers, to Zambia and Sierra Leone with students and Peace Corps volunteers, and to many more places. Readers also will learn about Cornell's many international dimensions on campus, including the international studies and language programs and the library and museum collections. Beyond Borders captures how-by educating generations of global citizens, producing innovative research and knowledge, building institutional capacities, and forging mutually beneficial relationships-Cornell University has influenced positive change in the world.
Beyond Borders was supported by CAPE (Cornell Academics and Professors Emeriti).
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Autorenporträt
Royal D. Colle is Professor Emeritus of Communication at Cornell. He has worked around the world on projects with WHO, the World Bank, FAO, and the Ford Foundation. Heike Michelsen was Director of Programming at Cornell's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. She was a Senior Research Officer at the International Service for National Agricultural Research. Elaine D. Engst is Cornell University Archivist Emerita. She worked as Director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Cornell University Library. Corey Ryan Earle is a Visiting Lecturer in the American Studies Program at Cornell University, teaching Cornell history. He works with Alumni Affairs and Development.
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Introduction 1. A Pioneering International Program: The Cornell-NankingStory 2. A World of Knowledge for a World of Good 3. uilding the Foundations of a Campus-Wide InterdisciplinaryEast Asia Program 4. The Southeast Asia Program: Global Cornell from theBeginning 5. A Center of the Periphery: The South Asia Program 6. The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Understanding: Cornell'sLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program 7. The Institute of European Studie: A History of Stability andChange 8. Creating Connections with Africa: Cornell's Institute forAfrican Development 9. Title VI Grants to Cornell: A Demonstration of Strength inInternational Studies 10. Launching Peace Studies at Cornell: The Air War in Indochina 11. The Study of Muslim Culture, Society, and History around theWorld: The Comparative Muslim Societies Program 12. The Bartels World Affairs Fellows: Bringing theInternationally Distinguished to Cornel 13. Institutionalized Internationalizatio: International Programsin CALS 14. Over Fifty Years of Teaching "Agriculture in the DevelopingNations" 15. CIIFAD: Unique Funding for Collaborative Approaches toInternational Development 16. Transforming Global Rice Production: The System of RiceIntensification (SRI) 17. Institution Building Abroad: Cornell in the Philippines 18. The Last Shangri La 19. Bt Eggplant: Improving Lives with Biotechnology 20. Cornell Expands the Digital World: CommunicationTechnology Abroad 21. After the Berlin Wall: Cornell in Post-Socialist Europe 22. A Cornell-Japan Partnership:: The Food Industry Connection 23. The Cornell Humphrey Program: A Catalyst for Cooperationand Understanding 24. The Tang Cornell-China Scholars Program: Connecting withCALS 25. Applied Anthropology in the Andes: The Cornell-Peru Project 26. Southeast Asian Languages and the Birth of Modern LanguageStudies at Cornell 27. African Studies at Cornell: An Insurgent Discipline 28. Engineering Solutions to Worldwide Water ManagementIssues 29. Global Hospitality: The Hotel School's International Legacy 30. Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer: Relief Efforts inBelgium 31. Feeding the World: International Nutrition at Cornell 32. John P. Windmuller and ILR's Global Experience 33. Cornell Engages Emerging Markets Around the World 34. Global Awareness and Commitments of Cornell's LawSchool 35. "Don't Forget the Horse Doctor": Veterinary medicine'sInternational Legacy 36. Weill Cornell Medicine: A Medical Campus Reaching Acrossthe World 37. Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar: Excellence Grown from Sand 38. Cornell International Education Network: A Home forInternational Educators 39. Exploring Our World: Cornell Expeditions 40. Global Connections Bring Asian Art to the Herbert F. JohnsonMuseum of Art 41. Asia Collections in the Cornell University Library 42. The Fiske Icelandic Collection: Facets of an Enduring LiteraryGem 43. Mann Library Providing Global Access to ScholarlyInformation 44. Returning Mushrooms to China: Seventy Years ofSafekeeping 45. The Strong Foundations of Cornell-China Relationships 46. A Great School Faces the Great War 47. Hu Shih: Forging a US-China Alliance 48. Building Medical Capacity in India: The Legacy of IdaScudder 49. Sending Students Overseas: The History of Cornell Abroad 50. Supporting the Global Community: International Student andScholar Services 51. Cornell at the Palazzo: The Cornell in Rome Program 52. The Cornell Nepal Study Program 53. Expanding Horizons: Veterinary Students Explore TheirProfession and the World 54. Cornell and the Peace Corps: A Valuable Partnership 55. Above All Nations is Humanity: The Cornell Cosmopolitan Club 56. Providing a Home for a Global Community: The HollandInternational Living Center 57. Performing Around the World: Cornell's MusicalAmbassadors 58. Track and Field and The Transatlantic Series 59. Conclusions
Introduction 1. A Pioneering International Program: The Cornell-NankingStory 2. A World of Knowledge for a World of Good 3. uilding the Foundations of a Campus-Wide InterdisciplinaryEast Asia Program 4. The Southeast Asia Program: Global Cornell from theBeginning 5. A Center of the Periphery: The South Asia Program 6. The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Understanding: Cornell'sLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program 7. The Institute of European Studie: A History of Stability andChange 8. Creating Connections with Africa: Cornell's Institute forAfrican Development 9. Title VI Grants to Cornell: A Demonstration of Strength inInternational Studies 10. Launching Peace Studies at Cornell: The Air War in Indochina 11. The Study of Muslim Culture, Society, and History around theWorld: The Comparative Muslim Societies Program 12. The Bartels World Affairs Fellows: Bringing theInternationally Distinguished to Cornel 13. Institutionalized Internationalizatio: International Programsin CALS 14. Over Fifty Years of Teaching "Agriculture in the DevelopingNations" 15. CIIFAD: Unique Funding for Collaborative Approaches toInternational Development 16. Transforming Global Rice Production: The System of RiceIntensification (SRI) 17. Institution Building Abroad: Cornell in the Philippines 18. The Last Shangri La 19. Bt Eggplant: Improving Lives with Biotechnology 20. Cornell Expands the Digital World: CommunicationTechnology Abroad 21. After the Berlin Wall: Cornell in Post-Socialist Europe 22. A Cornell-Japan Partnership:: The Food Industry Connection 23. The Cornell Humphrey Program: A Catalyst for Cooperationand Understanding 24. The Tang Cornell-China Scholars Program: Connecting withCALS 25. Applied Anthropology in the Andes: The Cornell-Peru Project 26. Southeast Asian Languages and the Birth of Modern LanguageStudies at Cornell 27. African Studies at Cornell: An Insurgent Discipline 28. Engineering Solutions to Worldwide Water ManagementIssues 29. Global Hospitality: The Hotel School's International Legacy 30. Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer: Relief Efforts inBelgium 31. Feeding the World: International Nutrition at Cornell 32. John P. Windmuller and ILR's Global Experience 33. Cornell Engages Emerging Markets Around the World 34. Global Awareness and Commitments of Cornell's LawSchool 35. "Don't Forget the Horse Doctor": Veterinary medicine'sInternational Legacy 36. Weill Cornell Medicine: A Medical Campus Reaching Acrossthe World 37. Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar: Excellence Grown from Sand 38. Cornell International Education Network: A Home forInternational Educators 39. Exploring Our World: Cornell Expeditions 40. Global Connections Bring Asian Art to the Herbert F. JohnsonMuseum of Art 41. Asia Collections in the Cornell University Library 42. The Fiske Icelandic Collection: Facets of an Enduring LiteraryGem 43. Mann Library Providing Global Access to ScholarlyInformation 44. Returning Mushrooms to China: Seventy Years ofSafekeeping 45. The Strong Foundations of Cornell-China Relationships 46. A Great School Faces the Great War 47. Hu Shih: Forging a US-China Alliance 48. Building Medical Capacity in India: The Legacy of IdaScudder 49. Sending Students Overseas: The History of Cornell Abroad 50. Supporting the Global Community: International Student andScholar Services 51. Cornell at the Palazzo: The Cornell in Rome Program 52. The Cornell Nepal Study Program 53. Expanding Horizons: Veterinary Students Explore TheirProfession and the World 54. Cornell and the Peace Corps: A Valuable Partnership 55. Above All Nations is Humanity: The Cornell Cosmopolitan Club 56. Providing a Home for a Global Community: The HollandInternational Living Center 57. Performing Around the World: Cornell's MusicalAmbassadors 58. Track and Field and The Transatlantic Series 59. Conclusions
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