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Trustee Martin Tang '70 has sponsored the Tang International Scholarships Challenge, and advocates increasing the aid available to international students.

Photo slideshow of the January 2009 International Agriculture and Rural Development 602 field course trip to India. Students received an up-close look at farming techniques and business practices.

"Traveling with AguaClara:" Cornell Chronicle writer Anne Ju and photographer Lindsay France document the work of engineering students building water-purification systems in Honduras

Professor Emeritus Norm Uphoff speaks Oct. 23, 2008 on "Meeting world food needs by raising the productivity of land, labor, capital and water" (opportunities indicated by the System of Rice Intensification

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and 2001 World Food Prize laureate, speaks on "High food prices and food riots: Is the global food crisis here to stay?"

A combined video lecture and slideshow of students enrolled in the College of Human Ecology/Hong Kong Polytechnic University exchange program, "Between Heaven and Earth: Experiences in Hong Kong"

LR up Close: Global Service Learning:" How a South Africa internship of ILR students Rachel Einstein '10 and Eddie Rooker '10 focused on employment for people with disabilities

What We Expect from America: A Saudi Perspective. Prince Turki Al-Faisal, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States from 2005 to 2007, spoke about U.S.-Saudi relations on April 23, 2009 in Statler Auditorium. (1:40)

Art historian and curator Dr. Charles Merewether discusses the need for the creation of a public sphere for art in the regions of Asia and the Pacific. (1:32)

As part of International Education Week, four Cornellians shared time with several dozen prospective Cornell students in Kolkata, India, Nov. 20 via a videoconference in Weill Hall.

CALS News reports on "Fighting for food security: Experts gather to battle what rust," a slideshow on the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project, a global partnership to battle an aggressive disease that threatens to destroy vast amounts of the world's wheat crops.

Darwin Days: Evolution and Race. Dr. Warren Allmon, Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology and director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), leads a panel discussion on the role of evolution in race. (1:13)

Darwin Days: Evolution and the Life Sciences. Darwin Days, Evolution and Life Sciences. Provost for Life Sciences Steve Kresovich leads a panel discussion about the effects of cutting edge technologies on evolutionary research in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.

Witness: The Willard Straight Hall Takeover. In a series of compelling testimonials, Ithaca city residents recall local life before April 19, 1969Ñwhen African American students took over Cornell's student union, Willard Straight HallÑthe events that led up to the takeover, and the aftermath. (29 minutes)

Can creativity be taught? Is it the role of the arts in a liberal arts environment to undertake this responsibility if it can be taught? Should all Cornell students be required to experience their own creative resources at least once before they graduate? Professors David Feldshuh and Steven Stucky discussed these and other questions Oct. 18, 2008 at the Statler Hotel Amphitheater. (1:03)