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News on Cornell Collaboration with Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan

Sunset at Zhejiang University’s international campus in Haining, China.

Global Cornell's Study Away program for international students who face COVID-19 visa or travel issues has built a Cornell community at sites like Zhejiang University and will continue in Spring 2021…

Phil Yuen ’00 with one of Aurabeat’s stand-alone air purifiers.

Phil Yuen ’00 and his Hong Kong company built and donated 30 air filtration systems to Cornell's Statler Hotel, currently used to house students in isolation because of COVID-19.

Study Away students at Peking University pose with their care packages

Cornell is supporting its international students currently distance learning from abroad through online events, its Study Away program, and care packages and plans new Global Hubs around the world.

Cornell Study Away students at ZJU - fall 2020

Cornell students participating in Study Away at Zhejiang University share thoughts on the opportunity.

Several students sitting on a wall

The article mentions Cornell giving Chinese students the option to study at top universities in China for the semester. A Cornell student who took the opportunity to study at Tsinghua University is interviewed.

Cornell seal red

This Xinhua news story describes how Chinese students who cannot return to campus in the United States are participating in Cornell's Study Away program.

ZJU and Cornell University agreement signing 2020

On September 3, Zhejiang University and Cornell University signed an agreement remotely and explored new ways to collaborate.

Zhejiang University international campus

The International Campus of Zhejiang University welcomed a cohort of incoming Chinese students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell for the fall of 2020.

Hong Kong City University students

Cornell students who are local Hong Kong residents can study at CityU and take CityU courses through Cornell's Study Abroad program.

Cornell seal red

In a potential breakthrough in wearable sensing technology, researchers from Cornell, UW-Madison, and China have designed a wrist-mounted device that tracks the entire human hand in 3D.

Cornell in Rome students walking

To support international students who cannot travel this fall, Cornell is offering opportunities to study at 16 partner institutions worldwide (many in China) while taking Cornell classes remotely.

The “Leading Cornell During the COVID-19 Pandemic” panel June 6, part of virtual Reunion. Clockwise from top left: Fred Van Sickle, vice president for alumni affairs and development; Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff; Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University; President Martha E. Pollack.

At Cornell's 2020 virtual reunion, President Martha Pollack thanked alumni in China who "helped secure and ship valuable N95 masks to Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca."

Wendy Wolford introduces the Global Grand Challenge initiative and its theme, “Migrations,” in 2019.

Vice Provost Wendy Wolford released a statement supporting and advocating for Cornell's Chinese and international community.

Qiwei (Alex) Li, Cornell M.Eng. 2019

Qiwei (Alex) Li (M.Eng. 2019) has founded a startup to develop a medical device to address chronic muscle pain: Dynein Health (Chinese: 动力因健康).

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which were the subject of a four-part webinar series hosted by Cornell University Library.

Cornell University Library held a webinar on 4/27/2020 on "Three Chinese Academic Libraries’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Outbreak" involving 142 librarians from United States, China, Canada, and Singapore.

Xiaofu Tu, 111 Inc.’s vice president of strategic sourcing, prepares supplies in Beijing for shipment. Gang Yu, M.S. ’86, founding chairman of Cornell’s China Advisory Board and executive chairman of 111 Inc., a health company in China, formed a team with members of his company to help procure medical supplies for medical professionals at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City who are treating COVID-19 patients.

Cornell alumni, parents and friends have helped source and deliver crucial equipment and supplies for medical professionals at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca.

“Immortal at the River,” a nearly 60-yard calligraphy scroll by Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, is on display at the Johnson Museum, and can be viewed online

“Immortal at the River,” a nearly 60-yard calligraphy scroll by Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, that is on display at the Johnson Museum and inspired a Cornell student dance, can now be viewed online.

Admussen poetry book cover

Cornell Asian Studies professor Nick Admussen has translated into English selections of Chinese poet and mathematician Ya Shi’s poetry in the newly published “Floral Mutter.”

Taiwanese calligraphy on display at the Johnson Art Museum

Students from the Department of Performing and Media Arts performed an original work inspired by Taiwanese calligrapher's Tong Yang-Tze’s Immortal at the River on display at Cornell's Johnson Art…

Salmonella cells proliferate in an agar plate.

Researchers from Cornell, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, and the University of Georgia have developed a method enabling salmonella testing faster and in labs closer to food processing plants.

As firms buy up land for apple orchards, former Chinese smallholders may find themselves working for wages on land they once farmed themselves.

New Cornell Center for Social Sciences faculty fellow Prof. John Zinda will collaborate with faculty from China and Cornell AgriTech to study apples, livelihoods, landscapes, and China’s…

The world is on the move, and Cornell faculty members are seeking answers to questions related to that movement with help from Cornell’s first Migrations grants, awarded by the Global Grand Challenge initiative through the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.

Cornell's Global Grand Challenge Migrations initiative awarded funds to a vet school team to host interdisciplinary workshops with researchers from Weill Medical, China and Hong Kong on new global infectious…

Chinese doctor wears mask in hospital

A Cornell-China research collaboration showed that hospital customer service impacted patient satisfaction more than medical quality or patient survival rates, and that consumer-driven health care creates…

China urban air pollution

Cornell Institute for China Economic Research: China's real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program changed household behavior and triggered more willingness to pay for housing in less-polluted areas.

At Prince William Sound in Alaska, purse seiners – fishing boats that use a wide net to capture schools of salmon – are moored waiting to make another catch.

A collaboration between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will fund three climate change studies, one on sustainable agricultural land…