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

An international team identified genes helping peaches and their wild relatives to tolerate stress and adapt to climate change.
While critics claim environmental regulations hurt productivity and profits, this economics collaboration with China showed that the reality is more nuanced.

Global Development professor Jack Zinda studies how people adapt to China’s environmental conservation and reforestation programs.

This video chronicles a planned Asian Summer Garden with pavilion, rain garden, pergola, and lotus garden will showcase trees, flowers, and plants and highlight their importance in East Asian cultures.
Researchers in 18 countries including China showed that different countries reacted to the pandemic with different policies, resulting in widely varied public health and economic outcomes.

Architect Martin Miller discusses the fast pace of working on projects in China, collaboration and creativity, digital design tools and his advice to students.

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 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.

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

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.

On September 3, Zhejiang University and Cornell University signed an agreement remotely and explored new ways to collaborate.
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.
Cornell students who are local Hong Kong residents can study at CityU and take CityU courses through Cornell's Study Abroad program.

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.

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.

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."

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

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).
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.

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, that is on display at the Johnson Museum and inspired a Cornell student dance, can now be viewed online.

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.”

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…
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.