In the afternoon, the inaugural Cornell-China Forum was held in the Rosewood Hotel with 300 faculty, collaborators, alumni and friends. The Forum was designed to feature panels with participants from across the academy and industry, for dialogues on pressing challenges and important innovations in their fields and the potential for cross-sectoral collaboration and impact. Cornell President Martha Pollack kicked off the Forum with an address sharing examples of Cornell’s rich history of engagement, teaching, and research with China. “We are the only land-grant university within the Ivy League, and as such we have a mandate, which we take very seriously, to not just create and disseminate knowledge, but to do so for the public good,” she said. Read more in this Cornell Chronicle summary. 

Learn more about the Cornell China Center, which organized the event, here: https://chinacenter.cornell.edu/