Howard Milstein welcome for Cornell-China Forum in Beijing (11/18/2019)

Howard Milstein welcomed participants with this video at the Cornell-China Forum held in Beijing, China on November 18, 2019.

Cornell University taught its first Mandarin class in 1870 and graduated its first Chinese student in 1901. That student went on to become China’s Ambassador to the United States and so began over 100 years of collaboration between Cornell and China. On November 18, 2019, Cornell University leaders, faculty, alumni, collaborators and friends celebrated this long history with two events in Beijing: an academic symposium that brought together Cornell researchers with university partners from across the country to discuss new research and potential collaborations, and a 5-hour Cornell-China Forum that featured cross-sectoral panels on four themes: Future Health Service and Health Tech; Food Safety and Digital Agriculture; Innovations for Future Urban Living; and Energy, Environment and Education.

Cornell-China Forum Illuminated the Value of Cross-Sector Collaboration

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/

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Howard Milstein welcome for Cornell-China Forum in Beijing (11/18/2019)

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