The Cornell Board of Trustees today voted to appoint Michael I. Kotlikoff, who has served as interim president since July 2024, Cornell’s 15th president, effective immediately.

Sixty-three graduate students completed international fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. 

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is poised to make a difference on today’s global problems, says the center’s new director Ellen Lust. The key is the Einaudi community’s energy for collaboration.

Most pandemics in the past century were sparked by a pathogen jumping from animals to humans. This moment of zoonotic spillover is the focus of a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Raina Plowright, the Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Public and Ecosystem Health. 

Tom Garrett, Einaudi Center Lund Practitioner in Residence for fall 2024, brought real-world events and scenarios into classroom conversations, informed by his own decades of experience promoting democracy.