Every year, around 2,000 Cornell students say a temporary goodbye to their lives in Ithaca – in pursuit of international experiences outside their comfort zone. 

Their time studying abroad gave graduating seniors Kevin Chang and Ana Hoffman Sole knowledge of new places, new skills and rich new communities. Now they’re looking ahead to career paths that build on what they learned.

Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator and United Nations ambassador Samantha Power challenged students to make the case for foreign aid and U.S. engagement abroad during the Bartels World Affairs Lecture on April 16.

A team of geophysicists from Cornell, Cameroon, and South Africa is using machine learning tools to unearth new information from earthquake data collected by Cornell 15 years ago—providing a lifeline for a scholar whose career was upended by conflict.

With wars unfolding in far-flung places from Ukraine to the Horn of Africa, Cornell faculty are joining with international collaborators at Cornell Global Hubs to understand the organized violence of modern war – and find ways for nations to act together to keep the peace.

The idea for a youth climate action project originated in 2023 during the Einaudi Center-led Mandela Washington Fellowship at Cornell.