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Nine PhD students from Imperial College London were placed at Cornell this summer—seven on the Cornell Ithaca campus and two at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. They partnered with Cornell professors and researchers as part of the Imperial Global Fellows Fund

“After the end of my internship, when I boarded my return flight, I carried home more than data and graphs. I brought back an understanding of what it means to do science as part of a truly global community, the confidence to work across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, and the memory of a summer where the challenge I feared most became the one I valued most.”

Mckenna Norton '25 spent a summer in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the inaugural Cornell-National Taiwan University Chinese Language Summer Program. 

 

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Queen Mary University of London and Cornell University have co-delivered the first joint Global Migration Spring School, held from 4 to 9 May at the Queen Mary Malta Campus in Gozo.

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A new study shows that when Indians and Americans used an AI writing assistant, their writing became more similar, mainly at the expense of Indian writing styles. Senior author on the paper Aditya Vashistha is funded by our Global Grand Challenge: The Future.

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Qi Wang, the Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, teams up with Andrew Hoskins from the University of Edinburgh on a new book, The Remaking of Memory in the Age of Internet and Social Media.

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Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural food sources, they sought food on agricultural lands. And when the animals’ diets changed, they shed more virus, increasing the virus’ spread to horses, as well as the risk to people.

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A study published in the Cambridge Journal of Regions by researchers from USFQ, Cornell University, and Penn State warns that we need to rethink the economic and social structure at a global level. 

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Cornell alumni, faculty, and global experts gathered in Guangzhou for the 2024 Cornell-China Forum to discuss sustainability, aging, future cities, and education.

Cornell's Language Resource Center catches up with Şebnem Özkan, director of Global Hubs, to learn what's new in Cornell's collaborative, interdisciplinary initiative with partners around the world.

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