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Cornell Global Hubs put scholars at the center of a transnational research network. At Hubs, international work is supported and seamless — so teams can focus on building their world-class collaborations and advancing shared research interests.

Joint Research Seed Grants

Joint seed awards from Cornell and Hubs partner universities support new and continuing collaborations to fast-track international research results. The 2024 Joint Research Seed Grants, awarded in December, will run from January 1 through December 31, 2025.

Cornell researchers: Find out about opportunities with Hubs partners.

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Hubs sustainability researchers in Ecuador
Faculty and students investigating sustainable development near Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador's Andean highlands.

Research Fast Facts

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Joint seed grants

$1.3M

Total seed grant funding

$180K

Follow-on for 3 teams

13 Cornell colleges and schools

participated in Hubs collaborations supported by joint seed grants in 2024.

 

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Growing Our Global Impact

Global Hubs welcomed four new joint seed grant partners in 2024, bringing the number of participating institutions to 11. Research teams made up of Cornell faculty and collaborators from partner institutions receive Cornell-partner matching funds to support their emerging research projects. Together, we launched 47 global collaborations in 2024!

View of Ahmedabad, site of India's first Heat Action Plan.

HEaTR for a Warming World

A climate collaboration with Hubs partners in India, the United Kingdom, Ghana, and Singapore, the Global Center for Household Energy and Thermal Resilience was launched with a joint seed grant and received a two-year $250K design grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, right, listens to Buz Barstow, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, describe how microbes can dissolve rocks to obtain rare earth elements. Credit: Jason Koski

Biomining with a Microbe-Mineral Atlas

A pathway to mining rare earth elements sustainably began with a Hubs joint seed grant to support collaboration with two UK partner universities and researchers in Japan and Canada. The atlas team is expanding its scope with a three-year $2 million NSF grant.

Group of people standing in front of a colorfully painted wall.

Migrations in Malta

Migrations experts at Cornell and UK Hubs partner Queen Mary University of London established a wide-ranging research and teaching collaboration with a seed grant–funded retreat held at QMUL’s Malta campus in 2023. They are currently preparing an SBE-UKRI research proposal.

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Natural History Field Note

Cornell's Alexander Flecker (CALS, A&S) and Ethan Duvall (CALS) were part of a team that published a peer-reviewed paper titled “Geophagy by a Large Herbivore Driven by a Human Sodium Supply” in BioTropica's May 2024 edition. Learn more about their research.


Recent Research Stories

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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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Rebecca Slayton, director of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, studies the role of uncertainty in the cyber threat security industry. Her new article won an award from the International Studies Association.

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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'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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Work and how it gets done is changing rapidly, and some knowledge-intensive jobs may be transformed or even replaced by smart technologies. How are governments, employers and workers responding? What are the options for limiting harm as AI use grows?

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Vice provost for international affairs Wendy Wolford and a Global Cornell delegation visited Asia in April. The trip began in Seoul, South Korea, for this year's Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference before the team traveled to India to meet with Cornell alumni and partners.

Funding from a 2022 Global Cornell International Cornell Curriculum (ICC) Development Grant provided Cornell and USFQ faculty the opportunity to pilot a bilateral exchange course.

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Cornell delegation enhances global ties with Global Hubs partner the University of Ghana, tackling education, public health, and climate change, fostering collaboration and cultural exchange.

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