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From snorkeling off the coast of New Zealand to sharing tapas in Seville to biking through Bologna, Cornell students are finding that studying abroad offers more than just credits — it offers perspective.
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Vice provost Wendy Wolford discusses the long–lasting impact of visa uncertainty on international students: “How do you recruit the best and the brightest…when there’s an increasing perception of the U.S. as a highly unpredictable landscape for international students?”
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The Brooks Global Policy Exchange is a reciprocal global learning experience that connects Cornell students with their peers at Global Hubs partner universities like USFQ.
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An international exhibit will run Sept. 24-28 on the Arts Quad, celebrating the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The exhibit is supported by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge.
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The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.
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They will conduct research, study, and teach English in Canada, France, Honduras, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway, and Taiwan.
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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.
Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor of information science at Cornell University, comments on Nepal's social media crackdown as part of a broader pattern of governments controlling online narratives.
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“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.”
“Although Afghanistan is situated in a high seismic zone, its vulnerability to earthquakes is affected by other factors,” Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah, a visiting scholar with the South Asia Program.