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.

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.

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. 

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. 

“The impact on the micro-influencers and the mid-tier influencers is going to be much stronger. I see similar ripple effects both in the U.S. and in India,” says Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor of information science.

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.
 

Read Interim President Michael Kotlikoff's commencement address in Chinese, Hindi, Korean, and Spanish.

Even before she took office in 2019, Zarifa Ghafari – the youngest and one of the only female mayors to serve in Afghanistan – became a target of the Taliban. She survived multiple assassination attempts, and in 2020, her father was fatally shot outside his home.