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.

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.

A Nov. 8 symposium honored the immigration law scholar. Yale-Loehr's research and service shaped the Migrations initiative, now an Einaudi program.

“Houston highlights how immigrant rights can be advanced in a place resistant to change,” writes Shannon Gleeson in a new coauthored book.