Aditya Vashistha explores how AI affects historically marginalized communities and what it takes to build more equitable and inclusive technologies.

A recent Cornell College of Engineering graduate reflects on language immersion, cultural connection, and his experience with the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program.

The Cornell chapter of Kalaniyot, a national faculty-led initiative focused on sustaining international academic collaboration by bringing scholars from Israel to Cornell, launched at a reception Oct. 19.

The two-year Laidlaw scholars program supports undergraduates as they become globally minded researchers and ethical leaders. Administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Laidlaw program at Cornell has trained 80 students since 2021. Applications opened this week for first- and second-year students interested in joining the next cohort. 

Overworked teachers in southern India have a new tool for educating their students: Shiksha Copilot, an AI system that generates culturally relevant lesson plans for schools with few resources.

Mursal Rahim's journey from Afghanistan to the U.S.—and eventually to Cornell—was recently chronicled in The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America.

Cornell faculty are invited to apply for Global Hubs Research Seed Grants by Oct. 14 to launch new international collaborations with researchers at Global Hubs partner universities.

Aminat Ibrahim is a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering from Ilorin, Nigeria. At Cornell, she studies the improvement of cardiovascular implant compatability. 

As U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the New York Times undertook the task of bringing 124 people associated with the company out of Kabul to start new lives in America. One of them, Cornell alum Mursal Rahim, joins TODAY to detail fleeing the Taliban and share an update five years after leaving their home behind.

Imperial Global Fellows—PhD students from Imperial College London—partnered with Cornell faculty to work on summer research on the Cornell Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.