Nine Afghan undergraduates who fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021 have been admitted as Cornell students with full financial aid. Global Cornell has led a robust campus and community collaboration to bring the students to Cornell and support them as they adjust to campus life.

A visiting critic in the Institute for European Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Dmitry Bykov will be in residence for one to two years, engaging with Cornell faculty and students and completing several writing projects.

The nine undergrads will be arriving on campus through December, thanks to robust international and cross-campus collaborations. Cornell has pledged support until they graduate.

Visiting critic and award-winning political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina joined LACS this fall as a visiting critic and IIE-Artist Protection Fund fellow.

Irene Sumbele, a medical parasitologist from war-torn Cameroon and visiting scientist with the Master of Public Health program at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar by the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF).

Turkish political scientist Simten Coşar has found the freedom to write and do scholarship at Cornell.

Cornell sponsored Turkish academics Azat Gündoğan, a sociologist, and his wife, historian Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan, when they were threatened by their government.