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.

Over 70 undergraduates learned career-shaping lessons in the field last summer with support from Global Internships and the Laidlaw Scholars Program. Hear more about their experiences at the Nov. 19 Global Cornell Experience Showcase. 

Global Cornell welcomed almost 100 representatives from 18 international Global Hubs partner institutions to London for the second network meeting, co-hosted by King's College London. Participants came together to exchange ideas and pave the way for collaborations and engagement to build a better world.

 

At the IIE-SRF Forum in Brussels, Nishi Dhupa presented a partnership model developed by Cornell and IIE-SRF to offer funding and professional resources to Ukrainian scholars undertaking IIE-SRF fellowships in Eastern Europe.

Pedro X. Molina joined a panel at Syracuse's new Institute for Democracy Journalism and Citizenship In Washington, DC, to discuss democracy, journalism, citizenship, and cartooning (timestamp: 1:11).

Prakhar Singhania's Cold Bank food storage system took the top prize in the BIG Idea Competition. Singhania is an undergraduate exchange student from Global Hubs partner Ashoka University studying supply chain, food science, and material science.