Rachel Bezner Kerr, part of the Einaudi Center's "qualities of life" research team, contributes to a new cautionary report from the IPCC.

At a Cornell event Feb. 22 cosponsored by the Einaudi Center, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears intent on provoking a “horrific conflict.”

"The refugee resettlement program is overwhelmed and lacks resources because of all the cuts the prior administration made,” says Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

"(The shootings) are certainly something to keep an eye on. I don't mean to trivialize the gravity of what happened,” says Gustavo Flores-Macías, associate professor of government. “But there are tens of millions of people that visit Mexico every year … and these events, they are very shocking, but fortunately they're not particularly prevalent. This is still something that occurs very rarely.”

CNY Central shares the story about the nine Afghan women scholars studying at Cornell, along with an interview with three of the scholars. 

With support from a Cornell China Center seed grant, Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science, and doctoral student Ruidong Zhang have developed a silent-speech recognition device that can identify silent commands using images of skin deformation in the neck and face.

This year’s Lund Critical Debate, “Migration in the Age of Pandemics,” on February 16 explored ways to promote the best public health outcomes worldwide and protect human rights, as waves of people cross national borders.

Ithaca College's (IC) student paper covers the arrival of nine Afghan students to Ithaca and Cornell, including their time on the IC campus.

Cornell University Library launched an online collection of anti-nuke pioneer Randall Forsberg. The collection is the culmination of a project led by Einaudi faculty and visiting scholars in the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Every Sunday, Beth Lyon meets with a team of students to read xenophobic hate speech on Twitter. Their exploration of this dark corner of the internet is part of a project that aims to track anti-immigrant hate speech in real time.