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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.
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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.
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Aminat Ibrahim is a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering from Ilorin, Nigeria. At Cornell, she studies the improvement of cardiovascular implant compatability.
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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.
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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.
A total of 3,681 first-year students and 603 transfers begin moving to campus on August 17, hailing from 49 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and 62 countries.
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In this New York Times op-ed, Mursal Rahim (MPA ’25) writes about fleeing Afghanistan and attending Cornell—an educational opportunity unavailable to women under Taliban rule.
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Global AI project lead Aditya Vashistha is among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. He will use his award to investigate how people share information and govern their communities in social media platforms designed for private groups.
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Divyanth Loganathan Girija is a doctoral student in biological and environmental engineering from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. He studies the development of intelligent robotic and AI-enabled systems for agriculture.
