“Although Afghanistan is situated in a high seismic zone, its vulnerability to earthquakes is affected by other factors,” Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah, a visiting scholar with the South Asia Program.

“After the end of my internship, when I boarded my return flight, I carried home more than data and graphs. I brought back an understanding of what it means to do science as part of a truly global community, the confidence to work across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, and the memory of a summer where the challenge I feared most became the one I valued most.”

Vice provost Wendy Wolford tells Inside Higher Ed that Cornell graduate students are having trouble getting their visas—or were simply concerned about coming to the U.S.

Kyrin Pollock, MEng '19, will work in Canada to investigate how industrial noise is transforming the sound of Arctic waters.

Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Ellen Lust, director of the Einaudi Center, speaks about the impacts at Cornell and to students across the country. 

Wendy Wolford, our vice provost for international affairs speaks to the New York Times about the biggest loss from the drop in international enrollment: talent.

“They’re literally some of the best in the world,” she said.

Nichole and Eric worked as research assistants at VinUni, where they were empowered to take on independent research projects. Eric conducted research on split federated learning, while Nichole focused on data pipeline architecture. Both topics are part of CEI’s Green Serverless Computing project – a computing model that aims to minimize environmental impact by optimizing resource usage and reducing carbon emissions.

Mckenna Norton '25 spent a summer in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the inaugural Cornell-National Taiwan University Chinese Language Summer Program. 

The Cornell Global AI Initiative—a Global Grand Challenge funded project—hosted a summit on issues of discrimination and bias found in AI tools like ChatGPT. 

On-again-off-again tariffs have disrupted the global trading system and caused whiplash for businesses and consumers, writes Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy in the Dyson School at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.