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An international exhibit will run Sept. 24-28 on the Arts Quad, celebrating the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The exhibit is supported by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge.

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The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.

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They will conduct research, study, and teach English in Canada, France, Honduras, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway, and Taiwan.

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Nine PhD students from Imperial College London were placed at Cornell this summer—seven on the Cornell Ithaca campus and two at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. They partnered with Cornell professors and researchers as part of the Imperial Global Fellows Fund

Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor of information science at Cornell University, comments on Nepal's social media crackdown as part of a broader pattern of governments controlling online narratives.

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“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.”

“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.

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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.

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

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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. 

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