Afghan visual artist and scholar Sharifa “Elja” Sharifi fled Afghanistan in September 2021, a month after the Taliban seized control. She found a new beginning at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, where she has been able to continue her work over the past two years.

Vice provost for international affairs Wendy Wolford and a Global Cornell delegation visited Asia in April. The trip began in Seoul, South Korea, for this year's Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference before the team traveled to India to meet with Cornell alumni and partners.

Funding from a 2022 Global Cornell International Cornell Curriculum (ICC) Development Grant provided Cornell and USFQ faculty the opportunity to pilot a bilateral exchange course.

McKenzie Carrier ’24, a Laidlaw scholar and undergraduate Migrations scholar, and Margot Treadwell ’24, an international relations minor, will both be assigned to the endowment’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance program.

"Cornell’s international students and scholars bring global cultures, diverse perspectives and immense intellectual energy to campus," said Martha E. Pollack.

With many Cornell alumni coming from the Asia-Pacific region, Pollack visited Seoul, South Korea, for the university's 2024 Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference between April 5 and 7.

This year's Lund debate panelists, journalist Kate Aronoff and security expert Joshua Busby, look at climate justice issues through different lenses. In a conversation on April 11, they'll discuss how global efforts to respond to climate change can promote greater equity and make life better for the most vulnerable individuals, groups, and nations.  

Newly admitted students represent 107 countries outside the United States, plus all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico. Welcome, #Cornell2028!

Afghan scholar Tawab Danish spoke at an event hosted by Einaudi's South Asia Program titled Hazaras and Shias: Violence, Discrimination, and Exclusion Under Taliban Rule. "We should use sanctions to force the Taliban to sit at the negotiation table. Otherwise, they have the power," said Danish.

Students and faculty from India have made Cornell their Ivy League university for more than a century. Today, Global Hubs partners, deep learning and research collaborations, and 1,600 alumni continue to bring Cornell and India together.

Four undergraduate student panelists spoke about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race, and identities that impacted them while abroad at a global freedom of expression event.