“Polls suggest Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva enjoys a sizable advantage and might avoid a second round of voting, but President Jair Bolsonaro has discredited the electoral process and blamed the media for an uneven playing field,” says Gustavo Flores-Macias, associate vice provost for international affairs. 

Scholars from Ghana, South Africa, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia , the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and the U.S. will present research at an Oct. 6-7 conference at the ILR School on labor market inequality for global migrants in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.

Cornell Global Hubs are expanding opportunities, providing infrastructure, and greasing the wheels for faculty, alumni, and students across the university to engage with 20 partner universities in 11 locations.

Nine Afghan undergraduates who fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021 have been admitted as Cornell students with full financial aid. Global Cornell has led a robust campus and community collaboration to bring the students to Cornell and support them as they adjust to campus life.

There’s a place in the world for every Cornell student. Undergraduate students across all colleges and majors will find study abroad programs worldwide to advance their academic and career goals, including opportunities at the new Cornell Global Hubs.   

Stephen Yale-Loehr, a Migrations faculty fellow, writes: "Since March 2020, approximately 900,000 people have been denied the ability to request asylum at all. They’re casualties of Title 42."

“The topics were so cutting edge, and with such a fantastic non-Western focus, they could be ripped from the headlines of any international newspaper,” said Alanna Kramerson, a Skaneateles High School history teacher.

In a Cornell China Center (CCC) webinar held on May 27, legal scholars based in China, Switzerland, and the United States surveyed artificial intelligence (AI) regulation across the world, identifying strategic similarities and local distinctions.

In 2022–23, 15 U.S. Student Program winners from Cornell will head out to host countries worldwide. The program is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge has awarded grants totaling more than $500,000 to support faculty research addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration.

Funded projects this cycle reflect the Migrations initiative’s interdisciplinary priorities of racism, dispossession and migration in the United States and international, multispecies migration.