Cornell sponsored Turkish academics Azat Gündoğan, a sociologist, and his wife, historian Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan, when they were threatened by their government.

Turkish political scientist Simten Coşar has found the freedom to write and do scholarship at Cornell.

Irene Sumbele, a medical parasitologist from war-torn Cameroon and visiting scientist with the Master of Public Health program at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar by the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF).

Artist Sharifa "Elja" Sharifi is one of the Afghan scholars and students who have found refuge at Cornell with support from many sources, from the Institute of International Education to generous Cornell alumni, including Nell Cady-Kruse '83, MBA '85.

Hozoori is an IIE Scholar Rescue Fund fellow and visiting scholar in the Einaudi Center's South Asia Program. Read about his journey to Cornell and work on campus.

Four dissident critics now living in exile in the United States will share their experiences at Dissidence: Exiled Writers on Resistance and Risk, a reading and reception on Friday, September 23.