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Muna Ndulo, right, speaks as Chris Barrett, left, and moderator Paul Kaiser listen at the Einaudi Center鈥檚 Lund Critical Debate.
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Faculty members discussed the value of international aid in the wake of the Trump administration鈥檚 policy that froze foreign assistance.
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Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking 鈥渟uper election鈥 year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.
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What are the options for limiting harm to workers as AI use grows? This is one of the questions government professor Isabel Perera and a network of international colleagues are tackling in a research collaboration launched with a seed grant from Global Cornell鈥檚 Global Hubs initiative. This year鈥檚 cycle of Global Hubs seed grants recently opened.
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A new round of Einaudi Center seed grants will help faculty from across Cornell, including three from the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频, tackle issues ranging from drone-assisted healthcare delivery for migrants to sustainable infrastructure design for Ukraine.
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Aquaculture ponds near Iquitos, Peru, July 2022
Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.
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Khadija Monis 鈥24 completed an internship at the Ithaca Doula Access Initiative.
Nine Afghan undergraduates from Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021, arriving in Ithaca four months later.
Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell鈥檚 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
The聽Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies聽has awarded聽seed grants聽to three faculty members to support new collaborative research efforts on international topics, and聽small grants聽to three more to help fund conferences, workshops or other activities.聽
It is the centerpiece of one of the world鈥檚 subtlest rituals. It is swilled by thirsty workers at truck stops and construction sites. It is a pick-me-up and a sign of refinement, a bracing tonic and a sugary treat. It is sold in hawker stalls and high-end shops, often on the same city block. It is, after water, the most popular drink on the planet. It is, of course, tea.
It was late September when Cornell鈥檚 Fulbright adviser, David Holmberg, learned that six of his advisees had won Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education. This was out of just 100 fellowships awarded nationwide.Unfortunately, Holmberg also learned that the winners had three days to submit their signed paperwork or they would lose their awards.
Political upheaval. Environmental change. Technological innovation. Economic turmoil. Social movements. Refugee crises. Vibrant cultures. Emerging threats to public health.For years, Cornell faculty and graduate students have immersed themselves in these topics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
On June 12, 1982, an estimated one million people marched through the streets of New York City to protest the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. They had a simple proposition: immediately freeze the development and deployment of nuclear weapons. Then, they argued, we can begin the hard work of eliminating them altogether.
The wrap-up session for the inaugural meeting of the Ecological Learning Collaboratory was not your typical academic exercise.In a sunlit room at Carl Becker House, 16 people danced to songs in Swahili (from Tanzania), Tumbuka (from Malawi), and Tamil (from southern India). As each song ended, the group erupted in shouts and raucous laughter.
鈥 The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment for the world鈥檚 central banks and their central bankers. Long seen as old boys鈥 clubs of bland 鈥 The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment for the 鈥 divides that separate experts and nonexperts, government officials and civil society.鈥 She provides several 鈥
For most of human history, nearly everyone lived in precarious conditions 鈥 their lives, in the words of the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, 鈥渟olitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.鈥
Zhiyu Gong (linguistics) will travel to China to record some of the last remaining speakers of the critically endangered Daur language. Kara Fikrig (entomology) will go to Colombia to study the feeding habits of mosquitoes that carry dengue fever and other diseases. Ali Abbas (applied economics and management) will spend time in Pakistan exploring collusion between citizens and the state in the property tax market.
The initiative connects economists, legal experts and other scholars with leading thinkers in government, international development, civil society and the private sector.
Is the pen really mightier than the sword? Specifically, do laws and treaties have the power to stop armed conflicts before they begin? That is the question on the table at the next Einaudi Center Lund Debate, 鈥淐an War Be Prevented by Law?,鈥 March 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.
Two Cornell anthropology graduate students will conduct their fieldwork overseas with support from the聽Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad聽program. Alexandra G. Dalferro and Rebekah M. Cirbassi are among 91 students nationwide who received the prestigious award this year.
Hirokazu Miyazaki doesn鈥檛 usually get his research ideas from his son. But last year, after reading a children鈥檚 book about an exchange of dolls among Japanese and American schoolchildren in the 1920s, then-10-year-old Xavier asked his father to investigate.
As nations search for ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the long-simmering debate over nuclear power has heated up. Nuclear advocates, opponents and governments argue over nearly every aspect of the technology, from the cost of construction to the challenge of waste storage to the industry鈥檚 relationship with nuclear weapons programs.
The聽Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies聽will lead a campuswide effort to help doctoral students strengthen their dissertation research proposals with a new grant from the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC).