International students are a vital and enriching presence on any campus, writes Rachel Riedl, professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences, in a New York Times op-ed. But over the past few months, current and prospective international students have felt increasingly unwelcome in this country.
“Fear and anxiety have begun to alter campus life,” Riedl writes in the piece, co-authored with Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired professor of the practice at Cornell Law School. “At risk are the very concept of a university as a meeting point for intellectual thought from around the world and U.S. global leadership in higher education.”
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From left, Xi Yang, PhD '10, senior lecturer of finance in the SC Johnson College of Business; Christine Ye; Christine Ye Award recipient Margaret E. Foster, doctoral candidate in communication; Cornelia Ye Award recipient Naman Agrawal, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and behavior; Cornelia Ye; and Derina Samuel, associate director of graduate student development at the Center for Teaching Innovation.
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD 1856 b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is 7 times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. WD 1856 b has methane and hazes in its atmosphere, which would give it a similar color to Saturn's moon Titan. The white dwarf formed from a star that died 5 billion years ago, and has been cooling ever since, giving it an orange colour similar to the Sun.
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Dressed in clean-room suits, the Warrior-Scholar Project’s STEM boot camp cohort toured the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
