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Byline: Megan DeMint

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Provided Hadley Flanagan shows off a Coolseat bench, raising the seat to show the compost system underneath.
Global Cornell

Global experiences advance student learning

Cornell Chronicle

Over 70 undergraduates learned career-shaping lessons in the field last summer with support from Global Cornell. Students will share their international work at the November 19 Global Cornell Experience Showcase.

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Eva Telesca (first row, black and white stripes) and fellow study abroad students visit the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research.
Global Cornell

Students to discuss navigating identities abroad

Cornell Chronicle

Panelists who have studied in countries ranging from Denmark to South Africa will speak about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race and identities that impacted them while abroad during an upcoming global freedom of expression event.

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Provided John Kennedy filming a documentary interview at the estuarine border between Mexico and Guatemala.
Community engagement

Fulbright-Hays awardees prioritize community-engaged discoveries

Cornell Chronicle

The competitive fellowships send PhD students abroad for up to 12 months to build on their language proficiency, engage with other cultures and complete significant dissertation research on global cultures and societies.

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Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
Global experiences

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

Cornell Chronicle

Four current Laidlaw scholars share their summer research or leadership in action experiences.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, president of Iceland, left, and Peter Katzenstein, the Einaudi Center’s Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
International politics

Iceland president: ‘Turn smallness into strength’

Cornell Chronicle

During a highlight of a two-day visit to Cornell, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson discussed his country’s commitment to peace, diversity and science-based climate solutions during a sold-out lecture held Nov. 10.

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Global Cornell

Migrations grants fund worldwide interdisciplinary projects

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.

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Provided Members of the Caribbean Students’ Association.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Caribbean studies finds home at Einaudi Center

Cornell Chronicle

In addition to changing its name, the program – celebrating its 60th year – has renewed and expanded its commitment to the study of the Caribbean cultures, places and people.

Global

Nyabola to speak at Race and Racism Across Borders event

Cornell Chronicle

Writer, activist and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola will discuss her upcoming book, Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move, as part of Global Cornell’s Race and Racism Across Borders webinar on April 12.

Migrations Initiative

Migrations grants to fund research on racism, dispossession

Cornell Chronicle

Proposals are due April 15 for a new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative, seeking to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession.