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Global Cornell

Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year

10/14/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.

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Government

Hubs grant launches AI collaboration, new proposals due Oct. 4

8/27/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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’s Global Hubs initiative. This year’s cycle of Global Hubs seed grants recently opened.

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Global Cornell

Einaudi seed grants grow international collaborations

5/10/2024 Global Cornell

A new round of Einaudi Center seed grants will help faculty from across Cornell, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, tackle issues ranging from drone-assisted healthcare delivery for migrants to sustainable infrastructure design for Ukraine.

Three ponds reflect trees and sky — A. Flecker/Cornell University Aquaculture ponds near Iquitos, Peru, July 2022

International studies

Einaudi seed grants finding fertile soil

5/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.

Jonathan Miller/Provided Khadija Monis ’24 completed an internship at the Ithaca Doula Access Initiative.

Global Cornell

Afghan students – now Cornellians – look to future

9/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Einaudi Center

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

10/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

International research

Six on faculty receive Einaudi Center grants for international work

12/4/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded seed grants to three faculty members to support new collaborative research efforts on international topics, and small grants to three more to help fund conferences, workshops or other activities.

Asian studies

Conference considers a global plant steeped in meaning

10/16/2018 Cornell Chronicle

It is the centerpiece of one of the world’s 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.

Graduate students

Six grad students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

10/10/2018 Cornell Chronicle

It was late September when Cornell’s 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.

Latin American Studies Program

Grant expands undergrad offerings on Latin America and Caribbean

10/10/2018 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Campus events

‘Paths to Peace’ explores legacy of antiwar campaigner

8/20/2018 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Interdisciplinary studies

‘Collaboratory’ shares ideas on food, healing, justice

6/15/2018 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Anthropology

Enhanced e-book calls for public interaction with central banking

6/1/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment for the world’s central banks and their central bankers. Long seen as old boys’ clubs of bland technocrats, they suddenly found themselves in newspaper headlines and the speeches of populist politicians. The debates were not about standard central banking fare – tweaking interest rates to manage inflation – but equality, fairness and democracy.

Economics

Law/economics initiative takes on big questions at kickoff conference

4/23/2018 Cornell Chronicle

For most of human history, nearly everyone lived in precarious conditions – their lives, in the words of the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

Interdisciplinary

Einaudi Center travel grants to send 100 graduate students packing

3/27/2018 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Law and economics initiative launches with NYC event

3/22/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The initiative connects economists, legal experts and other scholars with leading thinkers in government, international development, civil society and the private sector.

Government & History

Cornell, Yale scholars to debate role of law in preventing war

2/22/2018 Cornell Chronicle

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, “Can War Be Prevented by Law?,” March 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.

Anthropology

Anthropology grad students receive Fulbright-Hays fellowships

10/27/2017 Cornell Chronicle

Two Cornell anthropology graduate students will conduct their fieldwork overseas with support from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program. Alexandra G. Dalferro and Rebekah M. Cirbassi are among 91 students nationwide who received the prestigious award this year.

Anthropology

For anthropologist, doll exchange is not child's play

10/16/2017 Cornell Chronicle

Hirokazu Miyazaki doesn’t usually get his research ideas from his son. But last year, after reading a children’s book about an exchange of dolls among Japanese and American schoolchildren in the 1920s, then-10-year-old Xavier asked his father to investigate.

Global Cornell

Cornell provides refuge for scholars under threat

8/15/2017 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell works with several organizations that protect academics threatened by violence or persecution.

Science & Technology studies

Working group: Give citizens say in nuclear accident plans

6/15/2017 Cornell Chronicle

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’s relationship with nuclear weapons programs.

Anthropology

Einaudi Center launches dissertation development program

2/17/2017 Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies 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).