Cornell researchers have the opportunity to take a long stride toward an alternative future full of possibility, with support from Global Cornell’s new Global Grand Challenge: The Future. 

Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces – the United States among them, finds a new analysis led by Cornell political scientists.

Gustavo Flores-Macías, professor of government, says the government and IMF “are more aligned now than they were in 2018, and Milei has the advantage of riding this honeymoon in international financial markets.”

Our partnership with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador is opening new doors for Cornell students studying public health. In 2023, for the first time, MPH students traveled to Ecuador to work with USFQ’s public health faculty and students on a variety of projects, ranging from interventions to address acute childhood malnutrition in southern Ecuador, to analysis of water contamination in households, agricultural fields, rivers, and lakes.

Five research projects that bring together academics from Queen Mary University of London and Cornell University will receive seed funding. 

“Coming here and looking at different cultures and everything really opened my mind, and it really helped me to think differently. Cornell really helps you to build your knowledge and be aware of your surroundings and the diversity in the world.”

Read President Pollack's commencement address in Chinese, Hindi, Korean, and Spanish.

Led by Migrations faculty Gunisha Kaur, associate professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, an intercampus collaboration aims to provide digital health care tools to pregnant refugee women with the support of a National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Catalyst Prize.

Vice Provost Wendy Wolford presented "The Elusive Plantation: Imagining Development in Mozambique" at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

After his family was forced to flee a government crackdown in Turkey, Florida State University sociologist Azat Gündoğan found a "lifeline" at Cornell as an International Institute of Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund fellow.