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“There aren’t many animal migrations of large, charismatic species that are still totally unknown, but that was the case for southern giant hummingbirds. We wanted to finally solve this mystery,” says Jessie Williamson, postdoctoral fellow at the Lab of Ornithology.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says the Biden administration is between “a rock and a hard place.
From a sociologist accused of treason to a political cartoonist to an Afghan artist, displaced scholars fleeing conflicts in their home countries have found refuge at Cornell, which has hosted more Institute of International Education scholar and artist fellows than any other university in the world.
Ian Davies, extension support specialist, notes that he is in Bear Divide to observe bird migration.
María Cristina García, professor of history, notes that Americans had the same complaints about immigrants 50 years ago.
Professors Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer and Stephen Yale-Loehr have secured a $1.5 million grant from Crankstart for their groundbreaking initiative, the Path2Papers project. Housed at Cornell Law School, this new nonprofit venture helps DACA recipients in the San Francisco Bay Area pursue work visas and other pathways to legal permanent residency. Cornell DACA recipients can also receive consults through this project.
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
Recently, Cornell Law students and faculty in the 1L Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic traveled to the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York.
The work of Migrations visiting artist Guadalupe Maravilla, "Armonía de la Esfera" (Harmony of the Sphere), is showing at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum through June 9.
Learn more about the ways we support artists who examine migration topics in their work.
