To study the intersection of immigration law and workplace rights law, Youbin Kang has joined ILR as a post-doctoral fellow through a Future of Work grant. In this position, Kang will, under the guidance of Professor Shannon Gleeson and Professor Kati Griffith, conduct research examining the impact of immigration status on workplace precarity.

“Conservation of migratory species is extremely difficult because they cross nations, continents, even hemispheres. That requires a lot of coordination among different countries, and thinking across geopolitical boundaries,” says Amanda Rodewald, director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Lab of Ornithology.

Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Lab of Ornithology, says “There’s growing recognition that many of the same steps we need to take to protect migratory species, as well as biodiversity more generally — those are the same steps we need to take to protect human health and well-being.”

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

Interdisciplinary teams of faculty and researchers from all Cornell colleges, schools and departments are encouraged to identify a research issue of global importance and plan a path to a successful alternative future that is sound, equitable and sustainable. Letters of intent are due Feb. 26.

The results are in! Check out this year's winners of our creative writing and art competition. Students shared how migration shapes their communities through essays, poetry, and art.

“Each of the three branches of government has a role to play in immigration law and policy, and each has failed,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “The result: a quagmire, where nothing gets resolved and matters get worse every day. Every branch of government is to blame.”

More than 80% of global land area needed to maintain human well-being and meet biodiversity targets is unprotected, according to a new study led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Sophie Pinkham, comparative literature professor of the practice, has won the 2023 British Journalism Award for Travel Journalism. Her winning feature investigates a refugee crisis in Poland’s primeval forest.

A study that used photos taken by participants to spark conversation reveals firsthand accounts of how climate change, land use and dams on the Mekong River are threatening the future of the communities dependent on those ecosystems.

Cornell anthropologist Natasha Raheja publishes a new ethnographic study she conducted at the border of Jodhpur, India about Pakistani Hindus, and their interactions with computer typists who provide essential services to prospective migrants into India.

The photo used here is by Carol Mitchell under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed license.