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Salil Choudhary’s American dream started in India. Choudhary completed his degree at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh in the mid-1990s, when political and business leaders were consumed with the pending threat of Y2K.
bell hooks taught the world two things: how to critique and how to love. Perhaps the two lessons were both sides of the same coin. To read bell hooks is to become initiated into the power and inclusiveness of Black feminism whether you are a Black woman or not.
In the United States, only 7 percent of green cards can go to citizens of any single country each year. As a result, I have dozens of high-skilled immigrant clients who are in a similar situation, stuck in a decades-long green card backlog, simply because they’re from a populous country.
Thanks to an international effort and a robust cross-campus collaboration, nine Afghan women undergraduates are arriving at Cornell through December.
"I study people who lived in the Inka Empire to understand how one imperial policy, mass forced resettlement, impacted individuals and communities. There is a lot of research about this policy on a political level, but I want to shed light on what it meant for people who were forced to leave home and relocate to unfamiliar places."
Khalil Hicks, age 11, straddles a 3-foot square trench and points his trowel at the spot where he and his fellow archaeologists discovered an unexpected treasure – right near the stone foundation of St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, Ithaca’s most important Underground Railroad station.
As the chillier weather of late fall arrives in the Mid-Atlantic region, so too come other annual visitors: large, majestic bald eagles.
Flying hundreds of miles, these predatory birds follow the coast and riverways as they search for fishing grounds that will sustain them through winter. For many, that perfect fishing spot is at Maryland’s Conowingo Dam, north of Baltimore on the Susquehanna River.
As in many other places in the Mid-Atlantic, resident eagles can be seen year-round at Conowingo. But in the fall, the number of eagles can explode into the hundreds, as their northern cousins follow the Susquehanna down from its headwaters in Cooperstown in Central New York. Others follow the Atlantic Coastline, reaching the top of the Chesapeake Bay.
On August 16, 2019, a married Cuban couple—both doctors—arrived at the U.S. border crossing in Nogales, Arizona seeking asylum after they’d been branded and jailed as dissidents by the Cuban government.
But this unfortunately wasn’t the end of the hellish journey out of Cuba for Merlys Rodriguez Hernandez and her husband Lazaro. They would spend more than one year apart, stuck in separate detention centers and a byzantine U.S. immigration system that is both cruel and capricious.
Imagine a world in which supermarket shelves were void of corn-based products like corn flakes and polenta, while grains like rice and barley were pricier and the selection smaller. Such a future could be just around the corner due to climate change, which stands to make some crops scarcer and others unexpectedly abundant — meaning the human diet, and your own personal food consumption habits, stand to drastically change.
