In honor of our colleague Nicolas van de Walle (1957-2024), the Einaudi Center's Institute for African Development is cohosting a conference on African political economy.

New Cornell research reveals that social media users with disabilities prefer more personalized content moderation powered by AI systems that not only hide harmful content but also summarize or categorize it by the specific type of hate expressed.

A new study shows that when Indians and Americans used an AI writing assistant, their writing became more similar, mainly at the expense of Indian writing styles. Senior author on the paper Aditya Vashistha is funded by our Global Grand Challenge: The Future.

Katie Fiorella is the director of the Cornell Migrations Program. On the LRC podcast, she discusses the policies and outcomes related to the movement of living things across borders, and how Migrations has evolved since 2020.

A new archive of Venezuelan migrant testimonies is available to researchers at Cornell. An April 18 symposium hosted by Einaudi Center programs and the Cornell Library launched the collection.  

Qi Wang, the Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, teams up with Andrew Hoskins from the University of Edinburgh on a new book, The Remaking of Memory in the Age of Internet and Social Media.

President Kotlikoff writes a guest essay for The New York Times about the role of universities in defending democratic values and norms. 

A global study of democratic backsliding from Ken Roberts and Rachel Riedl offers ways for U.S. democracy to resist authoritarian attacks.

The Cornell Board of Trustees today voted to appoint Michael I. Kotlikoff, who has served as interim president since July 2024, Cornell’s 15th president, effective immediately.

Rebecca Slayton, director of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, studies the role of uncertainty in the cyber threat security industry. Her new article won an award from the International Studies Association.