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Center Activities

The Mario Einaudi Center is one of the largest and most diverse university international studies centers in the United States. Key areas of engagement that demonstrate the Center’s impact on faculty, students, the local community and beyond are:

• Supporting Programs and Institutes: As an umbrella organization, the Center provides financial and logistical support for international Programs and Institutes at Cornell.
• Investing in new initiatives: The Center serves as a catalyst and makes strategic investments for new initiatives, addressing contemporary questions and current events.
• Connecting the campus: The Center provides extensive web support to many of its associated Programs resulting in one of the most comprehensive collections of websites on international studies at Cornell. In addition the Center is responsible for creating and maintaining Cornell’s International Gateway, which offers a greatly expanded collection of Cornell’s international resources. The Center also initiated and continuously supports the Cornell International Education Network (CIEN).
• Hosting the Bartels World Affairs Fellowship: Since 1985, the Bartels fellowship has brought a noted world leader to campus to deliver a public lecture, meet with classes and interact informally with faculty members and students.
• Supporting graduate research abroad: The Center offers a unique research travel grant program to encourage graduate student research and field work in countries outside the United States.
• Advising graduate students: The Center’s Fulbright Advisor provides assistance to graduate students with the Fulbright Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright-Hays Program of the U.S. Department of Education. Both Programs award prestigious highly competitive grants to students for study or research abroad.
• Offering the International Relations Minor: This interdisciplinary program is open to undergraduate students enrolled in any of Cornell’s seven undergraduate colleges.
• Publicizing: The Center represents and publicizes its associated Programs both on campus and beyond the university in the form of an annual report and other publications. It also offers a working paper series.
• Holding Cornell’s exchange agreements: The Center maintains a file of all international exchange agreements that Cornell faculty, departments, and colleges have entered into with other academic institutions around the world.
• Informing Cornell's leadership: The Center advises the university's administration and the Cornell community on international trends and developments to retain Cornell's strength in international studies.