Migrations director Katie Fiorella is awarded the inaugural SUNY Chancellor's Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship. The honor awards early-career faculty research and scholarly achievements across SUNY's colleges and universities.

The honor is presented annually, recognizing awardees on campuses across the SUNY system for their commitment to sustaining intellectual vibrancy, advancing the boundaries of knowledge, providing the highest quality of instruction and serving the public good.

Fleeing threats of arrest for apostasy, Artemis Ghasemzadeh escaped Iran in December 2024, hoping to find religious freedom in the United States. Instead, within minutes of crossing the border from Mexico to California, she was placed in detention, where the Department of Homeland Security showed no interest in considering her request for asylum.

AnemiaPhone, a technology developed by a multidisciplinary team of Cornell researchers to accurately, quickly and cheaply assess iron deficiency, has been transferred to the Indian Council of Medical Research of the government of India for integration into its programs for anemia, women’s health, and maternal and child health throughout the country.

With support from the Cornell Atkinson Center, Sarosh Kuruvilla and Jason Judd are leading a project to test and estimate costs of factory-level heat interventions. “Climate change is already negatively impacting worker livelihoods and industry sustainability,” says Sarosh Kuruvilla, acting director of the Southeast Asia Program. “The global fashion industry urgently needs to adapt, to protect worker health and long-term earnings.”

On-again-off-again tariffs have disrupted the global trading system and caused whiplash for businesses and consumers.

While Lopez Obrador ultimately found ways to accomplish his agenda, the Supreme Court served as an important check on his powers, says public policy professor Gustavo Flores-Macias.

“It’s a complicated time for global trade right now, you have the largest economy in the world, essentially pulling back from the rules of the game that have governed international trade for a long time,” said Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

According to research form Mary Jo Dudley at the Cornell Farmworker Program, about half of all farmworkers in New York State were undocumented.