The Einaudi Center's first-ever Undergraduate Global Scholars are writers, artists, and researchers with a common goal – to speak up for global free speech.

Eugene Nikiforovich, a fluid mechanics expert from Ukraine, researches geothermal energy and its properties—work he has been able to continue with support from Cornell since leaving Kyiv two years ago.

Afghan visual artist and scholar Sharifa “Elja” Sharifi fled Afghanistan in September 2021, a month after the Taliban seized control. She found a new beginning at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, where she has been able to continue her work over the past two years.

Funding from a 2022 Global Cornell International Cornell Curriculum (ICC) Development Grant provided Cornell and USFQ faculty the opportunity to pilot a bilateral exchange course.

McKenzie Carrier ’24, a Laidlaw scholar and undergraduate Migrations scholar, and Margot Treadwell ’24, an international relations minor, will both be assigned to the endowment’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance program.