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Wishing you a peaceful winter break and happiness and good health in the new year. Our offices will reopen on January 4. We look forward to seeing you on campus in 2021!

In a year full of change and unexpected challenges, Cornellians persevered.

Today's highlight for Global Cornell's Race and Racism Across Borders campaign is Ekaterina Landgren's essay, "Entering America". #cornellacrossborders Institute for European Studies "From a young age, my Russian parents instilled in me that there are few things worse than not having the right papers. My father traveled with thick folders of supplementary materials. A passport was just the beginning. Passport control was a trial, and during that trial, any documentfrom birth... certificate to apartment titlecould be requested, reviewed, and rejected. Crossing the border was a game of chance rigged against us. You had to count yourself lucky and feel grateful if you made it through...." Ekaterina Landgren is a PhD candidate in applied mathematics from Russia. She works on models of climate, planetary ice cover, and atmospheric dynamics. Read the rest of Ekaterina's essay here!! https://global.cornell.edu/race-and-racism-across-borders

Today's highlight for Global Cornell's Race and Racism Across Borders is Lucy Ding's architectural drawings, "Leaving Rome" #cornellacrossborders Cornell University "This project packs up some of my thoughts during the migration/evacuation from Rome to Ithaca, from Ithaca to Shenzhen, and from Shenzhen to Beijing. For a while my life centered around a suitcase, the temporal basic unit for space and living....." Lucy Ding is fourth-year B.Arch student from Shenzhen, China, currently Studying Away in Beijing. See all of Lucy's drawings here and read Lucy's entire entry! https://global.cornell.edu/race-and-racism-across-borders

Video now available! Watch this provocative conversation on policing, violence, and human rights in the US and around the world.