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What I did over Winter Break: A Visit to the UN Security Council Meeting on Afghanistan & Touring with the Afghan All-Girls Robotics Team
Elaha Mahboob is a first-year CIPA student who is concentrating her studies on Science, Technology and Infrastructure Studies. While in college, she and her sister Roha founded Afghan Citadel Software Company, the first female-owned IT business in Afghanistan. Later, they co-founded a nonprofit organization called Digital Citizen Fund (DCF). You can read more about Elaha here.
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Alumni Q&A: Clare O’Brien
Clare O’Brien graduated from CIPA in May of 2017 with a concentration in Public and Nonprofit Management. She currently works as a Leadership Fellow at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (more…)
Internship with a Project Management Focus
Elizabeth Sweitzer is a second year CIPA fellow who is concentrating her studies on International Development, with a specific focus on food security. She also serves as the senior content editor for the Cornell Policy Review. Prior to joining CIPA, Elizabeth completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil (‘15); she speaks both Spanish and Portuguese.This summer, Lizzy traveled to Mexico where she worked at CIMMYT, a seed research center for improved livelihoods. In this post, she shares more about her internship experience and her work at Cornell. (more…)
Ithaca Accolades: Recent “Top 10” Mentions
For a small town, Ithaca is frequently heralded on lists of “Best” places in the United States – best place to live, best small town, best college town, smartest town,
etc. Situated at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca offers small town life with big city culture. A place of great natural beauty (surrounded by gorges, waterfalls and lakes), Ithaca boasts a wide range of dining options, theatre and music, eclectic shopping, and educational opportunities.
Just to give you a taste, Ithaca has recently been named / ranked:
- #4 Best College Town by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), January 2017
- #2 Best Small College Town by USA Today, April 2016
- Best Places to Live by Men’s Journal, March 2016
- Ithaca named Coffee Capital of New York State, January 2016
- Healthiest City in NY State by 24/7 Wall Street, September 2015
- Robert H. Treman State Park named Best Swimming Spot in New York State, March 2015
- The Finger Lakes wine region is ranked as the Number One Wine Region to Visit in America by Thrillist, April 2016
For a complete listing of accolades, go to: http://www.visitithaca.com/top-10s.html
Cornell University has received a few fun accolades of its own recently:
- #15 on list of Best Colleges by US News, 2017
- #9 in producing “Unicorn” Founders by Sage, February 2017
- “unicorn” is used as a term for a billion-dollar start-up
- #9 on the list of Top US Colleges by the Wall Street Journal, September 2016
- #3 for Best Campus Food by Princeton Review, 2016
- #8 for Best College Newspaper by Princeton Review, 2016
- Cornell has the 8th Tallest University Clock Tower by Best College Reviews
- Cornell in the Top 30 list of LGBTQ-friendly Colleges and Universities by Campus Pride, 2016