Brooks School senior heads to Oxford on Keasbey Scholarship
A Ariela Asllani, a senior at Cornell University, is graduating in 2026 and heading to University of Oxford as a Keasbey Scholar to study refugee and migration issues. Shaped by a childhood rooted in service and her family’s own asylum experience, she has combined academic excellence with deep community engagement—founding refugee support initiatives in Ithaca and volunteering as a firefighter and EMT. Her goal is to use research and leadership to create more humane, experience-informed policies for displaced people.
A Cornell student and two alumni have been named Schwarzman Scholars
A Cornell student and two alumni have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars for the 2026–27 academic year, joining a prestigious global affairs master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Qiqi (Kiara) Shan ’26, Ruihao (Ray) Lin, J.D. ’24, and Isaac McCurdy ’21 will spend a year studying, traveling, and engaging in cultural immersion, with interests spanning mental health accessibility, international law, and global leadership.
A&S Student Selected for Civic Engagement Scholarship
Katrina Greene ’27 has been named a John Robert Lewis Scholar, becoming the first Cornell undergraduate to receive the national honor recognizing student leaders committed to social justice. A government major deeply involved in advocacy on campus, Greene will participate in a year-long program focused on civil rights, public service, and nonviolent leadership, with experiences in Washington, D.C. and a civil rights pilgrimage to Alabama.