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High Road Buffalo Fellowships

Applications will be open: November 22, 2025-February 10, 2026

Engaged learning and applied research fellowships for Cornell students in Buffalo, NY.

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Since 2009, the High Road Fellowship Program has placed 235 Cornell students in the co-laboratory of Buffalo, N.Y. to learn, explore, examine and revitalize the historic Rust Belt city.

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High Road Buffalo Stories

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The Prison Letters of CeCe McDonald

Panel discusses letters of CeCe McDonald, a Black Trans woman sentenced to 41 months in prison for defending her friends and herself from racist, transphobic assaulters.
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The Prison Letters of CeCe McDonald

High Road 2020: Place-Based Work from Any Place

Instead of bringing the students to Buffalo, the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab will be modifying summer projects, panels, tours, activities so that it can bring Buffalo to its Fellows.

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High Road 2020: Place-Based Work from Any Place

Cornell Fellows Continue Tradition of Public Service to Greater Buffalo

In June and July, 21 Cornell undergraduates will come to Western New York to contribute to community and economic development with an array of community-based organizations and local elected officials.

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Cornell Fellows Continue Tradition of Public Service to Greater Buffalo