The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy welcomed Marielena Hincapié, John W. Nixon Public Policy fellow at the Brooks School, to Willard Straight Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus for the 2024 Nixon Lecture “From Crisis to Renewal: Immigration, Inclusion, and the Next 250 Years.”
As students in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy examined the complexities of U.S. refugee policy in Senior Lecturer Julie Ficarra’s class, Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy (PUBPOL 3050/5050) last fall, they grappled with difficult potential scenarios now unfolding in real time as a result of the Trump Administration’s pause of the refugee resettlement program.
Cornell has finalized its policy governing protests and other expressive activities, completing a monthslong review that engaged stakeholders from across its campuses.
A large-scale program that enlisted students in disadvantaged middle schools to teach younger peers reduced disciplinary problems and improved academic achievement, reports new research led by a Cornell economist.
Transgender women are nearly 20 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the national average in India, a country with the third largest HIV epidemic worldwide. In spite of India’s robust “test and treat” program, which offers free antiretroviral therapy (ART) after a positive test, treatment outcomes among transgender women remain disproportionately poor.
Don’t expect a broader backlash against President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders simply because they may rest on shaky legal ground, new Cornell research suggests.
The Brooks School Center on Global Democracy hosted “Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats,” a hybrid event that attracted 120 participants and was streamed live from Goldwin Smith Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
Black Americans are more willing to participate in medical studies led by Black doctors and researchers, perceiving them as more trustworthy, finds new research co-authored by a Cornell economist.
