Brooks School team publishes new guide to strengthen grassroots advocacy in New York

A new guide developed by a team from Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy aims to make state-level policy advocacy in New York more accessible, transparent, and effective for community leaders and grassroots…

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Brooks School establishes faculty partnership with University of Torino

Building on a long-running successful collaboration centered on summer study abroad programming, the Brooks School and the University of Torino have established a new partnership to foster faculty and graduate student exchange.

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Chinchilla, Ghafari lead Brooks School conversation on the future of democracy

Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and Afghan human rights activist Zarifa Ghafari headlined a powerful discussion on the future of democracy during a fireside chat at Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy.

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Status is the focus of the upcoming Cook-Gray Lecture

Cecilia L. Ridgeway, M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’72, Stanford University’s Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, Emerita, will deliver the annual Alice Cook–Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on Oct. 23.

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Brooks student combines love of birds and climate policy research during summer internship

This summer, Smith turned his lifelong passion into purpose through a new internship program jointly offered by the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Under the guidance of Brooks School professor Sheila Olmstead, Smith explored how wetlands policies affect not only avian populations and migration patterns but also the human communities that depend on those ecosystems.

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NIH grant to fund autism research center

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus will use a $5.1 million grant from the NIH to launch the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility Center, which aims to improve the reliability of autism research.

Health policy survey launches with insight on Medicaid work requirements

Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults, according to a new survey from the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel.

Brooks and A&S partner on new option for public policy major

Students who decide to pursue the B.A. in public policy will be admitted into the College of Arts and Sciences and take courses in both Brooks and A&S. 

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Nine postdocs honored with achievement awards

Nine postdoctoral scholars were honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards as part of Cornell’s participation in National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The awards recognize excellence in community engagement, leadership and mentoring.

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