A team from Cornell University’s Sloan Program in Health Administration earned first place at the Cornell Sloan Program in Health Administration National Case Competition hosted by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Amid concern about democratic backsliding globally, the center will mobilize scholars to strengthen democracy through rigorous research, democratic education and public engagement.
This spring, students from the Brooks School turned knowledge into action in Albany as part of the State Policy Advocacy Clinic’s engaged learning approach to teaching how to effectively change policy in New York State.
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research has announced its 2026 cohort of student scholars, supporting emerging researchers whose work advances the study of public opinion and its role in shaping policy and society.
Pamela Herd, a prominent sociologist from the University of Michigan, will come to Cornell at the end of this month to detail the broader public implications of administrative burden—from policy spaces to public understanding—including what it means to be a public sociologist who directly engages policy to make government better.
