Experts in a Nov. 20 panel discussion, “A Polarized Supreme Court: What It Means for Democracy,” will explore the politics of and declining public confidence in the court, and its potential response to likely challenges to the policies of the next administration.
The Brooks Tech Policy Institute, with support from the Jain Family Institute (JFI), has released a new report that offers “a high-level framework to analyze regulation of AI technologies.”
A new residential academic experience housed in the Brooks School’s Wolpe Center in Washington, D.C., will offer a one-of-a-kind immersive public policy learning experience for first-semester public policy and health care policy majors.
When it comes to the U.S. elections, students are engaging with the ideas, conversing across difference and recognizing complexity - and are eager to vote, many for the first time.
Together, Matt Hall, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, and their faculty colleagues at the Cornell Population Center are pushing the traditional limits of their disciplines to find creative ways to meet a generation that could be defined by major population transformations. This includes leveraging demographic and big data tools to analyze how older populations navigate their communities, how racial diversity shapes patterns of marriage and childbearing, and how accelerating migration may undermine repressive political regimes.
The fireside chat was part of a two-day visit by Dr. Robert M. Califf, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, who focused on medicine and health care innovations.
This summer, seven Cornell students traveled to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director Erin King Sweeney to get an inside look at these major political events.
Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.
