Cornell Brooks School seeks to prepare students, find solutions

Speaking to trustees, alumni volunteers and university leaders, Dean Colleen Barry described ambitious, public-minded goals for the new Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell Leadership Week.

Student grants serve communities from New York to Ethiopia

Students aim to reduce aviation emissions, support farmworkers and improve a New York animal shelter with the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s Serve in Place awards.

Students, local officials simulate autonomous vehicles

Local officials, graduate students and faculty held a simulation exercise at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy on March 12 to work through questions around autonomous vehicles. 

Nancy Schlichting ’79 named to Modern Healthcare Hall of Fame

Nancy Schlichting '79 is a pioneering leader the healthcare industry, an enthusiastic supporter of the Sloan Program in Health Administration and now an honoree in the Modern Healthcare Hall of Fame.

Around Cornell

Pandemic prompted exodus from New York City, gains upstate

An analysis of newly released census data by the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics shows how the pandemic’s onset influenced populations in each New York state county.

Jobseekers face prison credential dilemma

Formerly incarcerated men deal with uncertainty around whether to use their prison credentials or not when searching for work, according to new findings from Brooks sociologist Sade Lindsay.

Panel: Drone warfare is increasingly sophisticated, deadly

Policymakers, legislators and military strategists must prepare for the consequences of other countries and actors such as the Islamic State using drones, according to panelists in a Cornell discussion March 14.

Study: Language may not shape social outcomes

A new linguistic study, authored by Thomas Pepinsky, argues that there is no evidence that linguistic differences affect social and economic outcomes.

Student muralist explores public art, policy link

Junior Nate Reilly jumpstarts his own artistic career while working to enhance the arts from a systemic and policy-oriented lens as a participant in the Cornell in Washington program.