One statistic in Tom Hirschl's new book, "Chasing the American Dream," got President Obama's attention - and a double citation in a speech about "economic mobility."
Even with strict financial constraints, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica are tackling revitalization, Cornell researchers and city officials said at a recent regional development conference.
Professor of Government Suzanne Mettler had several culprits in mind when she wrote “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream."
Soda taxes and beverage portion size restrictions were unpalatable to the 1,319 U.S. adults questioned in a 2012 survey as part of a study reported online March 10 in the journal Preventive Medicine.
Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94, an expert in property law and land use, and Cornell faculty member from 2006 to 2012, has been named the next Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, effective July 1.
Whether or not Vladimir Putin gains Crimea, he’s effectively lost the Ukraine, panelists agreed March 14 at the campus event, “Ukraine, Putin and the New Cold War,” at which Julia Ioffe, a senior editor at The New Republic, gave a keynote address.
A student team that devised a plan to sell certain public tweets to Google and Microsoft has won first prize in the university’s second annual Stephen S. J. Hall Ethics Case Competition held March 7 at the School of Hotel Administration.
