Jordan Matsudaira, assistant professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, has been appointed a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Partisanship and bureaucratic fragmentation are major challenges today's U.S. foreign policy, professors said during the discussion "America and the World," June 7 during Reunion.
The Cornell in Turin summer study abroad program June 2-22 brings students to Turin, Italy, for an accelerated course on European and Italian politics.
Cornell historian Fredrik Logevall outlined how the Vietnam War happened and the lessons the war teaches today in his Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 7 during Cornell Reunion 2013.
After a decade as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, Stewart J. Schwab will step down in June 2014. Schwab’s second term as dean ends in December, and he will stay on for the spring term.
The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill to overhaul immigration laws but the House will probably not vote on it this year, said adjunct professor of law, Stephen Yale-Loehr '77, J.D. '81, at a press briefing May 17 in Washington, D.C.
Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and International Human Rights Clinic has issued a report on Argentine women in prison and recommends reform of drug sentencing.
Hospital executive Reginald M. Ballantyne III, MBA '67, discussed his ideas for health care reform at the Sloan Program in Health Administration's alumni weekend May 4.
