Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will speak at Cornell on the state of education, Thursday, Oct. 24, at 5:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall. President David Skorton will lead a discussion with Bush and State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher afterward.
Kimberlé Crenshaw '81, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law and Columbia Law and specialist in race and gender theory, will present a lecture and several other talks and participate in meetings.
Peter Enns, assistant professor of government, finds that our lengthy,expensive presidential campaigns do less to sway voters, who focus on "fundamental" questions of economic prosperity and candidate ratings.
Since its launch by Cornell Law School's Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture in 2012, Meridian 180's influence on Southeast Asian policy has grown.
The Association of American Universities, led by President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III. released a statement Sept. 17 to member institutions including Cornell on the importance of the federal investment in such research.
Professor Matthew Evangelista, in giving one of the Cornell Context lectures for the 2013 New Student Reading Project, said that human rights violations, such as the Japanese-American internment in World War II, persist today.
Community advocates and professionals received training at the ILR School July 29 in recognizing and fighting human trafficking in western New York, and related issues affecting immigrants and undocumented workers.
Law professor Charles K. Whitehead argues that regulation of bankers' compensation must include the pay for non-senior executives, which could remove the incentive for traders and others to take the kind of high risks that contributed to the financial crisis of 2007.
