Expert panelists Thomas Garrett and Damon Wilson will examine the threats democracies around the world are confronting, and what governments and citizens can do to fight back, on April 24.
Cornell AgriTech and extension representatives made suggestions regarding the next federal farm bill to congressional leaders at a two-hour listening session at the Broome County office of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Maureen Waller, a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Sociology, will study racial and economic disparities in driver’s license suspensions through her selection as Access to Justice Scholar. Waller will examine people’s lived experiences with having a suspended license as well as recent and potential reforms in New York to end “debt-based” suspensions.
Former U.S. Senator Rob Portman will be one of the panelists at an event on Ukraine infrastructure reconstruction, held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Cornell’s Office of General Counsel, to engage proactively with groups across campuses, is planning a series of four workshops designed to educate Cornell community members on common legal challenges in higher education.
Max Rose, a former U.S. representative, was joined by former representative Fred Upton at a Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy event focusing on strategies for restoring civil discourse in the face of performative politics. Rose, a Democrat, and Upton, a Republican, said Congress has actually been relatively productive despite the degree of political polarization.
For the first time in 125 years, the face of a celebrated New Yorker – Ruth Bader Ginsburg – will be permanently commemorated at the New York State Capitol’s Great Western Staircase.
