HR tool helps job applicants with criminal records land jobs

Human Resources plans to pilot Restorative Records, an online tool developed by the Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative that job applicants with criminal records can fill out to provide context about their past and details about education, rehabilitation and good conduct.

Students look to cast their votes with enthusiasm – and nuance

When it comes to the U.S. elections, students are engaging with the ideas, conversing across difference and recognizing complexity - and are eager to vote, many for the first time.

Justices use rhetoric to affirm high court’s power, influence

Researchers at Cornell Bowers CIS trained a large language model to identify the monologic voice – used to affirm one’s legitimacy, monologue style – including its collective and individualistic tones, in eight decades’ worth of U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

University celebrates top faculty for outstanding teaching, mentoring

Eleven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 22.

Demographic change is reshaping public policy from NY to Africa

Together, Matt Hall, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, and their faculty colleagues at the Cornell Population Center are pushing the traditional limits of their disciplines to find creative ways to meet a generation that could be defined by major population transformations. This includes leveraging demographic and big data tools to analyze how older populations navigate their communities, how racial diversity shapes patterns of marriage and childbearing, and how accelerating migration may undermine repressive political regimes.

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Belnick presidential forum focuses on election and democracy’s future

Four political experts will discuss “The 2024 Election and the Future of American Democracy” in this year’s Belnick Family LaFeber/Lowi Presidential Forum.

How zoning can reshape communities – this time for better

In a new book, “Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World,” Sara Bronin reveals zoning’s impact and how it can be harnessed for good.

Brooks students enjoy immersive experience at national conventions

This summer, seven Cornell students traveled to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director Erin King Sweeney to get an inside look at these major political events.

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Cornell Law Launches Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic

At the start of the fall semester, the Law School inaugurated its Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic, led by Clinical Professor of Law G.S. Hans.

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