As students in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy examined the complexities of U.S. refugee policy in Senior Lecturer Julie Ficarra’s class, Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy (PUBPOL 3050/5050) last fall, they grappled with difficult potential scenarios now unfolding in real time as a result of the Trump Administration’s pause of the refugee resettlement program.
OpenAI is lobbying the Trump administration to speed up AI advancement and ease regulations, while highlighting its take on the dangers of AI technology coming out of China.
Cornell University experts say this move, along with the plan to close field offices, creates significant challenges, especially for people with disabilities and those in rural areas.
Book considers how “ghosts” can help a state secure its survival and ground its authority in moments of crisis, such as the one Venezuela is experiencing now.
The United States is at a crossroads in the path toward gender equity in the labor market, according to Fran Blau ‘66, Frances Perkins Professor of ILR and professor of economics, emeritus, at the ILR School.
Paul Ortiz is a professor of labor history at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, and 7th Special Forces Group.
The Brooks School Center on Global Democracy hosted “Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats,” a hybrid event that attracted 120 participants and was streamed live from Goldwin Smith Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
Chloe Ahmann, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is helping local organizers in their quest for environmental justice — and bringing her students along. For this work, Ahmann was named recipient of this year’s Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
Heather Murray, the associate director of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic and the managing attorney of the Clinic’s Local Journalism Project, comments on a temporary restraining order requiring a local newspaper, The Clarksdale Press Register, to delete an editorial critical of city officials.
