This year, 27 new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences, enriching 17 departments and programs with their excellence in an impressive range of topics, including moral psychology, gravitational waves, Black contemporary art and more.
Director Mick Mulvaney, the 2025–26 Nixon Distinguished Policy Fellow, delivered a keynote on the rise of populism in America to a full lecture hall of Cornell students, highlighting shifts in U.S. politics and engaging in wide-ranging discussion on contemporary policy challenges.
First Amendment law and trying to “figure out what’s true” are guiding principles for free speech on college campuses, said constitutional scholar Cass R. Sunstein in the annual Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on Oct. 30.
David Silbey, a professor specializing in military history, defense policy, and battlefield analysis, says that the massive display of new military power by the Chinese served several purposes.
Now divided between Romania and Ukraine, the region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.
Building on a long-running successful collaboration centered on summer study abroad programming, the Brooks School and the University of Torino have established a new partnership to foster faculty and graduate student exchange.
The Cornell Health Policy Center organized its first Business Leaders Roundtable in New York City last week with the aim of engaging senior industry leaders from the health care sector with existing and upcoming research on topics like Medicare Advantage, Medicaid reform, and prescription drug pricing.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy has partnered with Service to School (S2S), a nonprofit founded and led by veterans, which provides free college and graduate school application counseling to service members and veterans.
Robert Hockett, is a professor of law and public finance at Cornell Law School, where he focuses on financial and monetary law and economics. He says Trump’s scheme to push out Cook is precisely the kind of political meddling Fed policy was designed to guard against.
