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.
A Nov. 13 event sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences will feature reflections on the political and social context and consequences of the COVID epidemic.
Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers the Konvitz Memorial Lecture, Oct. 30 in Myron Taylor Hall.
Vincent Intondi is an affiliated scholar at Cornell University who studies nuclear disarmament. He says many of Trump’s statements about other nations’ nuclear operations are not accurate, and he questions the president’s understanding of the full consequences of resuming nuclear testing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
