Tom Schryver, executive director of Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement, testified Nov. 10 to state legislators, saying state-funded entrepreneur programs are an effective way to support economic growth.
City and regional planning students conducted engaged community research in the Cornell in Rome program and in Sullivan County, New York, on building better communities for children and seniors.
City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."
Political scientist Adam Seth Levine offers a new perspective on barriers to political involvement on economic insecurity concerns in his new book, "American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction."
In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World," Peter Enns sheds new light on the high U.S. rate of incarceration.
It's not discrimination, but rather differences in resources attributable to career and family-related choices that set women back in science fields, Cornell researchers say. (Feb. 7, 2011)
New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak discussed recent and past applications of the First Amendment to court decisions on campus Jan. 22. Liptak addressed what he sees as the dangers of applying the First Amendment liberally.
Political and foreign relations experts including Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe will explore the crisis in Ukraine at a public panel discussion March 14 in Uris Auditorium.
Cornell Professor John Blume will be a major player March 9 when CNN broadcasts the premiere of a new eight-part series, “Death Row Stories," produced by Robert Redford.