More than 17 years after joining the Cornell University Police Department as a patrol officer, the Lansing native was formally welcomed as its chief at a Jan. 21 commissioning ceremony.
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.
On Jan. 28, the Center for Teaching Innovation and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will co-host “Teaching About Climate Change: Art, Action and Reflection,” a faculty panel, teaching workshop and exhibit tour exploring how instructors can engage the humanities, climate change and community in their teaching.
Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system. Williamson is the first Cornell student to win the award.
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.
People base vaccination decisions less on raw facts than on intuition about them, and how that “gist” aligns with their core values, new psychology research finds.
Cornell faculty members, academic departments, or groups of departments are invited to submit nominations of distinguished scholars and artists for the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program by Monday, November 24.
Cornell leadership will apply principles of institutional restraint to decisions about when and how the university should comment publicly on matters of social and political significance.
Christine Lovely, vice president and chief human resources officer, is leaving Cornell to become vice chancellor for campus human resources and chief people officer at the University of California, Los Angeles.