Political economist Alberto Alesina will discuss “Immigration and Redistribution: Perceptions Versus Reality” Oct. 31 at 4:30 p.m. as part of the George Staller Lecture series.
Cornell’s endowment reached $7.3 billion, a new record, for the fiscal year ending June 30. Gains in real estate and equities led the performance. Over the past three fiscal years, the portfolio has grown 9.4%.
Chemist Geoffrey Coates will be part of the $120 million, second phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, an interdisciplinary battery development project.
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack issued a statement to the Cornell community June 27 expressing her disappointment with the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Trump administration’s executive order restricting entry from certain countries to the United States.
Chloe Ahmann co-edited “Breathing Late Industrialism,” a special issue of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, to focus not just on the wreckage of post-industrial landscape but also on the “radical potential” of how “late industrial systems might be put to life-affirming work.”
“Politics and Justice in the Era of Donald Trump” will be explored in a lecture series at Cornell featuring eminent social scientists, beginning on Sept. 12.