Karine Jean-Pierre, 35th White House Press Secretary and former senior advisor to President Joe Biden, visited the Brooks School of Public Policy for “On Being First: A Fireside Chat with KJP” hosted by Black in Public Policy (BIPP), a Cornell student organization that focuses on building access and exposure to policy careers for Black students.
In the public lecture culminating the Black History Month series, Blain will trace how Black women from Ida B. Wells to contemporary Black Lives Matter leaders have used the language and practice of human rights to confront racism and white supremacy.
During her Yaddo residency, Danielle Russo developed a dance piece, enriching the work by drawing on ideas of ritual movement, personal memories and family history, and more.
Several New York–based technology companies are accelerating next-generation semiconductor manufacturing with support from the NY THRIVE Innovation Voucher program, including projects in collaboration with Cornell University’s world-class research facilities.
Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular “gate” that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate blood pressure, brain signaling, and immune defenses. But when levels go unchecked, it can damage cells and disrupt normal signaling.
A nationwide campaign that resulted in hundreds of scientists publishing letters in their hometown newspapers about the value of federal research funding has received the Meeting the Moment for Public Health Award from the non-profit Research!America.
A leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology exploring questions of character, virtue and agency, John Doris writes about a movement to inform moral philosophy with psychological research, as well as the other way around.