(Virtual) Things to Do, June 12-26, 2020
Virtual events at Cornell include a Russian conversation series; trainings on racism and allyship; a Congressional Black Caucus panel; a COVID-19 bereavement support group and live Alliance for Science...
View ArticleDiverse alums gather for conversations on race, justice
Cornell Mosaic community members and alumni from all class years were invited to participate in a series of online events during Reunion 2020 weekend.
View ArticleLaw School clinic scores First Amendment win in Geneva
Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic and co-counsel Greenberg Traurig, LLP scored a victory last Thursday for citizen journalist Jim Meaney and his blog “The Geneva Believer.”
View ArticleLaw School’s new online master’s teaches language of law
The Master of Science in Legal Studies, a 20-month program offered primarily online, aims to help full-time business professionals navigate the legal regulations and issues impacting their industries.
View ArticleLaw clinic helps NYTimes win access to COVID-19 data on race
The Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic, working on behalf of its client, The New York Times, helped secure the release by the Center for Disease Control of previously unseen data that provides...
View ArticleAssié-Lumumba leads Institute for African Development
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba began her term as director of the Einaudi Center's Institute for African Development July 1. She is leading IAD’s contributions to the center’s new thematic initiative on...
View ArticleLaw scholars’ proposal boosts skilled immigration, economy
A pilot program proposed by two Cornell Law School scholars seeks to attract highly skilled immigrants through a points-based selection process, a change they say would benefit the U.S. immigration...
View ArticleWarrior-Scholar Project: a bridge from military to college
The Warrior-Scholar Project offered seminars taught by Cornell faculty and writing instruction July 19-24 in an immersive summer college prep experience for 10 currently enlisted and former service...
View ArticleLee Teng-hui, Ph.D. ’68, former Taiwan president, dies at 97
Lee Teng-hui, Ph.D. ’68, the first popularly elected president of Taiwan, who helped guide the island toward prosperity and democracy, died July 30 in Taipei. He was 97.
View ArticleCornell to receive ‘on-campus’ accreditation visit via Zoom
Indicative of the coronavirus era, Cornell next month will be among the first universities to receive an accreditation visit via Zoom.
View ArticlePeñalver: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue – Remembering Justice Ruth Bader...
Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94, the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, reflects on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, who died Friday at age 87.
View ArticleSummer workshops spur conversations on racism
Summer faculty workshops, organized by the Intergroup Dialogue Project and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, were aimed at reflecting on the ongoing reality of systemic anti-Black racism.
View ArticleCoors forum to explore free speech and ‘cancel culture’
The tension between free speech and “cancel culture” will be explored in the next installment of the Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series. The Oct. 1 forum will feature journalist Masha...
View ArticleNewly discovered letters reveal professor’s impact on Ginsburg
Correspondences from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 to Milton Konvitz, Ph.D. ’33, a founding faculty member at the ILR School who also served on the Cornell Law School faculty, have...
View ArticleExperts: Acknowledge uncertainty in COVID communication
Sarah Kreps and Doug Kriner, professors of government, found that different presentations of scientific uncertainty influence attitudes about science and whether models of virus spread should guide...
View ArticleCoors forum highlights free speech in age of ‘cancel culture’
Journalist Masha Gessen and linguist John McWhorter discussed free speech in the age of cancel culture as part of The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, Oct. 1.
View ArticleSummer program helped bolster local indigent defense
The Cornell Defender Program virtually teamed undergraduates and law students with trial attorneys to support indigent defense in Tompkins County and a more diverse pipeline of students interested in...
View ArticleGrants fund community-engaged learning curricula
The Office of Engagement Initiatives recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors...
View ArticleHomecoming keynote highlights Law School clinics
The Oct. 9 StayHomecoming keynote panel featured the work of four Cornell Law School clinics, which offer students real-world experience while helping people who otherwise may not be able to afford...
View ArticleWebinar highlights advocacy for international students
More than 700 people attended “Ballots and Borders: Election 2020; What’s at Stake for International Students and Scholars,” a webinar on Oct. 19 featuring Cornell Law School immigration expert Stephen...
View ArticleAnalysis: Trump White House NDAs are likely unconstitutional
Nondisclosure agreements implemented by the Trump White House likely infringe on the First Amendment rights of government employees and the press, according to a report by Cornell Law School’s First...
View ArticlePeñalver, Law School dean, named Seattle University president
Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94 will step down as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School in January and depart for Seattle University next summer. Jens David Ohlin, vice dean and professor of law,...
View ArticleIAD grant will support learning hubs in Ghana, Zambia
The Institute for African Development has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to strengthen African studies and languages for Cornell undergraduates.
View ArticleWomen’s entrepreneurship institute set for major expansion
A new grant will enable the Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell to enroll another 30,000 students in its online certificate program, more than doubling total enrollment...
View ArticleLaw School women blazed new trails despite discrimination
In the 126 years since Mary Kennedy Brown became Cornell Law School’s first woman lawyer, the school’s women graduates have gone on to become trailblazers in law, business and education, despite...
View ArticleSouth Asia, Latin America ‘flashpoints’ of global care markets
South Asia and Latin America share a commonality as two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market, according to scholars Anindita Banerjee and Debra Castillo.
View ArticleStudents help man win freedom after 28 years in prison
A group of Cornell undergrads, members of the new Cornell chapter of the Parole Preparation Project, celebrated earlier this month after helping an incarcerated man get released on parole after 28...
View ArticleExperts: To save public health, release immigration detainees
Immigrants in detention centers have a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, and detainees should be released into their communities, according to a report co-authored by a pair of Cornell researchers.
View ArticleCornell team seeks mercy for Lisa Montgomery
Cornell faculty and students have led a campaign seeking clemency for Lisa Montgomery, who next month is scheduled to become the first woman executed by the U.S. government in nearly 70 years.
View ArticleAlum leads legal team for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine
Douglas Lankler, J.D. ’90, executive vice president and general counsel at Pfizer, has played a leading role in establishing Pfizer’s agreement with the U.S. government for 100 million doses of a...
View ArticleMigrations initiative wins $5M Mellon grant for racial justice
The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative will bring together scholars from across the university and beyond to study the links between racism, dispossession and migration.
View ArticleInstitute breaks record in 2020, making laws easy to access
Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, a pioneer in providing open access to U.S. legal information online, welcomed more than 39 million unique visitors to its website during a year of...
View ArticleCenter for Social Sciences announces 2021-22 faculty fellows
As CCSS fellows, a dozen faculty members representing seven colleges and schools will pursue ambitious research projects on issues ranging from political polarization to environmental justice.
View Article‘Racism in America’ webinar to examine protest movements
In its next webinar, the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) yearlong webinar series, “Racism in America,” will examine how protest movements and civil disobedience have sought to both end and...
View ArticleSearch committee set for policy school’s founding dean
A year after the provost announced plans to create a School of Public Policy, following a multiyear review of how to elevate Cornell’s excellence and prominence in the social sciences, the search for...
View ArticleMary Nichols ’66 brings a fresh air to Cornell Atkinson
Mary Nichols '66, environmental icon and former chair of the California Air Resources Board, will become a Visiting Senior Fellow at Cornell Atkinson.
View ArticleCornell Prelaw Program Goes Online this Summer
Cornell University is pleased to announce the launch of a new prelaw program for undergraduates: the Cornell Global Prelaw Program Online, June 28-July 31, 2021. The program is open to students from...
View ArticleAward recipient builds Migrations community at Cornell
Migrations postdoctoral fellow Eleanor Paynter received the International Studies Association’s 2021 Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation in Human Rights. Since arriving at Cornell last...
View ArticleNobel laureate Sen to lecture on protecting democracy
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5.
View ArticleGrants advance social sciences research, collaboration
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has awarded spring grants supporting research and conferences involving more than 30 faculty and researchers across campus, including collaborations within new...
View ArticleLaw student plays key role in blogger’s defamation defense
In a case won by Cornell Law School's First Amendment Clinic, law student Rob Ward addressed a novel question in New York state court concerning recent changes to state statutes intended to protect...
View ArticleLaw clinic helped pave way for Malawi’s death penalty ban
Through the Malawi Resentencing Project, the International Human Rights Clinic and Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide have helped dozens of death row prisoners win reduced sentences or...
View ArticleLaw clinic's win unseals records of PA lawmaker’s prosecution
Representing a coalition of media outlets, the First Amendment Clinic and co-counsel won the release of documents related to the federal prosecution of a Pennsylvania state representative who won...
View ArticleFaculty profiles: From circular construction to academic law ambition
Meet Felix Heisel, Madeline Kneeland, Michelle Moyal and Brian Richardson, who are bringing their expertise to Cornell.
View ArticleAsylum clinic wins release for Cuban doctor detained by ICE
Dr. Merlys Rodriguez Hernandez, fleeing prosecution in Cuba, was held for six months in an Arizona detention center, where she contracted COVID-19.
View ArticleMargulies receives Levy faculty engagement award
Joseph Margulies, professor of the practice of law and government, has been awarded the 2021 George D. Levy Faculty Award for his work to break down barriers for previously incarcerated people in...
View ArticleJens David Ohlin named dean of Cornell Law School
Jens David Ohlin, who has served as interim dean of Cornell Law School since January and as a member of the faculty since 2008, has been named the Allan R. Tessler Dean, effective July 1.
View ArticleReunion panel steers racism conversation toward action
The panel, moderated by Noliwe Rooks, discussed ways to steer conversation toward meaningful action, including: listening to scholarly experts; implementing new initiatives; and engaging students and...
View ArticleBronin nominated to chair U.S. historic preservation council
Sara Bronin, an incoming faculty member in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and a leading voice on historic preservation law and related land-use practices, was recently nominated to chair...
View ArticleLaw professor offers international human rights course
International Human Rights in Theory and Practice, taught this summer by Cornell Law School Clinical Professor of Law Elizabeth Brundige, invites students to think critically about international human...
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