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 public policy.
The College Scholar Program in the College of Arts & Sciences allows students to design their own interdisciplinary major, organized around a question or issue of interest, and pursue a course of study that cannot be found in an established major.
The Institute of Politics and Global Affairs has launched the Campaign for the Future of Democracy, which will work to restore respect for democratic norms and to strengthen democratic resilience.
Aija Leiponen, professor at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, comments on the possibility of a AT&T-Time Warner merger and its impact on consumers.
Suzanne Mettler, Ph.D. ’94, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Cornell has joined an amicus brief supporting Harvard and MIT's challenge of a Trump administration directive that would deny visas to international students who take only online classes this fall.
Twenty faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines.
A team including a Cornell researcher has developed a digital “virus” that could piggyback on contact-tracing apps and spread from smartphone to smartphone in real time, helping policymakers predict COVID-19 spread.
Physicist John Preskill will explain quantum entanglement, and why it makes quantum information unique, in the spring Hans Bethe Lecture, April 10 in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
