Child safety seat checks April 28 Is your car seat really protecting your child? Find out at the child safety seat check offered by the Cornell University Police, April 28, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Cornell Grounds Shop, 307 Palm Road. Trained child passenger safety technicians will provide instruction in proper…
Michener Approximately 74 million people in the United States use Medicaid. But as assistant professor of government Jamila Michener recounts in her new book, “Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics,” there is no one Medicaid, but rather a patchwork of policies across states with differences even at the neighborhood…
Dr. Luvelle Brown is an educational leader with a strong commitment to social justice. As the superintendent of the Ithaca City School District, he has made substantial improvements in the graduation rates, attendance, and academic performance of students through his mission to “Engage, Educate, and Empower.” Dr. Brown presented his leadership strategies and…
ProvidedBelfer Research Building, Weill Cornell Medicine. Responses by workers and their advocates to challenges in the gig economy will be explored in an April 27-28 conference organized by The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR. Bringing together U.S. and European academics, union representatives, worker organizations and legal advocates, Workers’ Rights in…
Dave Burbank/University PhotographyAnkur Singh, left, works in his lab with doctoral student Sungwoong Kim. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that is diagnosed in the U.S. more than 70,000 times annually, arises from overly proliferating immune cells within the body’s lymph nodes, which are connected to a network of lymph vessels through which…
The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is offering funding for the Cornell teaching community to implement new projects that will facilitate challenging, vibrant and reflective learning experiences for undergraduates. All faculty and full-time instructors engaged in teaching at Cornell are invited to submit proposals exploring new and emerging tools and…
Robert Barker/University Photography Nadine Strossen, right, discusses hate speech April 10 during a panel discussion with Sherry Colb and Jeremy Waldron. Two pre-eminent legal scholars agree that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment under certain circumstances. But their opinions diverge on how most effectively to reduce hate speech…
Dena Simmons, assistant director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, will give two lectures related to tackling impostor syndrome, April 23 at Cornell. “Historically defined, people with impostor syndrome do not believe their success is theirs. Somehow by fate or luck they think they’ve succeeded. They don’t attribute their…
Sarah Rubenstein-Gillis, LMSW is a Clinical Social Worker at Cornell University. Her professional career has included work as a faculty member, crisis and support counselor, community organizer, and advocate for HIV/AIDS education. Sarah presented a research project titled, “Reel Milk: Uncovering Breastfeeding in Hollywood” to address how media influences our…
Cornell Dining will add to its already high-quality ingredient standards by focusing on whole, minimally processed food and transparency in menu items. Dining’s commitment to the Menus of Change University Research Collaborativeinitiative helps inform its mission to provide a rich, diverse, healthful dining experience to students. More than 50 changes…