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April 20, 2018

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 am-noon, at the Cornell Grounds Shop, 307 Palm Road Trained child passenger safety...

April 19, 2018

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,...

April 18, 2018

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...

April 18, 2018

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 US and...

April 17, 2018

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 US more than 70,000 times annually, arises from overly proliferating immune cells within...

April 16, 2018

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...

April 13, 2018

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...

April 12, 2018

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...

April 12, 2018

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...

March 30, 2018

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...

March 29, 2018

Weill Cornell Medicine Art and Photography From right, Drs Avery August and Monika Safford, co-directors of the Center for Health Equity, celebrate the center's opening with Dr Augustine MK Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine,...

March 28, 2018

Although scientists warn that urgent action is needed to stop climate change, public engagement continues to lag Many social scientists say people are hesitant to act on climate change because, especially in Western industrialized countries like the US, it feels...