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October 25, 2022

Ideas that sprang from a pre-pandemic panel discussion at Cornell now inform a United Nations initiative aimed to meet looming global food needs in a healthy, equitable and sustainable way....

October 24, 2022

Brooks School students in a hands-on infrastructure class have developed a solar power policy proposal to combat Puerto Rico’s persistent power...

October 17, 2022

Taxes on elites earmarked for public safety have provided windows of opportunity in Latin America and a blueprint for state-building efforts across the developing world, Gustavo Flores-Macías argues in a new...

October 12, 2022

The confusing response to COVID-19 in the U.S. resulted from decisions by President Donald Trump and his allies to politicize the pandemic by associating it with his own fate in office, according to a new book by a Cornell author....

October 11, 2022

New research finds a generation of federal school reform hasn’t addressed the primary drivers of racial gaps in achievement and attainment: economic inequality and segregated schools....

October 4, 2022

Economist W. Keith Bryant, Cornell professor emeritus and co-author of an influential text on household economics, died Sept. 13....

September 30, 2022

Reginald M. Ballantyne III, MBA ’67 is a prominent health care industry leader and longtime supporter of Cornell programs. He has endowed a scholarship that is the largest gift in the history of the Sloan Program in Health Administration...

September 27, 2022

Inaugural Dean Colleen Barry offers a celebratory toast as the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy marks its first anniversary with a party at the Statler Hotel, attended by more than 300 students, faculty, staff and friends of...

September 27, 2022

New research shows that the reason children show more progress on math exams than on English exams partially stems from incentives embedded in the way standardized tests are designed....

September 27, 2022

New research on the structure of standardized tests offers an answer to a question that has long puzzled experts on the economics of education: Why do children show more progress on math exams than English language arts exams (ELA) in...