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The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
The curriculum will offer students interdisciplinary engagement with moral psychology theory and research as well as hands-on experience applying moral psychology to practical ethical issues.
Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.”
The development of regional knowledge economies is one of several primary areas of research focus for the center’s Economic Sociology Lab, supported by graduate researchers and undergraduate assistants.
Cornell students successfully navigated the application process despite the COVID-19 pandemic and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy creates a home for policy-oriented faculty to study and teach, and for students to learn, about effective, thoughtful policymaking, analysis and management.
The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students.
Chen Qiu, Economics
Suraj Malladi, Economics
Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
Summer experiences for 151 students in the College of Arts & Sciences were supported by Summer Experience Grants. The grants, which come from alumni donations and a grant from the Student Assembly, help students who have unpaid or minimally-paid positions to pay for summer living expenses.
Sophomore students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity spent their first summer in person at Cornell Tech.
Prof. Kaushik Basu's new book recounts his experiences in government, as India's chief economist and as senior vice president at the World Bank.
Marco Battaglini, the Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics and Eleonora Patacchini, the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy along with their coauthor Valerio Leone Sciabolazza were selected for the Best Article on Effective Lawmaking published in 2020 for their paper titled "Effectiveness of Connected...
The Department of Economics is delighted to welcome the following new faculty members and post-docs: Jamein CunninghamJamein Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Economics in the Brooks School of Public Policy. He held previous positions as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Memphis and at Portland State...
On June 29, after approximately five years of waiting and of fading hopes, long-time ILR School professor Ron Ehrenberg received a kidney transplant.Wonderful news, yes – but that’s only half the story.The kidney came not from a stranger but from his friend and colleague at the ILR School, associate professor Adam Seth Litwin, who spent more...
Another 444,000 Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week, the lowest level since March 14, 2020. At the opposite end of the unemployment spectrum, 4.2 million Americans are long-term unemployed, meaning they’ve been jobless for 27 weeks or more, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.“When people are...
Steve Yeh, Uri M. Possen Memorial Award, Summa Cum LaudeFavorite Memory: "Working late-nights on macroeconomic problem sets with Zebang Xu over at Rockefeller Hall."Who most impacted your experience as an Economics major? "Under the tutelage and guidance of Prof. Tommaso Denti, I learned how to think about interesting research questions in...
Ben Furnas, alumni of Cornell University '06, who was an Economics/Government major, was appointed director of the New York Mayor's Office of Climate and Sustainability. This office works on reducing New York City's negative impact on climate change, the use of fossil fuels, and furthering environmental justice."While Furnas has lived in some of...
The Cornell Economics Community is proud to support and promote the work of our students who are seeking employment following the completion of their doctoral program. We are happy to announce the 2021 job market placements.The graduate program of study is designed to train for research careers as faculty in public policy programs, public health...
The Department of Economics is delighted to announce that Cosimo Fabrizio, an A&S junior from South Orange, New Jersey majoring in Economics and Government, is the latest Cornellian to win the nationally competitive Harry Truman Scholarship. The scholarship provides $30,0000 toward graduate school for juniors committed to careers in public...
On behalf of the Department of Economics, thank you to the alumni, families, and current students who donated on Giving Day 2021. We can report that we raised at least $3,585 from 26 gifts to the department.Much of what we are able to do in the Department of Economics is due to the generous support of our alumni. Your contributions help us to...
Giulia Brancaccio, assistant professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Department of Economics and Evan Riehl, assistant professor in the Department of Economics and ILR School have been named faculty fellows of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). They are two of over a dozen faculty fellows announced for the 2021-2022 cohort. The...