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June 22, 2021

Professor John Cawley has been named the next director of the long-standing Cornell in Washington program, which will also move organizationally into the new Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public...

June 15, 2021

By James Dean  Colleen L. Barry, a nationally recognized policy scholar and leader in the areas of mental health, addiction and gun violence, has been named the inaugural dean of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Provost...

June 15, 2021

Colleen L. Barry, a professor and department chair at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s first dean, effective Sept....

June 15, 2021

The holiday celebrates the day enslaved people gained their freedom. But they lacked political power then, as Black people too often do today, says associate professor Jamila...

June 10, 2021

The major gift from the Brooks family, whose Cornell roots span three generations, provides an early boost to help the university’s newest school achieve world-class...

June 10, 2021

By James Dean A major gift will endow and name the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, advancing the nascent school’s long-term mission to help solve complex global policy challenges, from inequality to sustainability. The...

April 1, 2021

The $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill signed into law on March 11 is offering lowered health insurance premiums — the monthly payments associated with insurance plans — for as many as 29 million Americans, drastically relieving the...

February 25, 2021

A year after the provost announced plans to create a School of Public Policy, following a multiyear review of how to elevate Cornell’s excellence and prominence in the social sciences, the search for its first dean is...

January 1, 1970

Senior Lecturer Nick Fabrizio, from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, shares his insights on the future of work....