Finding your calling at Cornell
Three members of the A&S Class of 2024 share wisdom for incoming students about taking advantage of all of Cornell's resources.
Read moreThe department of government offers students a variety of opportunities to engage with politics and political science, beginning in the classroom, with the chance to work one-on-one with faculty; by participating in internships, and by drawing on the department's ties with programs across the College of Arts and Sciences.
Ethan Felder is an associate at the labor law firm Koehler & Isaacs LLP. Ethan represents public and private sector labor unions and their members in all aspects of their employment. He handles contract grievances, unfair labor practices cases, disability hearings, federal litigations in New York City and across the metropolitan area. Ethan completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University (major: Government) and his graduate studies in law and business at Washington University in St. Louis. When not on the job, Ethan is also a community activist having organized a half dozen solidarity rallies in his hometown of Forest Hills, Queens.
Three members of the A&S Class of 2024 share wisdom for incoming students about taking advantage of all of Cornell's resources.
Read moreHarrison’s return to Cornell this March was a testament to his words and a celebration of his experience tackling interdisciplinary studies as a college scholar of social psychology and government during his undergraduate years.
Read moreJournalist Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, who exposed the realities of violence perpetrated by the military in his native Myanmar, has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support his work toward a Ph.D. in political science at Cornell.
Read moreCampus event honored Marine Corps Maj. Richard Gannon ’95, who was just 31 when he died in Iraq two decades ago
Read moreOrganized by trans Cornellians, the event will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective.
Read moreReflecting on his time on campus as this year's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist during the university's Freedom of Expression theme year, David Folkenflik '91 says "freedom of expression isn't at its most potent as an issue or principle when it's easy. In some ways, it matters most when it’...
Read moreWe live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Scien...
Read moreRachel Beatty Riedl, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, will serve as the first director of the new Center on Global Democracy.
Read more“The leadership experience I was afforded as co-editor of the Cornell Progressive and president of the Cornell Democrats helped me,” he said. “I was getting people to feel like they were a part of something and had a common cause, and motivating people to work when there were a whole lot of other things they could be doing on campus.”