“Corruption is deeper than whether someone is making backroom deals. Instead, it’s a sense that the game itself is rigged in favor of a select few,” says Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute.

Caitie Barrett, professor of archaeology, discusses the meaning of an amulet found in a Pompeii site.

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy, discusses what is needed to build a strong manufacturing sector in America.

After escaping the Taliban, nine women arrived at Cornell. The first to complete their degrees are part of the Class of 2025.

“The sense is that the world has changed fundamentally in ways that cannot easily be put back together. Every country has to figure out its own place in this new world order and how to protect its own interests,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

Barry Strauss, professor of history, says “The rules they followed in Rome were not necessarily applied in godforsaken Eboracum. So, although the man was probably not a gladiator, he may indeed have been one. Burial in the gladiator cemetery is certainly an argument in favor of that theory.”

“We had been thinking about this as the prisoners’ dilemma, but we were wrong,” says Tom Pepinsky, professor of government.

Marielena Hincapié, distinguished immigration scholar, talks about the Trump administration's efforts to deport migrants living in the United States.

Kathryn Fiorella, assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, and Sebastian Heilpern, postdoctoral associate at CVM, discuss seafood. 

“Min Aung Hlaing is leveraging the earthquake for regional engagement and electoral legitimacy. The humanitarian crisis gives him a pretext to open channels he’d long shut,” says Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, graduate student.