As a faculty member in resource policy and management, Richard Stedman’s teaching, outreach, and research focus on the interaction between social and ecological systems. His training is in sociology, and he uses the theories and methodologies of this discipline as a lens for examining a broad array of human/environment conflicts. He is particularly interested in the challenges that rapid social and ecological changes pose for the sustainability of forested ecosystems, watersheds, and human communities.

Thomas Seeley, College of Arts and Sciences, teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees.

Fred Schneider's research supports the construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings. 

Ted O'Donoghue is the Zubrow Professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Helen Nissenbaum is a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Information Science. She is the director of the Digital Life Initiative, launched in 2017 at Cornell Tech, which explores societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. Her research takes an ethical perspective on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media, and data science.

Greg Morrisett is the dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, a New York City–based campus focused on graduate education that integrates technology, business, law, and design in service of economic impact and societal good.

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, with additional collaborations as a Cornell Atkinson Sustainable Future Senior Faculty Fellow, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Faculty Associate, and a Faculty Fellow in the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, and won the

Stacey A. Langwick, College of Arts and Sciences, is an anthropologist of healing and medicine in Africa. 

Lori Khatchadourian examines the ongoing effort to grapple with the relationship between imperialism and the vast world of material things.

Andre Kessler is a chemical ecologist in the College of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on the mechanisms, ecological consequences, and the evolution of plant induced responses to herbivore damage.