The Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in the Brooks School of Public Policy will host a panel discussion on involving STEM professionals in policymaking at 9 am this Wednesday. This panel will feature former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) and Mark Bayer, former Chief of Staff for Sen. Edward Markey. They will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and need for STEM students and practitioners to become involved in public policymaking and electoral politics. Please follow the QR code to register.

Thursday April 18 @9-10am in 128 Olin Hall REGISTER NOW

Join us for a panel discussion about how STEM students can become more engaged in government and public policy-making. A light breakfast will be offered.

Questions? please contact jbw249@cornell.edu

Speakers

Representative Tom Davis, Distinguished Policy Fellow, Cornell Brooks School, a former Republican congressman for the state of Virginia. He served seven terms and authored more than 100 bills that became law.

Mark Bayer, Former Senate Chief of Staff and Founder , Bayer Strategic Consulting.

About the host

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, launched in fall 2021, harnesses the university’s wide-ranging expertise in public policy teaching, research and engagement into a shared academic home, offering new and expanded undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and professional public policy courses and degrees. Established and new policy-focused institutes and programs boost the Brooks School’s scholarship and outreach activities. The school’s faculty, with expertise in every region of the world, apply a global, interdisciplinary and solution-oriented focus to a broad set of public policy issues.

Building upon existing and developing academic strengths at Cornell, the school’s core areas of focus include data science and technology policy; environmental and sustainability policy; health policy; human security; the politics and economics of development; race, racism and public policy; and social policy and inequality.

Institute of Politics and Global Affairs

As a nonpartisan institute, the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs raises the discourse and deepens understanding of volatile political and global events. The Institute connects the Cornell community to major national and global leaders.