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Cornell in Washington: Information Session 1/30, 5pm
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Cornell housing & classes
Internship of your choosing
Exclusive events in DC
Interested in having an experience away while participating in an internship of your choice and earning Cornell credit? Then Cornell in Washington is the program for you! CIW students get to live in the heart of Washington, D.C. and experience the amazing opportunities the city has to offer. While living in DC students will take Cornell classes at Cornell’s satellite campus, the Wolpe Center. Students also have the opportunity to gain immeasurable career experience through an internship of their choosing!
Speakers
John Cawley
Professor
John Cawley is a Professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy, and in the Department of Economics, at Cornell University. John is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an Honorary Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
In the Cornell in Washington program, John teaches a course on “The Economics and Regulation of Risky Health Behaviors.” Much of John’s research concerns the economics of obesity; he studies the economic causes of obesity, the economic consequences of obesity, and economic approaches to obesity treatment and prevention. For his research, John has received the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and the Charles C. Shepard Science Award in Prevention and Control from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. John is also a two-time recipient of the Kappa Omicron Nu Award for Excellence in Advising of students at Cornell.