ILR Assistant Professor Yiran Zhang has published a pair of papers exploring the garment supply chain in China – both factory jobs and informal, home-based ones that have sprung up out of need as women try to make money while also serving as “companion mothers” to their school-aged children.
After two pilot issues, the journal has launched a media-rich inaugural volume, "Sovereignty / Populism," and dedicated itself to disseminating experimental scholarship and creative work to a broad audience.
Sixty-three graduate students completed international fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Applications are open until March 7 for graduate students seeking support for summer 2025.
The Feb. 28 event will provide a forum for scientists, social scientists and humanities scholars to discuss challenges to research support in response to recent major changes to federal funding.
Knowing the duration and timing of when migratingmallard ducks – natural carriers of avian influenza – stop and rest can help predict the probability that they will infect backyard poultry flocks.
Don Turcotte, the former Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences who brought his aeronautic research roots into pioneering collaborations in the study of mantle dynamics and plate tectonics, died Feb. 4 in Davis, California.
Students, scientists and artists have joined forces to present a Cornell University Library exhibit designed to spread awareness about non-native plants and insects threatening ecosystems in New York state.
Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
A Cornell-led team has developed a method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers using underwater microphones and machine learning, potentially offering a safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this endangered species.
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend toward the sun.
