Inequality minor leads to research career for Elissa Cohen '12

Elissa Cohen '12 gave a talk on campus Nov. 3 about how her minor in inequality and other courses helped prepare her for a job at the Urban Institute's Income and Benefits Policy Center.

Gender and politics expert examines sexism in campaigns

Jennifer Lawless, a nationally recognized expert on women in politics, examined the reasons for the underrepresentation of women in politics in the final Making of the President Series talk Nov. 14.

Layered paint and propaganda: Mellon seminar visits Cuba

Students in a Mellon collaborative studies seminar in architecture, urbanism and the humanities spent eight days in Cuba this semester to study the island's changing politics and environment.

Fall Hans Bethe Lecture to focus on 'spooky action'

Physicist Anton Zeilinger will explore how quantum entanglement has been applied to cryptography, teleportation and even communication satellites Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall.

Cornell sustains presidential ties to Univ. of Michigan

With the selection of Martha E. Pollack as Cornell’s 14th president, the university has chosen five of its last six leaders from Big Ten schools.

Study: Gratitude for experiences brings surprising benefits

New research shows that we feel more gratitude for what we've done than for what we have – and that kind of gratitude results in more generous behavior toward others.

International team compares English, French in the brain

Researchers at Cornell and Michigan have joined teams in France to find out if native speakers of American English and French use the same brain structures to understand a story when it is read to them in their own language.

Roundtable tries to predict future foreign policy under Trump

Three government professors described what they expected from Donald Trump's foreign policy approach Nov. 10 at the weekly lecture of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Political scientist Adam Levine recaps presidential election

Adam Levine spoke to a standing-room only crowd in McGraw Hall Nov. 10 as faculty and students joined his American Political Campaigns class for a 2016 election recap.