The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is a focal point for a growing network of film and media studies scholars across campus, with two recent conferences and nine faculty members added to the graduate field. (May 6, 2009)
The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. (May 6, 2009)
On April 29, the 2006-09 Contentious Knowledge team summarized its research on how scientific and social scientific expertise shapes public policy and becomes a focal point of social and political conflict. (May 6, 2009)
Assistant professor Michael Goldstein has received a $352,000 National Science Foundation grant over the next three years to learn more about how infants learn to talk. (May 6, 2009)
Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg has received the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques and studies of networking. (May 5, 2009)
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants selected from a pool 11 proposals as part of the Winter 2009 Seed Grant Competition.
The magazine also ranked Cornell Law School No. 13, and the Johnson School No. 17. Weill Cornell came in at No. 18 for research and No. 58 for primary care. (May 4, 2009)
William Chen '09, a fine arts major in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, won the Department of Psychology's universitywide art competition by basing a work on his own thought process. (May 1, 2009)
Students recently presented their research, which ranged from culinary myths of egg whites and judging sexual orientation, to the theory of children's picture books and emotional influences on gambling. (May 1, 2009)
