Cornell professor Jonathan Culler was recently elected to chair the board of directors of the New York Council for the Humanities, which supports public humanities programming across New York state.
If you think you have a knack for interior design, or just want to spruce up your own home, a new app developed by Cornell researchers may help you choose furnishings the way professionals do.
The inaugural East China Normal University/Cornell Summer School in Theory in Shanghai drew scholars from more than 40 east Asian universities for Cornell faculty-led seminars in art and media.
Twelve Cornell assistant professors have been awarded research grants by the Affinito-Stewart Grants Program from the President’s Council of Cornell Women to increase long-term retention of women.
More than 45 Cornell scholars will be among the 4,600 sociologists sharing their recent research at the annual American Sociological Association meetings, Aug. 20-23. The research addresses society's most pressing problems.
A $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to the Center for the Study of Inequality supports new research and educational opportunities on the causes and consequences of inequality.
A study of zebrafish larvae published Aug. 9 in the journal eLife for the first time reveals a circuit that determines the direction of a lightning-quick turn to escape a predator.
Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya researching elite runners to learn how a group of people from a small corner of East Africa could rise to become the most dominant athletes in the world.