The timing of others’ reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning, Cornell developmental psychologists found - with help from a remote-controlled car.
Can an increase in knowledge ever be a bad thing? Yes, says economics professor Kaushik Basu and a colleague – when people use it to act in their own self-interest rather than in the best interests of the larger group.
The death of a top donor during an electoral cycle decreases the likelihood that a candidate will be elected by more than three percentage points, according to an innovative new study by Cornell economists and colleagues.
The program in the College of Arts & Sciences provides undergraduate students with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.
Nicolas van de Walle, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, who played a formative role in the field of comparative politics, died on July 15. He was 67.
Hector Aguilar-Carreño and Marjolein van der Meulen join Natalie Bazarova, who was appointed to the role in 2023, to support research communities and core facilities, labs, institutes and centers that span colleges and campuses.
A Cornell team used a new form of high-resolution optical imaging to better understand how adsorption – i.e., the clinging of molecules to surfaces – works on the semiconductor titanium dioxide with a gold particle added as a co-catalyst.
“Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” opening July 20 at the Johnson Museum, brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.
