A recent symposium and exhibition explored the ancient practice of spolia – using scavenged materials in new construction – and its relevance to efforts in sustainable and resilient human habitation.
The College of Human Ecology's new global and public health sciences major prepares students to understand health challenges and design strategies to alleviate or prevent them.
John W. Bluford III, former president of Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, share lessons in the hospital's efforts to transform health though close community engagement.
Nearly one in five nursing home residents in 10 facilities across New York state were involved in at least one aggressive encounter with fellow residents during the four weeks prior to a study by researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell.
Nominations of underrepresented tenured faculty as sought for the Public Voices Fellowship, a new initiative to increase the public impact of the nation’s top thought leaders.
A Cornell study finds that toddlers notice subtle social clues to figure out what actions of others may be socially or culturally important, then preferentially share this information with others.
A newly published examination of reasons for female academics’ ongoing underrepresentation in math-intensive fields analyzes a very long list of purported culprits – before coming to a surprising conclusion.
A proposal for research to detect racial bias in the research peer review process has earned a second-place prize from the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review for two College of Human Ecology faculty members.
