Even when grants fund network construction, high operating costs pose significant challenges for rural broadband cooperatives seeking to expand access, according to new research from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Working to address a knowledge gap, the College of Human Ecology launched the Data Science and Programming Curriculum Initiative to teach students how to use data and technology in their respective disciplines.
According to new research, having college-bound friends increases the likelihood that a student will enroll in college but that effect is diminished for Black and Latino students.
Sarah Kreps started the lab to research the growing connections and potential disruptions at the intersection of technology and government, many of them related to artificial intelligence.
In fall 2020, the village of Waterloo, New York, asked Cornell design students how to transform a deteriorating 1890s building into an art center. By December, they had delivered.
Neuroimaging results suggest white political conservatives might overcategorize mixed-race faces as Black not because of an aversion to Blackness, but because of an affective reaction to racial mixing more generally.
The Office of Academic Integration has awarded $750,000 in seed grants to 10 studies ranging from refugee health and legal rights, to a vaccine treating fentanyl addiction and overdose, to pancreatic cancer and antibiotic tolerance.
Maria D. Fitzpatrick is a professor of economics and public policy and in 2020 she was named Cornell’s new associate vice provost for social sciences. She also is continuing her own robust research program, focusing on child and family policy.
