Chocolates and roses really do spell 'love,' researchers find

Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues finds that the closer to Valentine's Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out "l-o-v-e."

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell researchers find that women are underrepresented in the highest-prestige doctoral programs resulting in significant consequences for gender inequality in career outcomes.

Shelley Wong reflects on time, race, knowledge

Time, says Shelley Wong, "is socially constructed, continually made and remade in culturally specific ways." Wong’s book project focuses on race, time and narrative.

Obamacare Medicaid expansion improved preventive care

New research by John Cawley demonstrates for the first time that the state-level expansions of Medicaid that were promoted by the Affordable Care Act succeeded in improving preventive care among low-income Americans.

Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities

A study in PLoS ONE led by Cornell psychology professor Morten H. Christiansen provides new insight into how languages come to be composed of reusable parts.

19 Cornell faculty chosen as 2017 Public Voices fellows

Cornell’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program seeks to increase the public impact of top underrepresented thinkers in the U.S. and to help them contribute to public conversations.

James W. Gair, linguistics professor emeritus, dies at 88

James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, a professor of linguistics emeritus who did pioneering work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca at age 88.

Study examines how bias affects hiring practices

New research from Cornell University shows that hiring managers' awareness of competence among job applicants and managers' attitudes toward affirmative action help reduce prejudice in recruitment.

For kids, poverty means psychological deficits as adults

Childhood poverty can cause significant psychological deficits in adulthood, according to a new study. The research is the first to show this damage occurs over time and in a broad range of ways.