The Institute for the Social Sciences is supporting 15 projects and three conferences through its biannual small grant program: $12,000 to investigators for research and $5,000 for conferences.
Suzanne Mettler, professor of government, and a colleague find that Americans like ObamaCare but do not like the "toxic" political discourse around it.
Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, and Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, have been named International Faculty Fellows.
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Only 2.5 percent of people who have a medical emergency in a public place got help from strangers before emergency medical personnel arrived. African-Americans were less than half as likely as Caucasians to get help.
A new History of Capitalism initiative from Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and the ILR School brings together scholars from across the university to examine the nature of capitalism.
Kelly Musick, associate professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, has been appointed to a five-year term as director of the Cornell Population Center.
The new interdisciplinary Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice minor in the College of Arts and Sciences offers students an engaged learning experience through the Cornell Prison Education Program.
Theda Skocpol, Cornell's A.D. White Professor-at-Large, talk on "The Koch Effect: The Impact of a Cadre-Let Network on American Politics and Public Policy" April 12 on campus.
