An endowment bequeathed by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of physical anthropology at Cornell for 41 years, will fund a lecture series and visiting professorship in human evolutionary biology.
Samuel B. Bacharach, author of "The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea is Not Enough," says leaders need political and managerial competence to move their agendas, drive their ideas and get results.
Social scientists have known for several years that kids enrolled in run-down schools miss more classes and have lower test scores. But they haven’t been able to pin down why. A Cornell environmental psychologist has an answer.
Very few successful people would have succeeded if they hadn't been lucky, too, economist Robert H. Frank says in his book, "Success and Luck." He calls on policymakers to create the conditions that put luck on everyone's side.
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
Blue-collar training without a strong college-preparatory focus leads to blue-collar jobs for men but penalizes women in the labor market, says April Sutton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
Each year $160 billion worth of wasted food ends up in America's landfills. A Cornell economist has received a two-year, $500,000 USDA grant to get consumers and food distributors to squander less.
More than one-third of families in large metropolitan areas now live in neighborhoods of concentrated affluence or concentrated poverty, and middle-class neighborhoods have become less common, says sociologist Kendra Bischoff.
