Benjamin Franco Suarez took a break from his doctoral sociology studies at Cornell in 1972. He finished his study of fertility behavior of Bolivian Aymara women this year at age 90.
When pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics, psychology and biology, women faculty candidates lose despite preferences to hire women in STEM.
Peter Lepage, professor of physics and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the college’s first director of education innovation.
A new study by Corinna Lockenhoff, from Weill Cornell Medicine, is the first to quantitatively compare attitudes about aging across modern and traditional societies.
In an Oct. 1 campus talk, Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, professor of development sociology, said the population structure of a nation is the most important factor in resource allocations and policy.
From Buffalo to Long Island, the North Country to the Southern Tier, Cornell undergraduates – serving as interns – spent their summer enhancing life in New York.
Examining changes in parental unions near the time of childbirth, Cornell social science researchers have found that premarital births do not predict breakups so long as couples marry – at some point – after a child is born.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' new three-year theme project will examine causes and outcomes of U.S. mass incarceration and contribute to the prison reform policy debates on incarceration.
