Some people are genetically predisposed to see the world darkly, according to a study from the laboratory of a researcher now on the faculty of Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
Graduate student Ayuen Ajok recently told middle school students what it was like to be a Lost Boy of Sudan. He fled his village in 1987 and walked for thousands of miles, often without food or water.
TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson said the finance industry is policing itself and called for better personal finance education at the Johnson's Durland Lecture Oct. 17.
An interdisciplinary conference exploring representations of gender and race in magazines will be held Oct. 25-27 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.
Sera Young, Ph.D. ’08, a research scientist in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been awarded the 2013 annual Margaret Mead Award, considered one of the most prestigious anthropology awards for junior faculty or scholars.
A new Cornell study reports that older mothers' tend to feel that the adult child with the closest values and beliefs to their own is their favorite, and that they prefer that child as their caregiver as they age.
