In a rural part of upstate New York, students with access to school-based health centers received more medical care and missed less school, Cornell researchers found.
Despite broad scientific consensus that climate change has more serious consequences for some groups – particularly those already socially or economically disadvantaged – a large swath of people in the U.S. doesn’t see it that way.
Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern not solely due to gender representation across disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell and the University of Washington.
Research by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in CALS, found that Reddit community members who fact-checked suspect stories led to those stories being dropped in the website’s rankings.
In their project, “Mostly Harmless Statistical Decision Theory,” three Cornell economists in A&S will develop innovative methods for data-driven policy choices.
In a study by Cornell psychology researchers, female applicants for scholarships or jobs were viewed less favorably than males when study participants, acting as decision-makers, were shown “sexy” social media photos of the applicants.