Millennial Black women navigate when, where to express style

Millennial Black women felt they had autonomy in navigating beauty standards in their personal lives but felt more restricted at work, according to a new Cornell study.

‘Birding buddies’ build social and science communication skills

A group of nine Cornell students and nine high school students with disabilities or communication challenges in the BOCES Career Program met for 12 weeks as part of the “A BIRDSONG” Program.

A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program announces 2024-25 call for nominations

A.D. White Professor-at-Large nominations in the areas of Humanities, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences are due Monday, Nov. 27.

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Book explains how design can contribute to peace

The collection of essays by Shepley and other authors is intended for students, academics and practitioners in all design fields to inspire societal contribution and celebrate collaboration.

Workers partner ‘up’ to better themselves, study finds

A new study out of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that people tended to favor higher-paid collaborators – but only when they thought that person had superior skills and could teach them something.

Empowering online communities with NSF grant

Nori Jacoby, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded an NSF fellowship for a project to develop algorithms to more effectively harness the intelligence of crowds by improving the quality of collective evaluations

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Economics conference considers tech, political impacts on global economy

Economists from around the world will come to campus Oct. 3-5 to explore the changing global economy. The conference is open to the public.

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Reducing the cultural bias of AI with one sentence

“Cultural prompting” – asking an AI model to perform a task like someone from another part of the world – resulted in reduced bias in responses for the vast majority of the more than 100 countries tested by a Cornell-led research group.

Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.