Stephen Paletta '87, winner of the reality TV show 'Oprah's Big Give' in April 2008, is helping to organize a service-learning trip to Rwanda for eight Cornell students starting June 4. (May 19, 2009)
'Cognitive advantages follow from becoming bilingual,' says Barbara Lust, a developmental psychology and linguistics expert. 'These cognitive advantages can contribute to a child's future academic success.'
Government professors Benedict Anderson, Ph.D. '67, and Peter Katzenstein have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. (May 7, 2009)
The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. (May 6, 2009)
On April 29, the 2006-09 Contentious Knowledge team summarized its research on how scientific and social scientific expertise shapes public policy and becomes a focal point of social and political conflict. (May 6, 2009)
Assistant professor Michael Goldstein has received a $352,000 National Science Foundation grant over the next three years to learn more about how infants learn to talk. (May 6, 2009)
Freshmen at three universities this fall will be asked to participate in a study to determine how roommates and social networks affect students' mental health. (May 4, 2009)
For the fourth year in a row, a class in the College of Human Ecology is giving $10,000 to local nonprofit organizations in the Ithaca community as part of a learning experience about philanthropy. (May 4, 2009)
Students recently presented their research, which ranged from culinary myths of egg whites and judging sexual orientation, to the theory of children's picture books and emotional influences on gambling. (May 1, 2009)
