The Purpose Science and Innovation Exchange, an initiative in the College of Human Ecology that launched in April to study the burgeoning field of purpose, has received a $3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
In a new book, bioarcheologist Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention, one that overlooked significant diversity in lived experience.
The way perceptual systems are organized in the brain depends on the way we perform actions with our hands, according to a new theory proposed by Cornell psychology scholars.
Researchers found people who are socially rich, with strong social support but whose family had less money, and those who are economically rich, having more money but less social support, take similar levels of risk but activate different parts of their brains.
ILR School-led research found that a seller’s emotional attachment to an item influences the process through which sellers sort through the field of potential buyers to determine the course of negotiation and, ultimately, the sale.
Social Security remains broadly popular, and as the U.S. population ages, more Americans think the government should do more to help families care for older adults, new research on aging policy finds.
Oppenheim worked for 25 years in senior housing and care before starting Vitality Society, a platform offering programming and a communuity for people 60 and older.
The key to achieving goals is less about the outcome and more about enjoying the journey, according to new research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
