Social & Behavioral Sciences

Already sharing services, NYS schools could do more

Property tax rebates could come to New York homeowners when school districts share services.

$4.5M project focuses on hope and optimism

A $3.8 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation will fund a new research project on hope and optimism, co-directed by Cornell philosophy professor Andrew Chignell.

Survey: 'Mostly heterosexuals' have more health problems

At 7 percent of the population, newly identified minority on the sexual-orientation continuum, the mostly heterosexuals, have more mental-health problems than most.

Advocate for people with disabilities wins Truman scholarship

Teresa Danso-Danquah ’15, an ILR School student who has worked on advocating for people with disabilities at Cornell nationally and internationally, has been named a 2014 Truman Scholar.

Childhood obesity survey finds creative solutions

Creative solutions where voiced when Cornell researchers asked public officials: What to do about childhood obesity?

Panel tackles lessons of Rwanda genocide

Cornell faculty, a U.N. official and a survivor of the Rwanda genocide reflected on the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe on campus April 18.

Krauthammer: Obamacare is a 'clumsy beast'

Conservative political commentator and psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer put forth opinions on Obamacare and bioethics on campus April 16.

Chocolate milk ban riles schoolchildren

The Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs surveyed students in 11 Oregon schools following the banning of chocolate milk.

MacArthur grant funds Reppy Institute research

Cornell’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies will administer at $370,000, two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to further its studies.