In this article, Alexander Colvin, dean of ILR, and Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, discuss the support and successes of unions.

Vanessa Bohns, professor of organizational behavior, discusses the benefit of attending to productive tasks during a commute, saying, “You are going to feel more satisfied because you planned ahead rather than just reacted to unpleasantness.”

Rick Geddes, professor at the Brooks School, discusses challenges to infrastructure changes, saying, “Over time, I’ve come to realize that there are so many stakeholders in a large project that could hold up or delay or prevent a project, with enormous cost to the final bill for the project, that it makes sense to include these … just to reduce that resistance.”

Katharine Phillips, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains body dysmorphic disorder.

In this article, findings of new Icefin research by Peter Washam, research associate, which shows that the undersides of deteriorating glaciers are not flat are discussed. Peter Washam says, “It paints this really neat picture of what we see with the ocean circulation being mirrored with the ice morphology.”

Article mentions OpenEvidence, which is led by scientists at Cornell, Harvard, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and uses AI to read through the latest medical research studies.

Andrew Farnsworth, a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, helped to explain the hurricane-flamingo connection. As a five-year-old, the article explains, he became fascinated by the movements of birds; “when he started work as a researcher, he discovered historical records of epic avian journeys.” 

William Michael Lynn, professor of services marketing at the Nolan School, joins WSJ Explains to expound on tipping history and culture.

“We uncovered that two different neural codes support these very important aspects of memory and cognition, and can be dissociated, as we did experimentally,” says Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior at A&S.

Alyssa Wetterau Kaganer, postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, notes, “There is innovative research going on all around the world as stellar scientists explore different frog immunity, genetics, microbiome, and environmental treatment options.”

David Bateman, associate professor of government, says, “The biggest threat to trust in institutions was the Trump campaign’s refusal to concede the election and insistence that they had won. That validated the idea that the whole institutional system is rigged, which it isn’t.”

This article discusses the benefits of prison education and mentions that Cornell offers liberal arts education in four upstate New York prisons.