Researchers from every corner of Cornell are mobilizing to tackle one of the grand challenges of the modern era – migration – with a new initiative that launched Oct. 1.
Audio from 44 "American Ideals" lectures by legendary Cornell Professo Milton Konvitz, which many Cornellians say shaped their lives, is now available online through DigitalCommons@ILR.
At Social Mobility in an Unequal World Conference April 20, Stanford's David Grusky's discussed absolute mobility rates: children who earn more than their parents did at the same age.
The recently completed online resource "Cornerstones in American Middle Class: Historical Collective Bargaining Agreements Project" at the ILR School's Kheel Center is seeing heavy traffic from scholars.
An international team of researchers, including a Cornell cognitive scientist, reports physiological evidence showing how the brain combines words into phrases in real time during reading.
Students in the Ceramic Analysis for Archeology class, who study ancient pottery shards, made some new pottery of their own, acquainting them with the process used by human forebears.
New Cornell research published in Nature Human Behavior sheds light on how we can use other people’s opinions to make our own decisions. It also has implications for more effective online recommender algorithms.
Examining changes in parental unions near the time of childbirth, Cornell social science researchers have found that premarital births do not predict breakups so long as couples marry – at some point – after a child is born.