Nine projects, many multidisciplinary, are receiving grants of approximately $155,000 this year from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
Fifty-five Cornell graduates have joined the incoming Teach for America corps of 5,900 individuals this year, making Cornell the eighth-biggest contributor of new teachers this year among top colleges and universities of its size.
Researchers at Cornell and Michigan have joined teams in France to find out if native speakers of American English and French use the same brain structures to understand a story when it is read to them in their own language.
Events this week include “War and Peace” on film; the Lorelei Ensemble in Bailey Hall; a ceremony hosted by Hindu students and a reading by Desiree Cooper.
A new book edited by Cornell psychologist Robert Sternberg, “Ethical Challenges in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences: Case Studies and Commentaries," offers real-world case studies.
Using data from millions of taxi trips, a group that included math professor Steven Strogatz applies a natural rescaling law to predict the ride-sharing potential for four major cities.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a symposium at Cornell Plantations March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
In studying how airplane noise affects the palate, Cornell food scientists have found sweetness suppressed and umami- the sweet, savory taste of amino acids such as glutamate - enhanced.