Older mothers are more prone to depression if their adult children struggle with serious problems such as financial difficulties or alcohol or drug abuse, according to a new study.
More than 500 middle and high school students from across New York gathered at Cornell’s Ithaca campus June 26-28 to participate in workshops taught by Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students during the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference.
Posting personal experiences on social media makes those events much easier to recall, according to a new study by Qi Wang, professor of human development. The research is the first to look at social media's effect on memory.
New research by Adam Anderson, professor of Human Development at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, reveals how the eyes have come to be viewed as windows into the soul.
A New York state subsidy of 5 cents per school lunch just one day per week for the purchase of local fruits and vegetables would likely boost New York farmers and local economies, a new report finds.
Four endowed professorships have been established through a challenge grant initiated by longtime Cornell benefactors Joan Klein Jacobs '54 and Irwin Mark Jacobs '54, founding chairman and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, as part of a $10 million commitment to the college in 2014.
Why would five Cornell professors decide to teach a class when there was no budget to pay them to do it? For the directors of Cornell’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center, the reason is the subject of the course: Better Decisions for Life, Love and Money.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' newest project, China's Cities: Divisions and Plans, is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort among Cornell social scientists.
A research team is linking "everyday unfair treatment" with higher incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and other life-limiting conditions in African-Americans.
Self-employed women working in digital creative industries, such as blogging or marketing, feel compelled to conduct business online in a traditionally feminine way, said Brooke Duffy, assistant professor of communication.