Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development, is the 2014 recipient of the Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from The Gerontological Society of America.
Mobile dating apps that allow users to filter their searches by race – or rely on algorithms that pair up people of the same race – reinforce racial divisions and biases, according to a new paper by Cornell researchers.
Nine projects, many multidisciplinary, are receiving grants of approximately $155,000 this year from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
College of Human Ecology students tied dozens of red ribbons on trees lining East Avenue, Tower Road and the Arts Quad, signaling the start of this weekend’s sesquicentennial celebration.
Visual content on social media sites present challenges to blind users. Cornell researchers suggest that the technology used on Facebook and other social media sites should be adapted to improve accessibility.
The College of Art and Sciences’ Program on Ethics and Public Life hosts a semester-long, in-depth lecture series on inequality starting Feb. 8. Lectures are Mondays at 4:30 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell will host a conference showcasing cutting-edge research in computational social science with alumni and other noted scholars in the discipline Sept. 11-12 with alumni and industry speakers.
Six doctoral students in the field of government presented papers and met fellow Ph.D. students and faculty interested in global security at a workshop May 23-25 in Sweden.
At the New Rural-Urban Interface held Sept. 29-30, social scientists from Cornell and elsewhere gathered to discuss the cultural, demographic, economic and political dimensions of the changing landscape.