Cornell's Upward Bound program, which prepares high schoolers in Groton and Elmira for college, has received $1.3 million in funding that will allow the program to expand to Newfield and Spencer-Van Etten.
A national study of higher ed administrators has found that female department chairs, deans and provosts have different attitudes and beliefs than their male counterparts about how to retain women professors in STEM fields.
“Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion,” co-edited by Morten H. Christiansen, highlights the integrating role of cultural evolution across the social sciences and the humanities, similar to that of organic evolution in biology.
Professor emerita of architecture Bonnie Graham McDougall died Nov. 26 at age 76. She was an expert on South Asian architecture and culture whose research and teaching interests included anthropology and linguistics.
A national commission that included leaders from CALS announced May 16 a comprehensive, coordinated effort to solve food and nutrition security challenges that pose humanitarian, environmental and national security risks.
A national effort to rethink how graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are trained was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science panel that included remarks from Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell professor of science communication.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Cornell $175,000 to offer a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the comparative study of cultures; it will focus on political will.
A new paper from Cornell psychology professor Morten Christiansen argues language processing, acquisition and evolution, as well as the structure of language itself, are profoundly shaped by fundamental limitations on sensory and cognitive memory.
A newly published examination of reasons for female academics’ ongoing underrepresentation in math-intensive fields analyzes a very long list of purported culprits – before coming to a surprising conclusion.