This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
More than 100 scholars from around the country shared their research and offered new perspectives at the Histories of Capitalism 2.0 conference, held at Cornell Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
A survey of women who recently gave birth found that many women change their behavior and consume less fish during pregnancy, in spite of receiving recommendations for eating fish during pregnancy.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.
James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, a professor of linguistics emeritus who did pioneering work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca at age 88.
On May 11, three Cornell Prison Education Program students beamed when judges declared them winners in a debate against the Cornell Speech & Debate Society team.
Daron Acemoglu, co-author of the 2012 economic development book 'Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity,' will deliver the George Staller Lecture March 28.
A Cornell study explored how a noisy, disorganized environment influences how much women eat. The combination of stress and a messy environment leads to more snacking and increased calories consumed.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' new three-year theme project will examine causes and outcomes of U.S. mass incarceration and contribute to the prison reform policy debates on incarceration.
Led by Cornell's Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent during the late 2000s housing bust.