As many as one out of 10 people age 60 and older will experience some kind of abuse, most often in the form of financial exploitation, says a new Cornell study.
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
An ILR School professor's labor history book, “Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,” has inspired a play, running through March 20 in St. Louis.
A memorandum of understanding between Cornell and Costa Rica will bring more graduate students to the university to study public administration in the College of Human Ecology.
Projects include research on child malnutrition treatment programs in Niger and nutrient management among small livestock-crop systems in Vietnam. (Nov. 13, 2012)
At the intersection of activism and academia, a climate change and clean energy panel Feb. 26 gave details of environmental urgency and impending social refinements.
Robert J. Sternberg a professor of human development discusses his new book, "What Universities Can Be: A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership."
Sociology professor Victor Nee was recently honored by the international Academy of Management with an award for his recent book project on the emergence and growth of a private enterprise economy in China.
The quality of an idea is can be influenced by the way its discovery is described, according to new research by a postdoctoral researcher in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.