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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachel Harmon ’15 is the recipient of a 2015 Rhodes Scholarship. She will continue her studies and social justice work at the University of Oxford, England.
Fourteen Cornell faculty members are contributing columns to The Hill, a widely read policy website in Washington, D.C. Several columns have already appeared, offering faculty an opportunity to influence government decision makers.
Chats in the Stacks book talks this semester at Olin and Mann libraries feature faculty authors discussing politics and economics as the 2016 presidential election approaches, and other topics from poetry to religion.
Fathers who have been incarcerated tend to avoid their kid's school - not because they don't care about their child's education, but because they're afraid of the school as a surveilling institution, says sociologist Anna Haskins.
Shattering a cornerstone concept in linguistics, an analysis of more than two-thirds of the world’s languages shows humans tend to make the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter what language they’re speaking.