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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.