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.
Benedict Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, has received the 2011 Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council. (Jan. 12, 2012)
Top Cornell and visiting academics take on the ramifications of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an open discussion Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m., Statler Hall Auditorium. (Sept. 7, 2011)
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
It takes “highly diagnostic” information – the kind that is especially revealing of a person’s true nature or character – to change a first impression, Cornell psychologists discover.