The University Courses initiative, which began in 2012, will offer 18 courses this year. The courses delve deeply into topics of interest to students from a broad range of majors.
Human mothers’ experience of pain and the expression of distress occur today because human ancestors who cried for help survived in greater numbers, according a hypothesis by Cornell psychologist Barbara L. Finlay.
Having a positive attitude could be evolutionarily advantageous, according to Cornell researchers who simulated generations of evolution in a computational model.
Having mapped cell-phone signal strength, Cornell researchers find that low-income regions receive less network coverage compared to their affluent counterparts.
The School of Hotel Administration honored the Mariani family, founders of U.S. importer Banfi Vintners, and entrepreneur Sandy Solmon June 3 in New York City.
Sherry Martin, associate professor of government, won a Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. (Dec. 14, 2010)