Tatiana Homonoff, assistant professor of policy analysis and management, won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation award for her dissertation scholarship.
The paper showed that the income growth of the U.S. middle class, long portrayed as stagnant, may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists. (Nov. 6, 2012)
Ernie Stringer, a Cornell visiting scholar, gave a talk on how to do action research for public change as part of the Engaged Cornell Speaker Series. (Nov. 5, 2012)
Third-year Cornell Law School student Fatmata Kabia is raising funds to support the next issue of Memunatu, a magazine she founded that serves West African teenage girls.
More than 45 Cornell scholars will be among the 4,600 sociologists sharing their recent research at the annual American Sociological Association meetings, Aug. 20-23. The research addresses society's most pressing problems.
Archaeologist Sturt Manning and colleagues have precisely dated an arid climate event circa 2200 B.C. through tree ring samples taken from an Egyptian coffin.
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Only 2.5 percent of people who have a medical emergency in a public place got help from strangers before emergency medical personnel arrived. African-Americans were less than half as likely as Caucasians to get help.