At the Conference on the Histories of Capitalism on campus Nov. 7, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said the U.S. is devolving into a plutocracy due to disengaged voters.
Our mental pictures of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using advanced imaging techniques, report Cornell neuroscientist Nathan Spreng and colleagues.
Cornell has received a $660,000 grant to develop CITIZEN U, a universitylike program to help at-risk youths get more involved as citizens and to help them graduate from high school and go to college. (July 21, 2011)
College of Human Ecology researchers have found that children who voluntarily give something valuable away are more likely to be generous in the future.
Much as Abigail Adams found solace in writing letters to her husband more than two centuries ago, today’s distant hearts grow closer in phone calls, video chat, texting and instant messages.
Developmental Review: Perceptions in Behavior and Cognition, a journal of developmental psychology, has been named one of the three most influential journals in its field. (July 21, 2010)
A Cornell research team is joining local efforts to help design a socio-ecological corridor that could help save endangered, threatened, endemic species in Ecuador's Andes region.
Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the 2001 World Food Prize laureate, has been named 'the most important Dane in the world' in combating poverty by Denmark's leading development magazine. (Oct. 27, 2009)