Young people leave upstate New York at typical rates, but the rate of young people moving here is extraordinarily low. A panel discussion Dec. 2 looked at ways to change that scenario.
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)
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)
A new study by Cornell psychologists suggests that science and engineering faculty preferred women two-to-one over identically qualified male candidates for assistant professor positions.
New study finds low-income children with illegal parents aren't as healthy as other low-income children, nor do they have the same access to health care. (Sept. 11, 2012)
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
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)
Political scientist Jamila Michener expands the "broken windows theory" - used by social scientists to explain bad behavior in bad neighborhoods: criminals feel comfortable there - to show how some people's discomfort with bad neighborhoods inspires good behavior.
Murad Idris, a postdoctoral associate in the government department and a Mellon Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, discussed peace across the history of political thought on campus March 8.