Just as influenza vaccines employ a weakened virus to stimulate the immune system and produce antibodies against the real thing during flu season, message inoculation – with a weakened form of the other side’s argument – should arm the public with anti-baloney sentiments against persuasive messages in the future.
Delve Deeper, a course co-taught by Cornell research librarians in partnership with faculty and staff mentors, is preparing undergraduates as scholars with advanced research skills.
A Dec. 16 conference, co-organized by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, examined the psychological and neurological consequences of war. (Dec. 18, 2009)
A memorial service for Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, the "father of human paleoanthropology" in South Asia and 41-year Cornell faculty member, will be June 14 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ithaca.
Two USDA grants are furthering the research of Cornell professors Harry de Gorter and Mildred Warner into the effects of environmental policy on biofuels and development.
Envisioning an increasingly diverse America causes anxiety for a lot of white people, except, that is, whites with a defined “purpose in life,” a Cornell-Carleton University psychology study has found.
The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant awards for interdisciplinary research and conference support.
The Department of Economics has hired an undergraduate student experience coordinator and created a new undergraduate economics lounge. The changes will improve connections between more than 500 undergraduate majors.