Ramaswami Balasubramaniam, founder of a leading Indian nonprofit development organization, visited campus Sept. 27 to encourage students to participate in global service learning. (Oct. 1, 2012)
Spending time on Facebook can be a "psychologically meaningful activity" that supplies a sense of well-being at a relatively deep level, says a Cornell communication expert.
Nine faculty-led teams conducting research with undergraduate students have received Undergraduate Engaged Research Programs grants, administered by Engaged Cornell.
The Institute for the Social Sciences is supporting 15 projects and three conferences through its biannual small grant program: $12,000 to investigators for research and $5,000 for conferences.
Cornell President David Skorton urged the 700 health economists at the American Society of Health Economists conference on campus June 20-23 to promote health care reform. (June 24, 2010)
To address inequality and the environmental crisis facing the world today people should pull together rather than compete against each other for individual gain, two faculty members urged in a Feb. 28 lecture.
The joke's on human-sexuality researchers: "Prankster" adolescents may have faked "nonheterosexuality" in a widely cited health study, says Cornell's Ritch Savin-Williams.
As part of the 225th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, a panel at the Cornell Law School examined the document's interpretation in present-day politics. (Sept. 19, 2012)