A new study led by Anthony Ong reports that the poorer health that widows and widowers experience is from the steep drop in positive emotions, rather than the jump in negative emotions. (April 11, 2011)
'Rural Retirement Migration,' a book written by Cornell development sociologists David L. Brown and Nina Glasgow, details the positive and negative effects of older people moving into communities. (Aug. 21, 2008)
In a talk to alumni Oct. 21, Jeff Hancock shared his research into the veracity of online communications and what scientists can extract from it. (Oct. 21, 2011)
On April 29, the 2006-09 Contentious Knowledge team summarized its research on how scientific and social scientific expertise shapes public policy and becomes a focal point of social and political conflict. (May 6, 2009)
Professor Mary Beth Norton will discuss her new book, 'Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World,' April 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Cornell Store Book Department. (March 29, 2011)
A new website hopes to bring together scientists in Latin America and North America through exchange of ideas, information and equipment. (Aug. 25, 2010)
Eight students from the University of the Free State in South Africa reflected on what they observed and learned toward the end of their visit to Cornell, Oct. 5. (Oct. 10, 2011)