As the new director of the Cornell Population Center, professor Dan Lichter is uniting Cornell scholars from across campus to apply demography to pressing social and political issues. (March 26, 2012)
In a new textbook, 'Food Policy for Developing Countries,' Cornell economist Per Pinstrup-Andersen analyzes how national and international food policies can reduce poverty and improve economic growth. (Sept. 21, 2011)
Meridian 180, an online and transpacific think tank in three languages for multidisciplinary working groups from around the world to promote real policy changes, has officially launched. (March 20, 2012)
A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will help researchers translate knowledge in social science into treatments, intervention programs and policies related to pain disorders. (Dec. 7, 2009)
Cornell historian Maria Cristina Garcia discussed the problems that officials and asylum seekers face under the current laws, in a discussion with students in the Hans Bethe House Sept. 7. (Sept. 13, 2011)
New research finds that the sounds of words across languages give clues to the words' meaning, which may help those teaching a second language. (Sept. 12, 2011)
Government professor Peter Katzenstein warned against thinking that civilizations around the world are homogenous, when they are indeed pluralistic with 'shifting balances of practices.' (Feb. 23, 2011)
A dozen undergrads were thrust into the teaching trenches this fall at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca, where they shepherded 20 teenagers through a storytelling project in an after-school program they helped design.