The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is a focal point for a growing network of film and media studies scholars across campus, with two recent conferences and nine faculty members added to the graduate field. (May 6, 2009)
Assistant professor Michael Goldstein has received a $352,000 National Science Foundation grant over the next three years to learn more about how infants learn to talk. (May 6, 2009)
The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. (May 6, 2009)
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)
Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg has received the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques and studies of networking. (May 5, 2009)
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants selected from a pool 11 proposals as part of the Winter 2009 Seed Grant Competition.
A company based on Cornell technology that specializes in sentiment and opinion analysis is the latest to earn investment support from the Johnson School's student-run venture fund, BR Ventures. (May 4, 2009)
The goal for the sophomore mechanical engineering students: build a motor powered only by compressed air that would pack enough punch to push a flat cart up a slight incline. (May 4, 2009)
Freshmen at three universities this fall will be asked to participate in a study to determine how roommates and social networks affect students' mental health. (May 4, 2009)
For the fourth year in a row, a class in the College of Human Ecology is giving $10,000 to local nonprofit organizations in the Ithaca community as part of a learning experience about philanthropy. (May 4, 2009)