A new research field – “environmental technology, or envirotech” – is emerging during an age when food systems span the globe, waste pollutes the natural world and natural disasters seem to have higher impacts on communities.
Men continue to be much more likely to earn a degree in STEM fields than women. Research from Cornell's Center for the Study of Inequality offers unexpected hope in closing this gender gap.
Cornell Tech’s Women in Technology & Entrepreneurship in New York program – now to be known as Break Through Tech – will expand nationally, starting in Chicago.
In this era of rising atmospheric temperatures, Shorna Allred discussed her concerns about preserving the world’s indigenous societies during her keynote address Dec. 6 at Cornell’s 2018 Sustainability Leadership Summit.
Richard Newell Boyd, the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters Emeritus, died in his sleep in Cleveland, Ohio on Feb. 20. He was 78.
Judith Peraino, professor of music, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research artist Andy Warhol’s influence on pop and rock musicians in the 1970s, including David Bowie and Lou Reed.
K-12 schools across the country are closing or moving to online education to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government says during times of public health crisis the consequences of inequalities surface and it’s going to be a huge challenge to support K-12 students facing school closures at home and also in their communities.
Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, spoke about factors contributing to widespread eviction in a Nov. 16 campus talk.
In "Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America," historian Julilly Kohler-Hausmann examines political choices and discourse that have led to mass incarceration and rising inequality.
