Vijay Pendakur brings diverse life experiences to his role as the new Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students. Pendakur started his work at Cornell on Jan. 3.
People tend to prefer prototypical leaders even in situations that call for prototypical managers, a bias that can be tempered by deliberative thinking, according to new Cornell research.
Faculty members M. Diane Burton and Gerard Aching have accepted appointments as Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement, serving the university's public engagement mission over the next three years.
As athletes prepare for the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics, psychologist Thomas Gilovich explains why bronze medal winners appear happier than their competitors who win silver.
Cornell’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program seeks to increase the public impact of top underrepresented thinkers in the U.S. and to help them contribute to public conversations.
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, in Catherwood Library, recently digitized the anti-union files donated by former HR executive Leonard C. Scott, who specialized in combatting labor unions.
Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Elissa Cohen '12 gave a talk on campus Nov. 3 about how her minor in inequality and other courses helped prepare her for a job at the Urban Institute's Income and Benefits Policy Center.
