One of the world’s leading economists, Kaushik Basu, has written a new book that offers an innovative methodology for doing law and economics. Rooted in game theory, it could help make more effective laws and a fairer society.
This month marks the fifth year of Cornell University's bias response program. The universitywide program addresses bias activities based on race, national origin, sexual orientation and gender that were not previously addressed through existing discrimination complaint processes. (December 12, 2005)
Looking at the world through the lens of an algorithm illuminates some aspects but obscures others, says Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of science and technology studies.
Sara Warner, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences and recently named a Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow, produces a political cabaret in Ithaca Feb. 19.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, or CHESS, has been awarded $54 million from the National Science Foundation for a new subfacility, the Center for High-Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS.
The Dairy Foods Extension team received the inaugural Food Safety Leadership Award from the International Dairy Foods Association Jan. 30 for the team's work to enhance food safety.
Organic dairy farmers in the Northeast have taken a beating over the last several years due to extreme weather, but a new grant will support a project that aims at solutions.
Five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar will meet to assess the nature and value of diversity on American campuses at a July 30 symposium at Cornell University organized by the Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS), an academic think tank and research team composed of scholars from more than 25 campuses in the United States and abroad.