Children – especially teens – growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods face greater odds of unhealthy weight gain as adults, according to new research by a Cornell sociologist.
Second-year MFA students in Cornell’s creative writing program read their works in front of editors, agents and publicists at a Nov. 12 event in New York City.
Historian Nancy Isenberg will discuss class and privilege in America at the Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture May 4 at 4:30 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Assistant professors Jeremy Baskin, Song Lin and Brad Ramshaw have been named recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships, supporting early-career faculty members’ original research and broad-based education related to science, technology and economic performance.
Sarah Kreps, professor of government, studies artificial intelligence and misinformation. She comments on news that the World Health Organization is working with Google to limit the spread of misinformation related to the coronavirus, and the role of tech companies in limiting the spread of fake news.
Cornell engineers used laser pulses to control changeable properties in a quantum material, pioneering a method that may have wide applications across a class of materials with immense technological interest.
New research by Judith Byfield, associate professor of history, offers a different lens through which to understand women's political history in post-World War II Nigeria.
Geoffrey Coates is leading a team of Cornell researchers working on the next generation of environment-friendly plastics as part of the Center for Sustainable Polymers, which received a five-year, $20 million grant renewal from the NSF.
The recommendations to refocus the College of Human Ecology and form several “superdepartments” are the latest steps in a multiyear review of how to strengthen the social sciences at Cornell.
