Events on campus during Orientation Week include the annual Dump and Run sale, free Cornell Cinema screenings and a block party for new students, and Cornell Plantations' annual Harder Lecture. (Aug. 18, 2011)
Food is vital for human life, promotes pleasure and prevents disease. Though biological scientists have studied food and nutrition in depth, few sociologists have focused on them as social problems.
At a conference on the faculty of the future, faculty members, policy-makers and members of educational organizations said that more efforts are needed to reduce attrition rates in doctoral programs.
Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, whose innovations may allow for ample electricity and for detecting trace amounts of explosives, has received a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
A Dec. 16 conference, co-organized by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, examined the psychological and neurological consequences of war. (Dec. 18, 2009)
The year in which IQ is tested can make the difference between life and death for a death row inmate. It also can determine the eligibility of children for special services, adults' Social Security benefits and recruits' suitability for certain military careers, according to a new study by Cornell University researchers. That's because IQ scores tend to rise 5 to 25 points in a single generation. This so-called "Flynn effect" is corrected by toughening up the test every 15 to 20 years to reset the mean score to 100. A score from a test taken at the end of one cycle can vary widely from a score derived from a test taken at the beginning of the next cycle, when the test is more difficult, says Stephen J. Ceci, professor of human development at Cornell. (December 3, 2003)
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.