Psychologist Valerie Reyna and colleagues have developed a computer-based system using artificial intelligence to mimic one-on-one human tutoring to guide women making difficult decisions regarding preventive testing.
Those unflattering pictures of the opposing candidate, used in attack ads blanketing American media this month, are not merely manipulative. Political partisans really do believe their leaders are better looking, a study shows.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," singer Joni Mitchell lamented in the 1970s. Three decades later, they are demolishing a parking lot and paving the way for a paradise.
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)
The theme of this year's event was 'Worker Power and the '08 Election: Is Change for Real?' and despite the absence of a keynote speaker due to an emergency, events were well attended. (April 21, 2008)
Morgan Ruelle, a Ph.D. candidate in the field of natural resources, is working with Ethiopians to augment native knowledge with Western science to deal with climate change.
Michele Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education, has announced that she has accepted the positions of dean at Columbia College and vice president for undergraduate education.
More than 50 years ago, a Cornell mission to a small village in Peru made profound changes, some good, some bad. Today, Cornell may help the community again. (July 23, 2009)
Senate filibuster rules "get in the way of policy change that could reduce inequality of all kinds, including income inequality," says Cornell's Peter K. Enns. "Significant changes in policy won’t come without institutional reform.”