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.
Cornell's "Freedom on the Move" project will compile all 18th and 19th century North American runaway slave advertisements into a collaborative database of information.
Christopher (Kit) Dobyns '13, an Africana studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the winner of a 2012 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. (April 5, 2012)
Nicolas van de Walle, government professor at Cornell University whose research focuses on democratization and the politics of economic reform in Africa, says the coup may temper Mugabe’s excesses but is unlikely to bring about political reform.
New research shows that we feel more gratitude for what we've done than for what we have – and that kind of gratitude results in more generous behavior toward others.
Walter LaFeber, Cornell professor of history emeritus, will receive the American Historical Association’s 2013 Award for Scholarly Distinction in January.
A new paper from Cornell psychology professor Morten Christiansen argues language processing, acquisition and evolution, as well as the structure of language itself, are profoundly shaped by fundamental limitations on sensory and cognitive memory.
Events this week include the LEGO Expo in Duffield Hall, a Science Cabaret on bread for locavores, folk music and guitar lessons, films, and a reception for new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum.
Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.
