Despite broad scientific consensus that climate change has more serious consequences for some groups – particularly those already socially or economically disadvantaged – a large swath of people in the U.S. doesn’t see it that way.
Researchers from the Brooks School combined DMV suspension records with drivers’ ZIP code data and found that drivers from marginalized communities were disproportionately impacted by both nonpayment and noncompliance suspensions.
With majority of opposition leaders in prison or abroad, Russians are preparing to vote in a presidential election that is unlikely to bring significant change. Bryn Rosenfeld is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University and studies post-communist politics and public opinion. She suggests that after the election, we can expect the announcement of an unpopular policy.
A Cornell ILR School research team found that having either the same gender or the same nationality as an opponent leads to greater perceptions of rivalry and subsequent better effort-based performance.
Florida’s Supreme Court ruling on Monday allowed the state to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, a ruling that deviates from the more moderate views held by most Americans says Cornel University professor Landon Schnabel.
The College of Veterinary Medicine and partners have launched a free online course, “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America,” to give learners support strategies and resources to navigate mental health challenges in rural communities.
The program seeks to nurture the careers of Cornell’s most promising faculty members in the social sciences by providing time and space for high-impact social scientific scholarship.
