Three students from Cornell Law School’s Asylum and Convention Against Torture Clinic have been able to give an asylum seeker from Cameroon a rare second chance to prove he should be eligible to stay in the United States.
Thanks to Cornell researchers and their colleagues, a dataset of thousands of experiments is publicly available, providing insight into fields like political science, communication, psychology, marketing, organizational behavior, statistics, computer science and education.
The CAT Lab, led by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in CALS, recently received nearly $1.3 million in grants to further its citizen science studies on the effects of digital technology on society.
Mitigating abuses of encrypted social media communication, on outlets such as WhatsApp and Signal, while ensuring user privacy is the focus of a five-year, $3 million NSF grant to a multidisciplinary Cornell research team.
Stephen Ceci, the Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, recently was elected president of the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. His term began in August.
Professor emeritus Frank W. Young died on April 26 at his home in Ithaca. As a professor of development sociology, Young was best known for his work in social differentiation and social structure, and later in population health.
The new Center for Integrative Developmental Science, which launched this fall in the College of Human Ecology, will strengthen Cornell as a leader in human development research.
The Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – returns this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.
The Cornell University Library archive of 165 police union and association websites will support research on a range of issues including police reform and accountability.
ILR School dean Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, hosted “The Future of Work: Labor in America,” the first installment of a new ILR eCornell Keynotes series.