This year's MPS in Global Development program will provide in-depth training to more than two dozen students who are mid-career professionals, scholars and aspiring development professionals from more than ten countries across the globe.
Lessons from suicide survivors – people who, despite the urge to die, find ways to cope and reasons to live – are seldom heard, but Cornell researchers and their colleagues have written one of the first studies to change that.
Regional knowledge economies such as Silicon Valley and New York City are one of several areas of research for the Center for the Study of Economy and Society's Economic Sociology Lab, supported by graduate researchers and undergraduate assistants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a global cautionary tale, the UN’s IPCC has a new climate change report written by Cornell’s Rachel Bezner Kerr and 270 others, to pull our planet from dire environmental ruin.