In a new book, bioarcheologist Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention, one that overlooked significant diversity in lived experience.
“What is happening to the kidneys of sugarcane workers is not a result of climate change. It is climate change": Anthropologist Alex Nading documents how environmental justice activists are addressing the epidemic.
Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology at Cornell University and an expert on international populism, says the writing was on the wall for the no confidence vote.
This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the “official” end of World War II, but a new book co-edited by Ruth Lawlor, assistant professor of history, extends the war’s timeline back to 1931 and into the mid-1950s.
The Scheinman Institute, which promotes a problem-solving approach to dispute resolution, has formed the Cornell ILR National Conflict Resolution Service in collaboration with the American Arbitration Association.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center provide fresh insights about how cancers evolve when they metastasize – insights that could aid in developing strategies to improve the effectiveness of treatment.
Cornell chemistry and chemical biology researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells — using the cells’ own components as built-in sensors.
A simulator - with real, hovering spacecraft - would have allowed researchers, companies and government agencies to test crucial space technologies, but a stop-work order from the federal government has halted construction.
