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Social scientists take on data-driven discrimination

Big data, machine learning and digital surveillance have the potential to create racial and social inequalities – and make existing discrimination even worse, according to a team of Cornell scientists addressing the problem.

Computing & Information Sciences
Social & Behavioral Sciences
News & Events

Book explores Alexander Kluge's literary experiments in futurity

Leslie Adelson has written “Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge's 21st-century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form.”

Arts & Humanities
News & Events

Active learning connects past, present in new classics course

The new history course, Statues and Public Life, is part of the classics department’s participation in Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, administered through the Office of the Provost.

Arts & Humanities

CS classes can break down cultural barriers, study shows

Computational education can break down and expose cultural barriers in unexpected ways, a new study from Cornell researchers has found.

Computing & Information Sciences
Global Reach
Social & Behavioral Sciences

Grocery stores prepare for new wave of COVID-19 panic-buying

September 29, 2020

Grocery stores and food retailers are stockpiling products to prepare for another widespread outbreak of COVID-19 cases amidst the already busy holiday season rush. Edward McLaughlin, professor of food industry management and an expert in the efficiency of food distribution systems says food companies, anticipating another potential wave of COVID-19, are putting previous demand buying models aside and are now sending staple goods to grocery stores, even without an order.

Food & Agriculture
Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Economics and Business

NYC workshop tackles how to build sustainable cities

On May 23, more than 60 people gathered at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's studio space in New York City to consider how built environments can help meet climate change challenges.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Architecture & Design
Arts & Humanities
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Public Engagement
New York City

‘I’m First!’ campaign helps first-generation students build connections

More than 50 first-generation faculty, staff and students gathered Oct.12 for a networking reception for the new “I’m First!” campaign hosted by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives.

Inclusion and Belonging
News & Events
Public Engagement

Startup wields natural bacterium to improve health of livestock

Bactana Animal Health, a new company providing a natural, sustainable alternative to dosing livestock prophylactically with antibiotics and hormones, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center in May.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Food & Agriculture
Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

New lecture series addresses connections between language, inequality

An Oct. 20 lecture will kick off a new series on language and inequality.

Arts & Humanities
Social & Behavioral Sciences
News & Events

Einaudi-funded Ph.D. students think globally, act remotely

This year, a new cohort of 16 Ph.D. students in the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program must adapt to the obstacles brought on by the global pandemic.

Global Reach
Public Engagement