Three Cornell researchers will receive Hartwell awards for their cutting-edge research to benefit children: Charles Glatt and Anjali Rajadhyaksha of Weill Cornell Medical College and John March in Ithaca. (April 3, 2008)
More than 300 students in Psychology 101 are taking part in the largest-ever objective study of the sleep patterns of individual college students. (Nov. 18, 2009)
'Cognitive advantages follow from becoming bilingual,' says Barbara Lust, a developmental psychology and linguistics expert. 'These cognitive advantages can contribute to a child's future academic success.'
Attachment is the theme of assistant professor Vivian Zayas' '94 life, as she's personally attached to Ultimate (Frisbee) and professionally to the study of attachment. (Oct. 12, 2010)
STS researchers 'want to understand how science and technology as forms of knowledge are produced; how their credibility is tested; how they change over time,' explains department chair Stephen Hilgartner. (Oct. 8, 2008)
The reason that almost 25 percent of indigenous societies practice some form of male genital cutting may be to reduce pregnancies from extramarital sex and reduce conflict among men, says researcher. (March 6, 2008)
World Food Prize laureate and Cornell professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen's course takes a social entrepreneurial approach to world food policy, and he is training educators worldwide on how to the use materials to run participatory courses. (Feb. 6, 2008)
The Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medical College harnesses resources of many institutions in New York to promote research from lab bench to bedside and to the community.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit's Nov. 11 talk, "Quo vadis Europe: the Franco-German Dialogue in the European Community," is the advance keynote presentation for "Franco-German Relations and the New Europe," Nov. 19. (November 9, 2005)