Complex incentives shape worker effort, for better or worse

Complexity is an important aspect to consider when designing workplace incentive schemes as it can affect worker effort and performance, according to new research.

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" is study of work by poets who push the genre in unexpected directions. 

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Early exposure curbed allergies in Icelandic horses

Horses exposed early in life to an allergen were less likely to react when exposed again later in life, according to a new study of Icelandic horses at Cornell.  

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.

Workshop, talk focused on applying lessons learned from COVID

Scholars converged at Cornell to talk about lessons policymakers and elected officials could glean from their research into the COVID pandemic to help deal with the next public health emergency.

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Doctoral alumna selected for CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Anthropology alumna Dusti Bridges, Ph.D. ’25, was selected for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards in the humanities and fine arts.

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Embrace community, lived experiences for better mentoring

Sweeney Windchief, professor of adult and higher education at Montana State University, discussed mentoring relationships during a 2025 MAC Public Keynote.

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A dose of psilocybin, a dash of rabies point to treatment for depression

An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how – and where – the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain.

Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.