In lab mice rehomed to fields, anxiety is reversed

When researchers "rewilded" lab mice to large, enclosed fields, even well-established anxieties in the mice disappeared. 

Navigators help high-risk students graduate, earn more

A program whose coordinators connect struggling students with academic and social services improves test scores, attendance, disciplinary issues, college enrollment and earnings.

K-12 enrollment falls in aging NYS, but charter schools gain

New York state’s aging population isn’t only evident in more graying residents, but in a declining number of school children – down more than a quarter-million over the past decade, according to a new analysis by Cornell demographers.

US communities are getting older – and more livable

Communities tracked by AARP's Livability Index made progress becoming more age friendly, but housing affordability and health care access remain challenges.

How ‘free money’ helped low-income workers stay employed

A small, unexpected tax benefit helped low-income Canadians continue working, contrary to what classic economic theory would predict.

Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of Levinson Program

Leaders from the College of Arts & Sciences recently traveled to China and Asia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brittany and Adam J. Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies.

Around Cornell

How do gender norms hold women back in the workforce?

Encouraging a growth mindset and being more subtle about the pursuit of power and dominance are among the ways women might rise through the ranks in the workplace, according to a new model that maps women’s pathways to influence.

Video-call glitches can have serious consequences

Glitches during face-to-face video calls – even when the glitch does not affect the transmission of information – can shatter the illusion of being across the table from the other person, evoking “uncanniness,” new Cornell-led research finds.

Jeanne Mueller, creator of social work program, dies at 100

Jeanne Mueller, a professor emerita in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) who advised the U.S. and foreign governments on social services, died Nov. 2 in Rochester, New York. She was 100.