Social scientists have known for several years that kids enrolled in run-down schools miss more classes and have lower test scores. But they haven’t been able to pin down why. A Cornell environmental psychologist has an answer.
A new Cornell study finds the darker a white man's skin is, the more likely he is to be arrested, compared to lighter-skinned white men. In contrast, black men, no matter how dark or light their skin, get arrested at the same rate.
How many adorable cat videos can you watch in one sitting? Kaitlin Woolley ’12, associate professor of marketing in the Johnson School, said they’re kind of like potato chips: You can’t consume just one.
A study compares the genetics between the tame and aggressive silver foxes in two areas of the brain, shedding light on genes altered by domestication.
Lourdes Casanova, the Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute, and faculty fellow Anne Miroux will co-host the EMI Conference this week in the Verizon Executive Education Center at Cornell Tech.
Cornell University labor experts are available to weigh in on return-to-office policies and mandates, the increase of union organizing and strikes, how current economic conditions are impacting workers and more.
The Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture initiative, part of the provost’s Radical Collaboration effort that is focused on the humanities and the arts, has made six hires for this school year.
As many as one in four children in Flint, Michigan – far above the national average – may have experienced elevated blood lead levels after the city’s 2014 water crisis, finds new research by Jerel Ezell, assistant professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center.
The Jewish Studies Program will host “Di Linke: The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War,” a six-webinar conference exploring the complex history of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order.
