Envisioning an increasingly diverse America causes anxiety for a lot of white people, except, that is, whites with a defined “purpose in life,” a Cornell-Carleton University psychology study has found.
The President's Council of Cornell Women's Affinito-Stewart Grants Program has awarded research grants to seven assistant professors to help them complete research important in their tenure process.
A team led by Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computing and information science, has won the $100,000 first prize in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge with a mobile app designed to assist patients with bipolar disorder.
Professors Holly Prigerson and Valerie Reyna have combined forces to study end-of-life communication between patients and their physicians and clinicians, with the goal of improved prognostic understanding and decision-making and, ultimately, better end-of-life decisions.
A Weill Cornell Medical College public health study finds about 1 million people in the United States resumed smoking after 9/11, which could cost billions in health care expenses.
A Dec. 16 conference, co-organized by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, examined the psychological and neurological consequences of war. (Dec. 18, 2009)
At 7 percent of the population, newly identified minority on the sexual-orientation continuum, the mostly heterosexuals, have more mental-health problems than most.
Most of the people bitten by dengue fever-transmitting mosquitoes in four Thai villages weren’t residents, but visitors, a finding that provides new clues about the spread of the dengue virus.