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Media Releases 2013

April


Institute for the Social Sciences Provides Research Support to Faculty in Seven Colleges

Media Releases 2012
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May

NYC tech campus finds temporary home at Google

Former Twitter CTO Greg Pass joins NYC tech campus

Cornell is a top 10 school for financial engineering

Business, politics, economics play key roles in sustainability

Natalie Grillon, MBA '12, named Acumen Global fellow

ISS Immigration affiliate co-teaches class reaching students across borders, virtually

ISS Poverty team leader and affiliated researchers develop food aid decision-making tool

Design thinking helps shape new businesses

Grad students help Ugandan girls recover from war

Edible 'stop signs' in food may halt overeating

Alumna and princess of Thailand champions women's rights

MBA students mentor incarcerated youth

Sexual orientation has 'in between' groups, study shows

ISS Proverty team leader warns of global food shortages and higher prices

ISS Decision-making project results in 85 publications

'You're gonna need a bigger quote!': What makes movie lines memorable

Jerome Ziegler, former dean and education expert, dies at 88

Boys who mature rapidly have more depression

ISS small grant PI launches website on moving beyond diversity and re-situating pluralism

Middle class better off than previously thought

April


Effects of loneliness mimic aging process

ISS Grants fund research from body odor to democracy

Speakers echo language style of superiors, especially if they need something

Reliance on free market can lead to global instability

New CARE-Cornell partnership to fight global concerns

Western Muslims 'lack confidence, understanding'

Combat makes for gun-shy investors, study says

Law Profesor Barceló named to French Legion of Honor

Cornell DREAM Team wins Perkins Prize

Students contribute to Somali constitution

Alternatives Library helps promote social justice

Immersion program aids humanities Ph.D. students

Obesity accounts for 21 percent of medical care costs


To convince people, come at them from different angles, find Networks team member Jon Kleinberg

March 2012

David Harris to join Tufts as provost, senior vice president

White House recognizes Dudley as "Champion for Change" for farmworker program

Population Center is a hub for social sciences

Dyson School ranked No. 3 by Businessweek

Meridian 180 think tank is officially launched

New approach can change teen risk-taking, finds JSDB Team Member Valerie Reyna

Honeybees and humans share drive to explore

Students get a glimpse the UN's inner workings

Study: The more types of foods served, the more you'll eat

Sloan students get inside look at health policy on D.C. trip


Skorton wins national award for advocacy with government officials

February 2012


Five undergrads win Nielsen Case Competition

Ulric Neisser, a founder of cognitive psychology, dies at 83


Weill Cornell center is model of collaboration


Unions offer hope of helping Chinese workers


Top World Bank economist focuses on China

Prof. Robert Harris advises black history project

Queens imam spreads the gospel of good eating

CU-ADVANCE celebrates major accomplishments


Sen. Gillibrand to speak on campus March 2

ISS Small Grant PI finds New approach could more effectively diagnose personality disorders

Trevor Pinch on the sounds of commerce

Obama changed racial identity of black students


Big Red Buddies: human development is child's play

Neuroscience teaches about the 'good life'


Study: Women leave math-heavy fields when they have kids


Symposium celebrates 40 years of feminist studies


Caregiver personality traits can affect health


ISS frees up top social scientists to do research


Education under fire: One alumna's mission

Doctoral student to raise money for abandoned kids


Report finds collaborations improve health care

Itai Dinour leads City Year New York

January 2012

Parent educators, researchers share wisdom at conference

Study: Stressed kids more likely to become obese

Public lecture series to explore the rise of China


Cornell leads Ivy League in Peace Corps recruits


ISS Small Grant PI finds college cuts odds for marriage among disadvantaged


Cohabiting couples are happier than wedded ones

Suzanne Mettler named Century Foundation fellow

Guilt, gender play roles in human-animal relations

Trevor Pinch edits 'The Handbook of Sound Studies'

ILR professor helps world's poorest workers

Advice from life's graying edge on finishing with no regrets


ILR School Faculty and alumni receive labor honors

Land-grant schools are democracy's colleges

Soumitra Dutta named new Johnson dean

High-speed rail belongs in Northeast, urges Cornell Prof. Geddes to Washington lawmakers

Powerful people overestimate their height


How you plate food for kids matters


Slaves or not, Babylonians were like us, says book


Conference examines hiring those with criminal records


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