Cornell Social Scientists In the News Archived Media Releases 2005 February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December December 2005 Tax Cuts for the Wealthy: Waste More, Want More Shape of Glass Influences How Much Alcohol is Poured -- and How Much You Will Drink New Book Focuses on Improving Health-care Access for People with Disabilities Not Always Having Enough to Eat Can Impair Reading and Math Development in Children, Cornell Study Confirms No Child Left Behind Act can Improve Schools, Cornell Professor Asserts in New Book New Book Focuses on Improving Health-care Acccess for People with Disabilities In 'Six Degrees of Reputation' Cornell Authors Track Plagiarism and Abuse of Online Reviewing Systems How Committed Your Relationship is Goes Hand in Hand with Happiness and Well-being, Study Discovers November 2005 Sometimes, a Tax Cut for the Wealthy Can Hurt the Wealthy Working Mothers, and Particularly Single Mothers With Jobs, Are Helping Reduce U.S. Child-Poverty Rate, Cornell Study Finds Blocking the Freshman 15 -- and Maybe Even the National Obesity Trend -- Could be as Simple as Daily Weighing, Finds Cornell Study Comfort Foods Help Women When They're Blue, But Increase Male Highs, Food Study Finds Big Portions Influence Overeating as Much as Taste, Even When the Food Tastes Lousy, Cornell Study Finds New Book Explores the Growing Science of False Memories Interracial Relationships Are On The Increase In U.S., But Decline With Age, Cornell Study finds October 2005 Of Hockey Players and Housing Prices Medicine is Like 'Lumbering Fool' That Doesn't Know It's Own Strength and Ignorance, Latest 'Golem' Book Asserts Cornell Studetns Help Corporations and Kenya's Poor Build Business Parnerhips Cornell's Jonson School Ranks 9th in Survey of World's Top MBA Schools in Social and Environmental Programs Launching China and Asia-Pacific Studies, a 'Revolutionary' New Undergraduate Major Why People Do What They Do Day-to-Day -- They're Not Just Driven By Their Economic Interest, Says "Interest' ' Developing "Win-win' Ways to Encourage People to Eat Better The Post-cold War Globe is "A World of Regions" Not Knowing What We Don't Know Leads to Bad Decision Making, Says Cornell Study Q & A With ISS Executive Director David Harris Beta Mannix Talks About Bringing Cornell's Social Scientists Together Gap Widens Between Working-age People With and Without Disabilities in the Workforce, Reports Shows With Daniel Lichter at the helm, Bronfenbrenner Life Coruse Center is ready to expand its mission September 2005 Students Discover Economics in Its Natural State Cornell Researchers Receive $2 Million Federal Grant for Computational Social Sciences project Using Web Archive Unwed Mothers' Prospects for Marrying Well, or Even Marrying at all, are Greatly Diminished The Ideal Dining Experience? Not Too Fast, Not Too Slow August 2005 New Book Explores Capitalism From a Social Science Perspective in Global Economy Federal Policies Keep People With Disabilities in a 'Poverty Trap,' Say Cornell Experts in Urging Major Reforms Susanne Bruyère is Named ILR Associate Dean of Outreach Cornell Scholar Has Role in Drafting Disputed Iraqi Constitution United States Urged to Keep Doors Open to International Students, in Cornell-Led Report on Visa Policy Navigating the World: Einaudi Center Launches International Website Cornell Overeating Study Suggests Eating Depends More on External Cues, than on Biological Signals Celebrating the 2004 Visit of Economics Nobel Laureate, Robert Fogel '48 Cornell Urban Scholars Program There's a Hidden Price for Being a Cheat, Cornell Economist Argues Mothers Face Disadvantages in Getting Hired, Cornell Study Says Men Overcompensate When Their Masculinity is Threatened July 2005 New Book Examines European-American Relations in Wake of Iraq War Future of Minority Studies Research Project Presents Four Powerhouse Symposia July 29-31 Innovative U.S. Union Strategies Help European Labor Unions Academic Leaders to Access Diversity in American Higher Education Cornell Economist Questions Whether Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Stimulate Employment Stem Cell Research Poll Marketing Professor's Branding Strategy Paper Wins Award June 2005 Mental Processing is Continuous, Not Like a Computer Institute for the Social Sciences Directorship Endowed Violence Protects Boys in Unsafe Neighborhoods from Depression David Harris Named Vice Provost for Social Sciences Workers' Right to Organize Overseas Immigrant Farmworker Integration Harry Katz Named ILR School Dean The Mysterious Disappearance of James Duesenberry May 2005 The Estate Tax: Efficient, Fair, and Misunderstood, Argues Cornell Economist Why Are Coyotes Getting More Aggressive? Cornell Five-year Study Intends to Find Out Cornell Conference, June 6-7, to Focus on the Effects of the Social and Physical Environment on Obesity April 2005 CU Prof and Five Students Honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science Cornell Economist, Launching Year of the Family, Identifies Trends That Affect Children Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Peters Kicks Off a Year of Cornell Events Focused on the Evolving Family New Book by Cornell Sociologist Explores Who Goes to College Intense Competition for Top Students Threatens Need-Based Financial Aid, Argues Cornell Economist Viewing yourself as others do can help nudge you toward personal goals, studies at Cornell find Can Separate Ever Be Equal In Public Single-Sex Schools? Cornell Law Professor Says Issue Still Has to be Resolved March 2005 Americans Save So Little, But What Can Be Done to Change That? Gay Adolescent? No, Normal Teenager, Says Cornell Expert on Teen Sexuality Rural Communities With Small Schools Are More Prosperous and Stable Than Those Without, Cornell Sociologist Finds After Sept. 11 attacks: As Traveler Plans Changed From Flying To Driving, Highway Deaths Rose In Subsequent Months Cornell Poll Indicates That More Than Half of New Yorkers Oppose Social Security Reform to Allow Private Investment Cornell Economist Co-authors Textbook Detailing the Economics of Aging February 2005 Cornell Students Give HIV/AIDS Communication Skills Workshops Cornell Sociologist Writes Dictionary About Max Weber's Ideas Yolanda King to Give MLK Commemorative Lecture on Feburary 15, 2005 The Theory that Self-Interest Is the Sole Motivator Is Self-Fulfilling The Qur'an Offers Women the Same Rights as Men, Cornell Aurthor Argues Human Rights Report Attacks Meatpacking Industry for Subjecting Workers to Danger, Exhaustion, and "Constant Fear and Risk"
Cornell Social Scientists In the News
Archived Media Releases 2005 February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December December 2005 Tax Cuts for the Wealthy: Waste More, Want More
In 'Six Degrees of Reputation' Cornell Authors Track Plagiarism and Abuse of Online Reviewing Systems
How Committed Your Relationship is Goes Hand in Hand with Happiness and Well-being, Study Discovers November 2005 Sometimes, a Tax Cut for the Wealthy Can Hurt the Wealthy Working Mothers, and Particularly Single Mothers With Jobs, Are Helping Reduce U.S. Child-Poverty Rate, Cornell Study Finds Blocking the Freshman 15 -- and Maybe Even the National Obesity Trend -- Could be as Simple as Daily Weighing, Finds Cornell Study
Comfort Foods Help Women When They're Blue, But Increase Male Highs, Food Study Finds Big Portions Influence Overeating as Much as Taste, Even When the Food Tastes Lousy, Cornell Study Finds New Book Explores the Growing Science of False Memories Interracial Relationships Are On The Increase In U.S., But Decline With Age, Cornell Study finds October 2005 Of Hockey Players and Housing Prices Medicine is Like 'Lumbering Fool' That Doesn't Know It's Own Strength and Ignorance, Latest 'Golem' Book Asserts Cornell Studetns Help Corporations and Kenya's Poor Build Business Parnerhips Cornell's Jonson School Ranks 9th in Survey of World's Top MBA Schools in Social and Environmental Programs Launching China and Asia-Pacific Studies, a 'Revolutionary' New Undergraduate Major Why People Do What They Do Day-to-Day -- They're Not Just Driven By Their Economic Interest, Says "Interest' '
Developing "Win-win' Ways to Encourage People to Eat Better
The Post-cold War Globe is "A World of Regions" Not Knowing What We Don't Know Leads to Bad Decision Making, Says Cornell Study Q & A With ISS Executive Director David Harris
Beta Mannix Talks About Bringing Cornell's Social Scientists Together Gap Widens Between Working-age People With and Without Disabilities in the Workforce, Reports Shows With Daniel Lichter at the helm, Bronfenbrenner Life Coruse Center is ready to expand its mission
September 2005
Students Discover Economics in Its Natural State
Cornell Researchers Receive $2 Million Federal Grant for Computational Social Sciences project Using Web Archive
Unwed Mothers' Prospects for Marrying Well, or Even Marrying at all, are Greatly Diminished
The Ideal Dining Experience? Not Too Fast, Not Too Slow
August 2005 New Book Explores Capitalism From a Social Science Perspective in Global Economy
Federal Policies Keep People With Disabilities in a 'Poverty Trap,' Say Cornell Experts in Urging Major Reforms
Susanne Bruyère is Named ILR Associate Dean of Outreach
Cornell Scholar Has Role in Drafting Disputed Iraqi Constitution
United States Urged to Keep Doors Open to International Students, in Cornell-Led Report on Visa Policy
Navigating the World: Einaudi Center Launches International Website Cornell Overeating Study Suggests Eating Depends More on External Cues, than on Biological Signals Celebrating the 2004 Visit of Economics Nobel Laureate, Robert Fogel '48 Cornell Urban Scholars Program There's a Hidden Price for Being a Cheat, Cornell Economist Argues Mothers Face Disadvantages in Getting Hired, Cornell Study Says Men Overcompensate When Their Masculinity is Threatened July 2005 New Book Examines European-American Relations in Wake of Iraq War Future of Minority Studies Research Project Presents Four Powerhouse Symposia July 29-31 Innovative U.S. Union Strategies Help European Labor Unions
Academic Leaders to Access Diversity in American Higher Education
Cornell Economist Questions Whether Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Stimulate Employment Stem Cell Research Poll
Marketing Professor's Branding Strategy Paper Wins Award
Institute for the Social Sciences Directorship Endowed
Violence Protects Boys in Unsafe Neighborhoods from Depression
David Harris Named Vice Provost for Social Sciences
Workers' Right to Organize Overseas
Immigrant Farmworker Integration
Harry Katz Named ILR School Dean
The Mysterious Disappearance of James Duesenberry
May 2005 The Estate Tax: Efficient, Fair, and Misunderstood, Argues Cornell Economist
Why Are Coyotes Getting More Aggressive? Cornell Five-year Study Intends to Find Out Cornell Conference, June 6-7, to Focus on the Effects of the Social and Physical Environment on Obesity April 2005 CU Prof and Five Students Honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science Cornell Economist, Launching Year of the Family, Identifies Trends That Affect Children Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Peters Kicks Off a Year of Cornell Events Focused on the Evolving Family New Book by Cornell Sociologist Explores Who Goes to College
Intense Competition for Top Students Threatens Need-Based Financial Aid, Argues Cornell Economist
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