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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
