Roper Roundtable to explore landmark dataset on country's top concerns

Political scientist Laron Williams will explore polling data behind the most important problem facing the country at the Roper Roundtable on May 7.

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Brain’s ‘blue spot’ key to healthy aging, early Alzheimer’s detection

Specialized MRI scans revealed dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the locus coeruleus, a finding that helps characterize healthy aging patterns.

Alumna earned congressional arguing chops on campus

Rep. Beth Van Duyne '95, who represents Texas’ 24th Congressional District, recently won re-election to her third term.

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New gift funds innovation at Bronfenbrenner Center

The $2 million gift from Rebecca “Becky” Quinn Morgan ’60 and her husband, James C. Morgan ’60, MBA ’63, will endow a fund that supports early-stage research projects that meaningfully engage communities.

MLB’s international Latino players, coaches face challenges despite diversity efforts

Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that could obscure inequities in sports and other organizations.

Finding friendship at first whiff

Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have potential to be friends – guided as much by smell as any other sense, according to new Cornell psychology research.

DIY religion: More Americans finding faith outside church

Cornell-led research finds that large numbers of Americans are leaving organized religion – not in favor of secular rationality, but to pursue spirituality in ways that better align with their individual values.

Texans’ embrace of turbines may herald winds of change

Texans on average hold positive views about wind energy developments, welcoming turbines’ local benefits despite state and national leaders' efforts to disincentivize such projects.

Celebrated bonobo Kanzi honored in workshop

Kanzi's legacy and the relation between great apes and language will be explored in a Humanities Lab Workshop on April 19.

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