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Psychology

Prolonged immaturity an evolutionary plus for human babies

2/8/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Human infants use that time to begin to acquire complex social skills, including language, empathy, morality and theory of mind.

Alumni

Alumni boost students' careers

12/23/2016 Alumni Affairs & Development

Many alumni working for large and small companies mentor, encourage and recruit Cornell students.

Government

Latina and Black women lost jobs in record numbers. Policies designed for all women don’t necessarily help.

2/9/2021 Washington Post

Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on January employment included bad news about Black and Latina women in the workforce, writes Jamila Michener, associate professor of government in a Washington Post op-ed.

Philosophy

Manne to give Society for the Humanities talk on male entitlement

2/9/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, will give a talk titled “He Said, She Listened: Mansplaining, Gaslighting, and Epistemic Entitlement.”

Government

In limiting political content, Facebook risks advancing censorship narrative

2/10/2021 A&S Communications

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will begin implementing changes to its algorithm to reduce political content on its users’ news feeds. Doing so, Facebook risks sowing more discord, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.

History

NEH grants Cornell $750K to develop ‘Freedom’ database

2/10/2021 Cornell Chronicle

… Ed Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $750,000 digital infrastructure grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the development of the Freedom on …

Person standing next to an outdoor food cupboard — Provided Brianna Johnson ’21, a student researcher on a Cornell team working to increase food security for local residents.

Engaged Research

New research grants support Ithaca-area communities

2/10/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell faculty and students are teaming up with community partners in Tompkins County to address opioid use, increase food security, build a greener construction industry and share stories of Ithaca’s Black history pioneers. The four teams received Engaged Research Grants, totaling more than $192,000, from the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI).

Astronomy

Perseverance’s zoom cameras to take historic focus on Mars

2/11/2021 A&S Communications

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on a journey to Mars since its launch in July 2020 and is set to land on the red planet on Feb. 18. Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy, is a co-investigator for Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z — a set of stereo cameras that will be the “eyes of the rover.”

Molecular Biology and Genetics

CRISPR improves method for studying gene functions