Twenty-eight new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences this year, bringing innovative ideas in a wide diversity of topics, from climate politics to experimental fiction, from artificial intelligence to health economics, enhancing the College’s interdisciplinary strengths and curiosity-driven discoveries.
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Navy veteran Tyler Parker said the Warrior-Scholar Project’s two-week academic boot camp at Cornell, which included coursework in humanities and in science, technology, engineering and math, had helped advance his goals to pursue neuroscience research.
A group of military service members and veterans spent two weeks at Cornell as part of the Warrior-Scholar Project, which helps participants build skills and navigate transitions to higher education.
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Cornell researchers designed this remote-controlled car to study the importance in early development of contingency – caregivers’ responses close in time to a baby’s behavior. Babies formed strong expectations that the car would be responsive, showing they are highly flexible in what they will learn from contingently, even including machines that lack human features.
The timing of others’ reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning, Cornell developmental psychologists found – with help from a remote-controlled car.
