Cornell professor
Family and Colleagues Remember Emeritus Professor Frank Young as a Kind and Curious Researcher
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The Cornell community honors emeritus professor Frank Young, a lifelong sociology researcher and friend to many.
2020 Election
After Drawn-Out Election, Professors Reflect on Fraught, Historic Race
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Following the end of the election, professors reacted on the implications of this year’s race and the work that still must follow.
Science
Professors Conflicted About Reopening Model and the Risks and Benefits of Reopening
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While Cornell says it can balance both students’ desires of returning to campus and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 during an in-person semester, some students and faculty members remain skeptical.
Campus Closure
Cornell Professors’ Model Could Help Universities Plan for the Fall 2020 Semester
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One question that schools must answer while considering their course of action is what the extent of the risk is facing campus. Two Cornell professors, Ben Cornwell and Kim Weeden, sociology, are aiming to quantify how connected individuals on campus are to provide insight on how a virus could spread should classes resume normally in the fall.
Science
Sociology and Population Change: How Demographics Affect Society
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With 360,000 new babies born each day, untangling the globe’s vast web of people can seem, at first glance, a near-impossible task. But for Prof. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, chair of development sociology and associate director of the Cornell Population Center, sorting through those ever-complicated population dynamics is just another day’s work.
education
Sociology Prof. Anna Haskins Awarded $350,000 to Research Educational Inequality
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Does where you are from affect how you learn? Does the social environment changes parents’ role in their children’s education? Cornell Prof. Anna Haskins, sociology, hopes to answer this question with her research.
development
Cornell Partners With Harvard to Improve Rural Schools
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Despite the fact that more than 46 million Americans live in nonmetropolitan areas, rural students and schools receive little attention in either policy or academia, Sipple said.
News
Cornell University Professor Creates Online Poverty and Risk Calculator
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“The idea of the poverty calculator is we’re trying to make poverty risk more real, so that people can see where they stand and where people like them stand.”
centennial
Development Sociology Department Celebrates Centennial
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In celebration of its 100 year anniversary, the Department of Development Sociology will welcome alumni back to the Hill this weekend for a two-day event. Housed within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, development sociology focuses on research and applied work in current political, economic, cultural and social change. The department has a graduate program, consisting of about 40 students, and an undergraduate major in which 128 students are enrolled. The celebration, set to take place Friday and Saturday, will revolve around the theme of “Looking Back to Move Forward.” Several alumni will speak on panels that concern both the past and future of development sociology. Prof. Julie Zimmerman ’97, rural sociology, University of Kentucky, who was tasked with writing a monograph to commemorate the occasion, will deliver the opening speech Friday, highlighting the department’s history.