Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 2025-26 Faculty Fellows

12 faculty members from seven colleges have been named 2025-26 Faculty Fellows with the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.

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Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn

At their spring banquet, students in the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program hear from a speaker who helps foster creative and critical thinking skills.

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Going against one’s better judgment amplifies self-blame

In a series of experiments, researchers in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that when people go along with opinions that go against their own, they feel more culpable for the decision if things go wrong than if they hadn’t received another opinion.

University Lecture examines ‘The Narrative Brain’

Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.

From slime molds to corporations, traveling networks chart a new path

A tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling “traveling networks” – connected systems that move by rearranging their structure. Understanding these networks may help explain the behavior of certain biological systems and human organizations.

Struggling men hurt noncollege women’s marriage prospects

Concern that college-educated women will struggle to find “marriageable” partners is misplaced, finds new research co-authored by a Cornell economist.

Documenting Uyghur history for the sake of the future

Zilala Mamat '27 is documenting the lives and stories of Uyghur people living in exile.

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Illegal market would blunt benefit of menthol cigarette ban

Demand for illegal menthol cigarettes would be substantial if the U.S. banned legal sales, limiting public health gains, Cornell research finds.

Writer Melissa Harris-Perry to speak on community care and democracy

The Feb. 27 public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.

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