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COMM Updates - 2/13/2023
Awards We are pleased to announce that Professor Katherine McComas received the Excellence in Risk Communication Research and Practice Award from the Society for Risk Analysis Risk Communication Specialty Group. The award recognizes “outstanding...
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COMM Updates - 2/6/2023
Awards We are pleased to announce that Professor Katherine McComas received the Excellence in Risk Communication Research and Practice Award from the Society for Risk Analysis Risk Communication Specialty Group. The award recognizes “outstanding...

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Seed grants foster collaboration across Cornell campuses

The funding will support preliminary disease-related research, in the latest in a series of efforts to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary research.

  • Department of Communication
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Nutritional Sciences
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships
Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science

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Video game experience or gender may improve VR learning, study finds

“We didn’t know exactly what we were going to see,” said Jack Madden, M.S. ’17, doctoral student in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and first author of “Ready Student One: Exploring the Predictors of Student Learning in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication

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Center for Social Sciences names 2020-21 faculty fellows

The center’s Faculty Fellows Program has named 11 faculty members from six colleges and schools as its 2020-21 cohort. The yearlong fellowships, including a semester in residence at the center, are designed to give promising early-career faculty...

  • Development Sociology
  • Communication

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Grants seed social science research, conferences

In all, the center’s Fall 2019 Small Grant Awards supported 14 proposals, including nine research projects and five academic conferences, with a total of $90,000. The awards provide seed funding to help early career social science faculty...

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication