Ann LaFave named CALS assistant dean of academic programs and student success cornell.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cornell.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 29, 2021
How might the pandemic change social interaction between older adults, shift dynamics for immigrant workers and reshape local housing markets? How do gender disparities in pay vary across industrialized societies? And how quickly should you respond to that late email from a co-worker?
Those are some of the research questions Cornell faculty will pursue with the help of more than $271,000 in grants awarded this spring by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The grants funded 19 proposals for studies and conferences involving more than 30 faculty members and researchers across campus.
Awarded each spring and fall, CCSS grants seek to promote interdisciplinary work, advance projects that are strong candidates for external funding and jump-start work by early-career faculty. The grants provide up to $12,000 for research projects, $5,000 for conferences hosted by Cornell and – new this spring – $30,000 for collaborations between members of the university’
Jenny Goldstein named faculty fellow at Cornell Center for Social Sciences cornell.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cornell.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 8, 2021
To support faculty preparation for spring semester, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) hosted two series of workshops entitled
What Works in the weeks before the start of the term. The workshops brought together faculty from across campus to discuss successful teaching strategies from fall courses, as well as ways to adapt them to the challenges of the spring 2021 teaching context.
CTI developed
What Works for In-Person Teaching with Remote Students and
What Works for Online Teaching out of the knowledge that instructors worked extremely hard to teach in new and difficult circumstances last fall. Each series focused on 4 areas: Group and Collaborative Assignments, Active Learning, Assessment, and Building Community.