Steve Osofsky, Professor of Wildlife Health & Health Policy, explores the complex relationships between health and human interaction with the environment.

Planetary Health

Anindita Banerjee, Associate professor of comparative literature, explores how science fiction can help make sense of climate change.

Imagining the Future

Cliff Kraft, professor of natural resources, looks at the human actions behind the changes in our environment.

Cultivating Environments

Tasha Lewis, assistant professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, considers what happens to used clothing and asks whether we can add value to what we usually treat as waste.

Future Fashion

Stephan Schmidt, associate professor of city and regional planning, asks whether cities can have a positive impact on climate change.

Cities Matter

Neema Kudva, associate professor of city and regional planning, examines how to build resilient communities in the face of environmental and economic upheaval.

Building Resilience

Robert Sternberg, professor of human development, describes his triangular theory of love.

A Triangular Theory

Durba Ghosh, professor of history and director of Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, examines what love meant for colonial India’s mixed-race families.

Colonial Love

Cornell Professor Kathryn LaTour explores why consumers feel love for certain products or brands. LaTour is the Banfi Vintners Professor of Wine Education and Management in the School of Hotel Administration, SC Johnson College of Business.

Product Love

Marianne Krasny, professor in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, examines what motivates people to care for Earth’s creatures and its places.

Topophilia

Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology at Cornell University, explores the behavioral, psychological, and neural components of love -- and its loss.

Love Science

Masha Raskolnikov, Cornell associate professor of English, explains how the invention of courtly love helped prevent warfare in medieval Europe.

Courtly Love

Lucinda Ramberg, associate professor of anthropology and feminist, gender and sexuality studies, explores marriage between girls and a goddess in South India.

Love and the Goddess

Andy Bass, professor of neurobiology and behavior, explores the biological basis of attraction.

Science of Love

Kevin Kniffin,professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management within the SC Johnson College of Business, explores what influences whom we find attractive.

Love Bonds

William Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, explains the influence of water on European Renaissance culture.

Waterways of Venice

Taryn Bauerle, associate professor in the School of Integrative and Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical role trees play in the earth’s water cycle.

The Need for Trees

Eric Tagliacozzo, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores the critical role the oceans have played in Southeast Asia.

Water Connections

Athena Kirk, assistant professor of classics in the College of Arts & Sciences, examines Odysseus’ complex relationship with water.

A Water-Filled Journey

Jonathan Lunine, astronomy professor and director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, examines the origin of our planet’s water.

Interstellar Water

Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University, examines how Indigenous stories are misrepresented by the media.

Unequal Representation

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia examines how climate change causes economic and political upheaval.

Climate Refugees

Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, explores how “sociological” storytelling can change health outcomes.

Health Inequities

Kelly Musick, director of the Cornell Population Center and professor and chair of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them.

Unequal Parenting

Peter Lepage, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, examines how active learning helps students succeed.

Closing Achievement Gaps

Jamie Lyn Perry, assistant professor of management and organization in the SC Johnson College of Business, explores power and status in the workplace.

Workplace Rankings

Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana studies and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, explores global racial hierarchies and their remedies.

Lived Experience

Anna Haskins, assistant professor of sociology in Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences, explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.

Climate of Fear

Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S.

Segregated Education

Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.

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