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.

Climate of Fear

Dec 5th, 2019 4m 20s

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

Lived Experience

Nov 18th, 2019 5m 36s

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

Workplace Rankings

Nov 13th, 2019 5m 14s

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

Closing Achievement Gaps

Nov 6th, 2019 4m 50s

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.

Unequal Parenting

Oct 31st, 2019 4m 15s

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.

Health Inequities

Oct 24th, 2019 4m 49s

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

Climate Refugees

Oct 17th, 2019 4m 29s

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

Unequal Representation

Oct 10th, 2019 5m

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

Unequal Happiness

Oct 3rd, 2019 4m 31s

Thomas Gilovich, Cornell University's Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Chair of Psychology, examines the impact of inequality on psychological well-being.

Climate Change Inequality

Sep 26th, 2019 4m 45s

Linda Shi, assistant professor of city and regional planning, discusses how efforts to adapt to climate change can also worsen inequality.

Egypt's Nile

May 14th, 2019 4m 8s

Ziad Fahmy, associate professor and chair of Near Eastern studies at Cornell University, looks at what the Nile River means to Egypt.

Clean Water

May 7th, 2019 5m 58s

Prabhu Pingali, director, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, and professor of applied economics and policy and nutritional science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explains the impact of clean, piped-in water

Interstellar Water

Apr 30th, 2019 4m 30s

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

A Water-Filled Journey

Apr 23rd, 2019 4m 31s

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

Water Rights

Apr 16th, 2019 5m 13s

Charles Geisler, professor of development sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical question of who owns our planet’s water.

Water Connections

Apr 9th, 2019 3m 53s

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

The Need for Trees

Apr 2nd, 2019 5m 3s

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.

Waterways of Venice

Mar 26th, 2019 4m 27s

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

The Cost of Water

Mar 19th, 2019 4m 31s

Catherine Kling, Tisch University Professor of Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics, examines the social costs of water pollution, and how we should make choices about costly water treatment.

Love Bonds

Dec 11th, 2018 3m 58s

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.

Science of Love

Dec 4th, 2018 4m 9s

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

Love and the Goddess

Nov 27th, 2018 4m 26s

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