The Social Sciences Initiative
Why does poverty persist in a world with abundant resources? Are gender inequities a thing of the past? What factors are contributing to the rise in obesity? How does social behavior impact global climate change?
Social scientists at Cornell are investigating questions like these, but no single discipline owns the answers. Cornell’s extraordinary academic scope enables researchers to interface across a wide array of fields to explore unconventional partnerships and exchange new ideas, data, and tools. At these frontiers, knowledge is being mined that can better explain the nuances of human interaction and more accurately predict the outcomes.
The Social Sciences Initiative—a key component of the university-wide Far Above…The Campaign for Cornell—is building connections among social scientists and programs that are among the best in the world. This effort will strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration through the central resource of the Institute for the Social Sciences, enabling promising new ideas to flourish by breaking down disciplinary barriers and empowering Cornell researchers to take the social sciences where it has never gone before.
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