B.A.B.Y. Lab at the Ithaca Festival!

Come find us at Ithaca Festival! The Cornell B.A.B.Y. Lab will be hosting an activity booth on Cayuga Street (between Buffalo and Court St.) on Saturday and Sunday starting at noon. You can watch how your little ones play with toys that are structured, like balls or blocks, or unstructured, like play-dough. Come see the different […]

B.A.B.Y. Lab on NPR

Lab director Dr. Michael Goldstein be interviewed on the NPR affiliate WSKG on Wednesday (4/15) afternoon as a guest on Community Conversation: A Public Discussion On Child Care. There will be a live audience as part of the public forum on child care and early education, then the interview will be broadcast at 7:00pm tonight on WSKG […]

2015 NSF fellowship winners!

Congratulations to graduate students Melissa Elston and Katerina Faust!  Melissa won the prestigious National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship, and Katerina received an honorable mention!

Why we study birds and babies

Perri Klass, a pediatrician, science writer, and NYU professor of pediatrics and journalism, wrote a wonderful article for the Harvard Medicine magazine on why we study both baby babbling and birdsong.  Perri took the time to visit our lab and get an in-depth understanding of what we do and why we do it.  Thanks, Perri!