The Cops, Kids and Toys program distributed toys to more than 1,000 children and about 425 families Dec. 18 and 19 in the Ithaca and Tompkins County area.
Joseph Price, a graduate student in economics at Cornell, has found that a first-born child receives 20-30 more minutes of quality time each day with a parent than a second-born child of the same age from a similar family.
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station will move its grape research laboratory from Fredonia to Portland, N.Y., onto recently purchased land, with more than $5 million of state funding.
Lynne Snyder Abel, former associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Nov. 29 due to complications of multiple myeloma. She was 66.
About 2,000 people attended a keynote speech in New York honoring the late Urie Bronfenbrenner given by his daughter Kate, Cornell's director of Labor Education Research in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Susan Holt has been named to the newly created position of chief development officer at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is responsible for creating a new Office of Institutional Advancement.
With above-average warmth throughout the Northeast, several cities in the region face top-10 warm Decembers, according to Cornell's Northeast Regional Center.
People estimate that they make about 15 food- and beverage-related decisions each day. But the truth is, they make more than 15 times that -- more than 200 such decisions, finds Cornell researchers Brian Wansink and Jeffery Sobal.
The top stories in 2006 were the inauguration of David J. Skorton as Cornell's 12th president and the launch of the university's $4 billion campaign. Enjoy this look back at a few of Cornell's accomplishments, events, research and outreach efforts, and have a healthy, happy new year.
