A new study finds that softening the lighting and music in fast food restaurants resulted in diners consuming 18 percent fewer calories. (Aug. 29, 2012)
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $300,000 to help Cornell transform how it prepares new teachers to educate the next generation of scientists - and citizens. (Aug. 28, 2012)
Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, frequently returns to her childhood home, the Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona, to conduct cancer research and offer education. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Using a new approach to decode the human genome, scientists assert that knowing where genes start to encode amino acid chains can predict what proteins they produce. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Cornell was part of a study that has found that background noise, mainly from ships, has cut the ability of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to communicate by about two-thirds. (Aug. 16, 2012)
Six alumni panelists at the Cornell Club in New York City described how their companies leveraged social media to pursue their entrepreneurial endeavors Aug. 14. (Aug. 16, 2012)
A block of about 500 grapevines at Cornell Orchards - a little more than half an acre - is now certified organic by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York. (Aug. 14, 2012)
Cornell's SRI-Rice Center is helping West African countries scale-up their environmentally friendly, highly productive rice cropping methods. (Aug. 13, 2012)
