BusinessWeek magazine has billed Cornell's undergraduate business program the fourth-best in the nation, according to its most recent rankings survey. (March 3, 2008)
Rural preschoolers in poor communities in New York state have significantly less access to quality early education programs than their urban and suburban counterparts, finds a new Cornell study. (March 3, 2008)
The global food system is in disarray: Prices of fuel and food are skyrocketing; weather is wreaking havoc; and subsidies are misdirected. There is an urgent need for new policy priorities, says Per Pinstrup-Andersen in a Cornell Perspectives piece. (March 3, 2008)
Professor of food science Joe Regenstein discussed the koshering of Nabisco's famous Oreo cookie and other food adventures, Feb. 20, in a talk given as part of Cornell's Jewish Faculty Lecture Series. (Feb. 26, 2008)
Five Cornell science students saw this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting from a new perspective: through the eyes of the press. (Feb. 25, 2008)
Open access to peer-reviewed journals was a hot topic for Cornell researchers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, Feb. 14-18. (Feb. 21, 2008)
A Cornell-led study that compared more than 10,000 sequenced genes from 15 African-Americans and 20 European-Americans suggests that European populations have more harmful variations. (Feb. 20, 2008)
Retired professor of agronomy Earl Lewis Stone Jr. died July 23 at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 92. Stone served for 31 years on the faculty, teaching and conducting research on forest soils. (Feb. 19, 2008)
