School gardens grow kids' physical activity levels

Children in schools with vegetable gardens got 10 minutes more of exercise than before their schools had gardens, reports a study on the benefits of school gardens.

Study: Ads can influence ‘smart’ false memories

A new study reports that advertising can result in “smart” false memories. That is, consumers who have a propensity to think more about decisions produce more false memories than those who process information at a more superficial level.

Jeff Cowie's history 'Stayin' Alive' inspires a play

An ILR School professor's labor history book, “Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,” has inspired a play, running through March 20 in St. Louis.

Study clears the air on cigarette tax policy

Hiking cigarette taxes - to persuade some smokers to quit, and raise revenue from those who won’t - is a win-win policy.

Tax-free business areas approved for START-UP NY

New York state recently accepted Cornell’s application for a campus plan outlining its tax-free zones in the START-UP NY program.

Ethics contest revolves around Twitter and privacy

A student team that devised a plan to sell certain public tweets to Google and Microsoft has won first prize in the university’s second annual Stephen S. J. Hall Ethics Case Competition held March 7 at the School of Hotel Administration.

Johnson launches $50M Innovation Challenge

Five Johnson School alumni have committed to give the school $27 million and a new Innovation Challenge seeks to raise another $23 million by June 20, 2015.

Economists: How to slow the growth in disability claims

Broken by years of unsustainable growth and Congressional tinkering - and nearly broke, probably by 2016 - America’s program of Social Security Disability Insurance ought to keep partially impaired workers on the job, economists recommend.

Backus uses eBay experience to study consumer behavior

Assistant professor of economics Matt Backus is using experience from his year at eBay Research Labs to inspire a variety of consumer behavior research projects.