High fashion comes to the Hill April 11

Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.

Stephen Ceci elected to National Academy of Education

Stephen Ceci, Cornell’s Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, has been elected to the National Academy of Education for his outstanding scholarship on education.

Two freshmen earn top Learning Ally awards

For their advocacy for people with learning disabilities, Brian Meersma ’18 and Mara Schein ’18 will each receive the Marion Huber Learning Through Listening National Achievement Award.

Project aims to grow local farms, shrink childhood obesity

A five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help Cornell researchers plan to test a recipe to lower childhood obesity while boosting the bottom line for farmers.

USAID taps Cornell to advance Ebola protective garments

In the war against ebola, Cornell University and two partners will rethink, reimagine and re-engineer protective suits for health care workers on the front line.

Emotion, values called valid in cancer-treatment decisions

Decision-making tools for cancer treatment should incorporate patient's 'essential bottom line,' according to Valerie F. Reyna, professor of human development in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.

New York 4-H'er earns top prize for youth engagement

New York high school student Nosa Akol has received the 2015 4-H Youth in Action Award. Akol was selected from more than 80 candidates nationwide for driving positive community change and overcoming personal challenges.

Professors explore how adults form attachments

A new book edited by Cornell psychologists Vivian Zayas and Cindy Hazan, “Bases of Adult Attachment," explores the cognitive processes behind romantic love and other adult relationships.

Garbarino book goes inside the minds of murderers

Expert witness and Professor Emeritus James Garbarino spent 20 years "Listening to Killers," the title of his new book, which recommends empathy and understanding to break the cycle of violence.