Workshop offers roadmap to link research, practice

The Research Navigator Initiative workshop brought together faculty with extension educators to talk about new ways to perform and use research June 25-26.

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.

C.C. Chu honored for bioengineering research

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering named fiber scientist C.C. Chu to its College of Fellows, an honor reserved for the world’s top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers.

Fiber Science & Apparel Design adds new B.S. degree

The Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design has added a B.S. degree in fiber science and updated its curriculum for its renamed B.S. degree in fashion design and management.

Girls’ perceptions drive sexual behavior

A new study contradicts previous findings that the onset of puberty alone influences sexual behavior in young women and identifies genetic influences that play a far larger role that previously thought.

Poor neighborhoods – not poor parents – pack on pounds

A new study finds that neighborhood poverty rather than family poverty contributes to obesity among poor and minority children.

Atkinson Center awards $1.4 million to new projects

Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future gives $1.4 million from their Academic Venture Fund to 12 new scientific projects. The awards were culled from a record-setting 49 proposals.

Experts offer new findings on youth at research update

Several Cornell faculty members shared their research on youth with Cooperative Extension county leaders, 4-H educators and community partners at the Youth Development Research Update, June 3-4

At Reunion, honoring Cornell's post-WWI work in Belgium

Medals awarded to College of Human Ecology founders Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose by the Belgian king in 1925 will be displayed at Reunion.