Women entering their senior years with a healthy weight and waist size have a significantly better chance of reaching age 85 without chronic disease or mobility impairment.
Through internships, jobs and courses, students in the Didactic Program in Dietetics gain practical, hands-on experience in running a large-scale food service operation.
Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
Helene Dillard, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, will become dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at her graduate alma mater, the University of California, Davis, Jan. 27.
Forty Cornellians helped plant trees and remove debris Nov. 9 in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., where residents are still recovering from the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.
Older children, interestingly, are more likely, not less likely, than younger children to faithfully imitate actions unnecessary to a task at hand, reports Cornell research.
Policy Meets Design, a new course offered by the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, gives students real-world design experience in health care facilities.
