Sloan students get inside look at health policy on D.C. trip

In Washington, D.C., students in the Sloan Program in Health Administration attended the Intersession Health Policy Symposium Jan. 19-20, including eight sessions on health administration and policy. (March 5, 2012)

Workshops teach NYC residents how to 'live greener'

Cornell's Cooperative Extension-NYC's 'Living Green' program is teaching residents in 30 affordable housing residential buildings how to live 'greener' and more healthfully.

Group seeks new ways to help underserved New Yorkers

The Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medical College harnesses resources of many institutions in New York to promote research from lab bench to bedside and to the community.

Queens imam spreads the gospel of good eating

Extension educators in New York City are changing the way that people at mosques, senior centers and soup kitchens eat by giving free nutrition workshops and sidewalk education.

Speaker urges consumers to get political about their food

In discussing the politics and science of calories Feb. 20 as the inaugural Wolitzer Nutrition Seminar speaker, nutrition expert Marion Nestle urged consumers to get more political about their food. (Feb. 21, 2012)

Study: New approach could more effectively diagnose personality disorders

Personality disorders could be more effectively diagnosed by identifying and targeting the disrupted neurobiological systems where the disorders originate, report Cornell researchers.

Obama's election changed racial identity of black students

A new Cornell study reports that the 2008 election changed African-American college students' perceptions of being black. The study is published in Developmental Psychology.

Playing with little ones brings child development to life

Big Red Buddies is a new program that places Cornell students at the Cornell Child Care Center to read to and play with the children - and to learn and be inspired.

Study: women leave math-intensive science fields when they decide to have kids

Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children, report two Cornell professors.