New York student wins High School Fashion Design Award

Sarah Song, a student at Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg, N.Y., is the winner of the first High School Fashion Design Award from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design. (March 16, 2010)

Students toil -- designing, pinning, sewing, fitting -- to produce fashion show

More than 70 students showed off their original designs at 'Once Upon a Runway,' the 26th annual Cornell Design League fashion show, at Barton Hall, March 13.

Coat can charge cell phone, iPod, MP3 player

Abbey Liebman '10 designed a solar-powered jacket that captures the sun's rays to charge cell phones, iPods and other handheld devices. It debuted at the Cornell Design League Fashion Show March 13.

Grad student, alumnus receive Soros fellowships

A Filipino-American graduate student and a Lebanese-American alumnus are among 30 new Soros fellows, who are immigrants or children of immigrants. (March 10, 2010)

In the battle against childhood obesity, review effectiveness before implementing policies, says Cornell economist

Before developing specific anti-obesity strategies, lawmakers should review the evidence on program effectiveness and costs to avoid policies that won't work or will waste money, says Cawley. (March 4, 2010)

Students gain insights from noted economist

Economist Robert Moffitt, a leading expert on the economics of welfare reform, recently spent a week at Cornell to lecture in classes and work with students. (March 2, 2010)

Grocery shoppers who try harder to track costs do worse

The harder consumers try to track how much their groceries will cost, the worse they do, according to a new study co-authored by Brian Wansink in the March issue of the Journal of Marketing. (March 1, 2010)

Blog sorts info: The good, the bad and the ridiculous

A new Cornell Cooperative Extension blog, written by a Cornell professor and a consumer scientist, tries to help consumers decipher good science information from bad.

Students learn power of information during Kenya trip

Eight students recently returned from teaching nutrition and HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya with the student-led Cornell group Enrich: Project Kenya.