Examining data for 1990 to 2003, Cornell Professor William White and other researchers found that discounts secured by managed-care organizations declined between 2001 and 2003. (March 13, 2008)
Tiffany Todo '06, Susan Dauber '06 and Juliana Eisner '05 work as designers, and Jessy Curro '05 is a merchandise manager at Steve & Barry's, the clothing retailer that launched the Sarah Jessica Parker clothing line BITTEN last summer.
Dr. Michael Latham, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at Cornell, was honored with a U.N. Standing Committee of Nutrition Award of Merit, March 5 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Cornell will inaugurate the John L. Doris Memorial Lecture Series in honor of the founding director of the Family Life Development Center in the College of Human Ecology, who died Jan. 22 at age 84. (March 7, 2008)
In an exchange program between Cornell's College of Human Ecology and Hong Kong's Polytechnic University, space and the future take on new meanings for Ithaca students.
Cornell's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections includes the Dora Erway Doll Collection, which comprises 37 costume dolls whose clothing and bodies were largely made by students in the 1920s. (Feb. 21, 2008)
Construction on a new 290-car garage behind Martha Van Rensselaer Hall has begun as the first of a two-phase, $77.7 million construction project for the College of Human Ecology. (Feb. 4, 2008)
Jean Failing, Cornell professor of home economics and education and dean of the College of Human Ecology from 1974 to 1978, died Jan. 30 in Ithaca. (Feb. 1, 2008)
