The new Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities is designed to attract scholars from a wide array of fields related to health policy. (June 27, 2011)
Various Cornellians reaped prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, June 11-14, including a student team who took first prize for developing cassava cookies for poor countries.
A Cornell conference considered issues that lead to fewer women completing doctoral degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. (June 24, 2011)
Cornell's New York City footprint may soon grow larger with the addition of a new applied sciences research center and campus. The university plans to respond to a Request for Proposals for the project this summer.
A new Cornell study suggests that long-term, regular use of vitamin E in women 45 years of age and older may help decrease the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by about 10 percent. (June 15, 2011)
In an inaugural competition named for Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein '31, 14 students wrote and delivered sermons related to contemporary social justice issues this spring. (June 10, 2011)
Two common bacteria involved in what was thought to be only a marginally important relationship actually help each other thrive when grown together in bioreactors, say Cornell scientists. (June 9, 2011)
