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.
Jorge de la Guardia, M.Eng. ’74, executive manager for the Panama Canal expansion, gave a Nov. 7 talk, “The Political and Economic Challenges for the Construction of the New Panama Canal,” on campus.
As diners belly-up to a buffet, food order matters. When healthy foods are offered first, eaters are less likely to desire the higher calorie dishes later in the line, says a new Cornell behavioral study in the online journal PLOS One.
A study of an early retirement incentive given to teachers in Illinois in the 1990s shows that although early retirement incentives lead to the replacement of experienced educators with novice teachers, they do not result in reduced student test scores.
More than 150 people, including many students, helped make hygiene kits to ship to girls around the world by the organization Day for Girls. Eight students organized the event.
