Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
Workers in poorly ventilated offices are twice as likely to report the symptoms of sick building syndrome as are employees in a well-ventilated environment, a new Cornell study finds.
Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30-May 1, 1998.
Overweight and obese women have significantly less success breast-feeding their babies than their normal-weight counterparts, according to a new Cornell/Bassett Hospital study, and biological factors largely may be why.
Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents.
A new manual, co-authored by Cornell social gerontologist Karl Pillemer, focuses on how to help nurse supervisors in long-term care facilities improve their leadership and supervisory skills.
Two of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, announced last week by the White House, will go to Cornell faculty members: Linda K. Nozick, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and Patrick J. Stover, assistant professor of nutritional biochemistry.
Students and faculty at Colorado State University will be reading publications from the stacks at Cornell's Mann Library for the next year or so, in a special arrangement to help the Colorado school deal with a devastating flood that destroyed many of its library's holdings.
