Youth Development Research Update brought to campus more than 50 Cornell Cooperative Extension educators and 4-H program leaders, youth service providers and faculty to discuss issues of well-being in children.
In "Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America," historian Julilly Kohler-Hausmann examines political choices and discourse that have led to mass incarceration and rising inequality.
A national study of higher ed administrators has found that female department chairs, deans and provosts have different attitudes and beliefs than their male counterparts about how to retain women professors in STEM fields.
Support for the existing health care law is significantly higher in U.S. opinion polls when the survey question explicitly mentions "repeal" or "repeal or replace" as an option, according to Cornell researchers.
A person's gender, race and generation matter a lot for whether they are judged as “thin enough” or “too fat." “It looks like obesity is in the eye of the beholder,” said Vida Maralani, associate professor of sociology.
A national commission that included leaders from CALS announced May 16 a comprehensive, coordinated effort to solve food and nutrition security challenges that pose humanitarian, environmental and national security risks.
Elissa Sampson, visiting scholar and lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program, will be honored May 18 with a Lower East Side Community Hero Award in New York City.
Kathleen M. Rasmussen, professor of nutritional sciences, has been recognized by the American Society for Nutrition with the Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition.
Oneka LaBennett's students in oral history and urban ethnography over spring break recorded the life stories of Caribbean immigrants living and working in a rapidly gentrifying part of Brooklyn.
