Workshop offers roadmap to link research, practice

The Research Navigator Initiative workshop brought together faculty with extension educators to talk about new ways to perform and use research June 25-26.

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.

Alumni endow first Africana studies center lectureship

Reuben A. Munday ’69, MPS ’74, and Cheryl Casselberry Munday ’72 have endowed a distinguished annual lectureship at Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center.

Girls’ perceptions drive sexual behavior

A new study contradicts previous findings that the onset of puberty alone influences sexual behavior in young women and identifies genetic influences that play a far larger role that previously thought.

Poor neighborhoods – not poor parents – pack on pounds

A new study finds that neighborhood poverty rather than family poverty contributes to obesity among poor and minority children.

Statisticians to honor census scientist John Abowd

John Abowd, the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, will receive the Roger Herriot Award from the American Statistical Association in August for his work with federal data.

Youth sports 'spill over' to career success

Youthful participation in competitive sports predicts winners in the competition for better jobs.

Power to wage war is focus of D.C. briefing

Cornell law professor Jens Ohlin and U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, an alumnus serving in the U.S. Congress after a long military career, jointly argued June 9 for fundamental changes in how America goes to war.

Current affairs roundtable addresses doctrines, principles

The Reunion 2014 panel featured Fredrik Logevall, Odette Lienau, Jonathan Kirshner.