Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Cornell students designed winter boots that improve circulation and a jacket with built-in headphones for people in wheelchairs, among other products as part of a textiles course. (Dec. 7, 2009)
A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will help researchers translate knowledge in social science into treatments, intervention programs and policies related to pain disorders. (Dec. 7, 2009)
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Three local nonprofit organizations will receive a total of $10,000 in grants from a class in the College of Human Ecology designed to teach students about philanthropy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
Researchers at Cornell's Survey Research Institute, along with Princeton and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, are conducting a survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey. (Dec. 2, 2009)
