Research Notebook: When researchers use percent of body fat data to assess obesity rather than body mass index (BMI), the huge gap in obesity rates between African-American and white women.
Research Notebook: Evolutionary change can take from decades to millennia, while ecological change can occur over mere days or seasons. However, a new Cornell study shows that evolution and ecology can operate on the same time scale.
Research Notebook: What people desire, hope, fear or wishfully think can influence how they perceive visually ambiguous stimuli, according to a new study by Cornell.
Research Notebook: Cohabitation is unlikely to lead to the altar, especially for poor and minority women. A new Cornell study reports that one-half of all cohabiting unions end within a year and 90 percent within five years.
LeNorman J. Strong, assistant vice president for Student and Academic Services, has announced new directors in Campus Life's senior management team. (June 30, 2006)
Outgoing Interim President Hunter Rawlings has been honored with the renaming of the 10-year-old Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (CPRS) program for undergraduates as the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research…
Communication between medical students and patients took a leap forward recently when 25 people -- out of an applicant pool of 150 -- completed a seven-day training program for medical interpreters at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. (June 30, 2006)
The initiative's programs feature a full range of innovative labor relations and arbitration services such as labor-management training and consulting, and arbitration case administration. (June 30, 2006)
