High-calorie package images mislead eaters

Pictures displayed on food packages like cake mix have more calories than are listed on the nutrition panel and can lead consumers to significant overeating, Cornell research shows.

Audio of Konvitz' American Ideals lectures now online

Audio from 44 "American Ideals" lectures by legendary Cornell Professo Milton Konvitz, which many Cornellians say shaped their lives, is now available online through DigitalCommons@ILR.

Cooperative Extension enlists help of Army interns

Two active duty Army specialists took internships with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Jefferson Country, New York, to prepare them to re-enter the civilian workplace.

Eating green could be in your genes

Cornell researchers describe a genetic variation that has evolved in populations that have historically eaten vegetarian diets, such as in India, Africa and parts of East Asia.

$4.8 million USAID grant to improve food security

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Cornell a $4.8 million, three-year grant to fight hunger and improve food security using agricultural science and technology.

Performance rankings affect worker effort: researchers

Victoria Prowse, ILR School assistant professor, and colleagues find workers at the far ends of the performance scale curve try harder and workers in the middle put in less effort.

Grants address critical needs of New York communities

Engaged Cornell Cooperative Extension Student Projects grants will support a student project that will collect the stories of New York state farmers with Cornell Cooperative Extension.

$1.2M gift launches research program to better serve youth

In the newly formed Program for Research on Youth Development, Cornell researchers join with the New York State 4-H program to serve 200,000 children and teens.

Mortua lingua discipulorum auxilio reviviscit*

In a new Foreign Language Across the Curriculum class with Michael Fontaine, associate professor of classics, students earn course credit while learning to converse in Latin.