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'Climate Action and U' is theme of Sustainability Month

April will mark the second annual Sustainability Month on campus, with more than 30 public campus and community events related to sustainability activities at Cornell.

Big Red by the Bay panel explores how we make decisions

Six Cornell professors shed some light on the reality of social behavior during 'A Meeting of the Minds: Decoding Our Decisions' at the Big Red by the Bay event March 18 in San Francisco. (March 24, 2010)

Student panelists share big visions, simple pleasures

About 250 West Coast Cornellians gathered for Big Red by the Bay to celebrate Cornell connections, hear from talented professors and students and learn about Cornell's strategic direction. (March 24, 2010)

Retooled Kavli Institute to focus on nanoscience ideas 'so crazy they might actually work'

The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control. (March 23, 2010)

'Minority' youth are now majority in hundreds of counties

By 2050, so-called minority populations will be a majority, but in many places, minority youths already are a majority, reports a Cornell professor. (March 23, 2010)

Johnson School team aims to help New Orleans startups

A team of Johnson School students is competing in the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge this week in New Orleans, working on short-term, high-impact service roles in the city's revitalization. (March 23, 2010)

Videos commemorate 40 years of nutrition education

A new video series depicts the history and future of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for the program's 40th anniversary. (March 23, 2010)

Gubernatorial candidate Lazio tours synchrotron, discusses jobs and Energy Recovery Linac

Learning about Cornell research and discussing ways for the university and New York state to work together were themes of a visit to campus by gubernatorial candidate Lazio, March 22.

DreamWorks guru shares Hollywood 3-D techniques

DreamWorks Animation 3-D guru Phil 'Captain 3D' McNally gave Cornell students a quick survey of some new kinds of visual thinking during a recent visit. (March 23, 2010)

Portions and plates in Last Supper paintings keep growing

Food portions and plates have gradually gotten larger over the last millennium, says a new study that analyzed portions in 52 Last Supper paintings, published in The International Journal of Obesity. (March 23, 2010)

Expert: World has underestimated climate-change effects

Professor Charles Greene asserts in the journal Oceanography that the world's policymakers have underestimated the potential dangerous impacts that man-made climate change will have on society. (March 22, 2010)

CU professors: Expect no New Deal; 'Era of big government helping working people is over'

Don't expect a new New Deal from President Barack Obama, said two Cornell professors. That kind of big government intervention was 'a long exception,' they argued March 18 in New York City. (March 22, 2010)