As a mother watched her young daughter leap around mounds of pumpkins at the Red Hook Harvest Festival Oct. 21 in Brooklyn, N.Y., she whispered in awe to her husband, "This is the largest pumpkin field I have seen in my entire…
From conflict resolution to labor and employment law to a hands-on labor law clinic, Cornell's Law School and School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) are forging innovative cross-campus collaborations with strong outreach…
Researchers have observed that overweight people underestimate how much they eat by twice as much as normal-weight people do. So are heavier people's underestimates intentional?
No, reports a new Cornell study published in the…
The average person makes more than 200 food-related decisions every day, day in and day out -- yet isn't aware of 90 percent of them, says Cornell marketing professor Brian Wansink in his new book, "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat…
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, associate professor of anthropology and of Latino studies, has been appointed the new director of Cornell's Latino Studies Program (LSP). She succeeds Mary Pat Brady, associate professor of English.
The…
Salma Kikwete, the wife of the president of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, has been in New York discussing Weill Cornell Medical College's (WCMC) aim of helping to create the best medical facility in East Africa.
Earlier this year,…
For generations we have been bombarded with the message that "thin is in."
The efficacy of this mantra was just one of the topics discussed at the 24th Annual Women's Health Symposium, Oct. 11 at Weill Cornell Medical Center…
Nanotech devices for biology research, a new way to pasteurize milk, improvements in cellular phone systems and new strawberry varieties were among the 41 patents issued to 32 Cornell inventors during fiscal year 2005-06. They…
A Nov. 4 symposium will honor the life and contributions of longtime Cornell professor Arch Dotson. The former Cornell Institute for Public Affairs director and professor of government died April 6 at age 85.
Donald P. Hayes, Cornell professor emeritus of sociology and developer of LEX, a scientific measure of the lexical difficulty of text, died at his Ithaca home Oct. 17.
The name was modified to reflect a model for social change activism that breaks the traditional us-versus-them approach and seeks to turn adversaries into allies.
