Extraverted schoolchildren serve more cereal to themselves - while youthful introverts take less - according to a study from the Cornell laboratory of Brian C. Wansink.
Ithaca middle school students learned about disabilities awareness in a four-part curriculum developed by senior lecturer of communication Kathy Berggren and three Cornell undergraduates.
Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
Studies by reproductive physiologist Marla Lujan are leading to new diagnosis guidelines for a condition called polycystic ovary syndrome, a leading cause of infertility.
Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine will open Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists, a referral and emergency care hospital, near the Belmont Racetrack in Elmont, N.Y., in April 2014.
Step away from that ice cream sandwich: Point-of-sale technology may help students eating in school cafeterias refrain from devouring junky frozen treats, flavored drinks and potato chips when their parents receive “nutrition report cards.”
Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.
