Proposal topics include WTO disciplines and biofuels; the process of social displacement and militarization; and the world food crisis as a lens on global development. (Nov. 10, 2008)
A Cornell study links low-income children's higher weight in part because they have less access to open green space where they can play and get exercise.
The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.
The ILR School's Kheel Center - the foremost repository of information on the Triangle Waist Factory fire of 1911 - commemorates the disaster's centennial. (Feb. 16, 2011)
William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will visit Oct. 25 to meet with students and local business leaders, and give a public lecture on the outlook for the economy. (Oct. 14, 2010)
A new study contradicts previous findings that the onset of puberty alone influences sexual behavior in young women and identifies genetic influences that play a far larger role that previously thought.
Nearly one in five nursing home residents in 10 facilities across New York state were involved in at least one aggressive encounter with fellow residents during the four weeks prior to a study by researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell.
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)