The Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs will allow researchers to offer expertise nationwide and will be a hub for psychological and economic research of childhood nutrition. (Oct. 12, 2010)
Taking care of an aging or disabled loved one can be hazardous to your health, but certain personality traits appear to reduce caregivers' risk for health problems.
Experts gathered at Cornell Sept. 17 for a daylong symposium on “Food Security in a Vulnerable World,” at which suggestions were offered to G20 leaders in absentia.
Kenneth L. Robinson, the L.H. Bailey Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics and Management, who taught and conducted research at Cornell for 36 years, died recently at age 89. (Dec. 10, 2010)
The second season of 'Sidelines,' a weekly show featuring interviews about Cornell Athletics, kicks off Sept. 28 with host David Keating '10 and Kent Austin, Cornell's new football coach. (Sept. 22, 2010)
Cornell is abuzz all summer with some 4,000 students taking classes or doing research, 400 adults in Cornell Adult University and scores of visitors taking part in one of 60 conferences on campus. (June 25, 2010)
Even low-level PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) contamination disrupts how some birds sing their songs, report Cornell researchers in the September issue of the science journal PLOS ONE.
Eight first-year students from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, are visiting Cornell Sept. 25-Oct. 6 as part of a leadership training program. (Sept. 29, 2011)
Mathematics professor John Hubbard discussed how closing roads and bridges helps speed up traffic in his April 30 talk, 'The Price of Anarchy,' as part of Math Awareness Month. (May 9, 2011)