David Harris, deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences at Cornell, will present a discussion on poverty and inequality, 'Opportunity 101: What Affects Access,' June 18 in New York City. (June 12, 2008)
University photographer Lindsay France won a gold medal in the Individual Photographs category from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. (June 9, 2011)
Cornell University's Department of Food Science announced that Crowley Foods Inc. of Albany, N.Y., with a score of 90.6 out of a possible 100, is the producer of the highest quality milk in New York state for 2003. Upstate Farms of Buffalo came in second place with a score of 87.9. Rounding out the top five high-quality milk producers in the state were: Stewarts Processing Corp. of Saratoga Springs, Parmalat/Sunnydale Farms of Brooklyn and Wendt's Dairy of Niagara Falls. The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program and is sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order. Analytical testing is done at Cornell. (September 15, 2003)
eCornell has decided that its future success requires a smaller, focused organization to specialize in sales and service to corporations and individuals seeking online professional training from Cornell.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' 2009-2012 theme project, 'Judgment, Decision Making and Social Behavior,' is wrapping up three years of work to advance decision-making research.
With no current infrastructure to recycle the plastics used in agriculture, thousands of tons are burned, buried and dumped each year. The result: Dioxins and other hazardous toxicants are getting into the food chain and air, and…
A team of interdisciplinary researchers from Cornell and Ithaca College will study architecture and social interaction in an early civilization on Cyprus in a federally funded four-year project. (Sept. 29, 2009)