The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded nutritionist Christina Stark almost $500,000 to train extension/community teams on collaborative, ecological approaches for childhood obesity prevention. (April 28, 2010)
Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will speak about robotics at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, April 26 in Rockefeller Hall.
The good news is that all the roads on Cornell's campus - including those that have been closed for construction for most of the summer - will be open Friday (Aug. 20). The bad news is those roads will be clogged with thousands of cars as some 3,200 new students arrive.
Roderick K. Clayton, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant Biology, died Oct. 23. An expert on photosynthesis, he was 89. (Nov. 15, 2011)
The vast majority of elderly Americans want to stay in their homes as long as possible, even if they become ill or disabled. But significant psychological benefits can be gained by planning ahead, well before the onset of infirmity.
The larvae of the viburnum leaf beetle reducing them to skeletal remains emerged during early May in western and central New York state, Cornell University entomologists say.
In response to requests from the Cornell community, the university has just begun offering pet insurance to staff and faculty through Marsh@Work Solutions.
TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson said the finance industry is policing itself and called for better personal finance education at the Johnson's Durland Lecture Oct. 17.