The Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell is hosting 11 faculty fellows as part of its new in-residence program, awarding each a $10,000 grant to pursue their research beginning in September. (June 9, 2008)
Thomas Pepinsky, government, and Eswar Prasad, applied economics and management, have been selected as two of 39 outstanding scholars of Asia to participate in the new National Asia Research Program. (April 14, 2010)
A new Cornell survey finds that health insurance reform is a top priority for New Yorkers, and they are willing to pay higher taxes so more people can be insured. (Oct. 27, 2008)
Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
The new Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities is designed to attract scholars from a wide array of fields related to health policy. (June 27, 2011)
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)
In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. (Jan. 5, 2012)
A team of Johnson School students is competing in the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge this week in New Orleans, working on short-term, high-impact service roles in the city's revitalization. (March 23, 2010)
Harvard's Charles Ogletree delivered the Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on 'The Combustible Mixture of Race, Gender, Religion and Politics: Lessons Learned From the 2008 Political Campaign,' Oct. 7 at the ILR School. (Oct. 8, 2008)