Four members of the IthaQatar Ambassadors went to Doha over spring break to advocate for an official exchange program between Cornell's Ithaca and Qatar campuses. (April 15, 2010)
Focus more on care and less on disease treatment in the elderly to cut health care costs, said Robert Martensen, National Institutes of Health, in the Sick in America keynote address, April 12. (April 14, 2010)
The big winner of the Big Idea competition went to two juniors for a technology-enhanced bed net that helps prevent malaria while using solar power to help residents charge cell phones and run fans. (April 18, 2011)
Cornell has announced that it will fund a new medical college facility as an investment in biomedical research, and it is taking advantage of historically near-low interest rates to rebalance its debt portfolio. (April 12, 2010)
Medicinal biochemist Eloy Rodriguez, who hails from a poor Chicano Texan town and is now a Cornell professor, stressed the need for more Latino scientists as a speaker at the National Institutes of Health. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Forty-seven students minoring in Cornell's new Global Health Program spent the summer in various low-resource countries doing volunteer work and research as part of the requirements for their minor. (Sept. 11, 2009)
At a time when American military forces are stretched thin overseas, a growing number of potential recruits are too fat to enlist, according to an analysis by Cornell economists. (Oct. 14, 2010)
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)
The recently designed intercampus Web site includes a matchmaking service to forge research connections between Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses. (May 23, 2008)
A study finds that after fasting or dieting one day, people do not overeat to compensate but gain any lost weight back. The findings have implications for why diets fail and how weekly fasting might work. (March 26, 2010)