A new book edited by human development professor Valerie Reyna tackles the biological origins of economic decisions in the new field of neuroeconomics.
Tickets for Employee Celebration, slated for Oct. 13, are on sale for staff, faculty, retirees and their families, including athletic events, dinner and children's activities. (Sept. 5, 2012)
This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
After no health plan rate increases in 2010, the endowed health plan premium will increase 6 percent in 2011, below the national average for increases. Enrollment period begins Nov. 1. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Nancy Schlichting '79, president and CEO of the Henry Ford Health System, gave the Wagner Memorial Dinner lecture May 8, speaking to Sloan Program in Health Administration alumni and students. (May 24, 2010)
The 25th annual student-run Cornell Design League fashion show in Barton Hall April 4 featured more than 60 student designers and 200 original ensembles on 170 live student models. (April 9, 2009)
Kirby Edmonds, a Dorothy Cotton Institute senior fellow, will present the keynote address at a luncheon, Jan. 20, at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Librada Paz, council member of the western New York for the Rural and Migrant Ministry, will give an afternoon keynote at Ithaca College.
A new course, Hydroponic Food Crop Production and Management, teaches the principles and practices of commercial food crop production in controlled environment agriculture.
The 15th annual symposium will feature 88 engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing 'exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.'
Researchers plumbing the mysteries of the brain gathered on Sept. 29 to share their discoveries at the inaugural Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium in the Biotechnology Building.