Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
To see if rural towns benefit from selling local farm products to urban consumers, the USDA awarded a $500,000 grant on Feb. 25 to a team of Cornell researchers led by economist Todd Schmit.
Charles Brainerd, professor and chair of the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, has been elected to the National Academy of Education for his contributions in the field of education research.
New research by Karl Pillemer, the Hazel E. Reed Professor in the Department of Human Development, has demonstrated an effective approach to reduce staff-family conflict in assisted living facilities.
Professor John Cawley is the editor of 912-page volume, 'The Oxford Handbook of The Social Science of Obesity' (2011), a new 'Rosetta stone' on the causes and consequences of obesity. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Kathleen M. Rasmussen, professor of nutritional sciences, has been recognized by the American Society for Nutrition with the Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition.