Each year $160 billion worth of wasted food ends up in America's landfills. A Cornell economist has received a two-year, $500,000 USDA grant to get consumers and food distributors to squander less.
A national study of higher ed administrators has found that female department chairs, deans and provosts have different attitudes and beliefs than their male counterparts about how to retain women professors in STEM fields.
Christine Leuenberger recently returned from a six-week visit to Tel Aviv University, where she studied the implications of the Israel/Palestine wall. (Aug. 16, 2010)
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station will receive a total of $7 million from New York state to foster craft beer brewing, food testing and offer expanded technical training to farmers.
On April 17, Ngugi wa Thiong'o will share his thoughts in a discussion, “The Barrel of a Pen: Politics and Struggle in African Writing,” at 5 p.m. at the Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road.
Robert Howarth spoke to the University Assembly Oct. 18 about the recently released Senior Leaders Climate Action Group report on options and their associated costs for achieving a carbon-neutral campus by 2035.
Trying to lose weight, be less nervous when speaking publicly or improve in some other way? One strategy that can help is to switch your point of view from the first-person to a third-person perspective when reviewing your progress.
Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, a member of AmeriCorps, urged students to become active citizens and 'social entrepreneurs' in his Iscol lecture Sept. 20.
Teaching self-defense, creative writing and Internet skills to battered women at a shelter in Welch, W.Va., are just a few of the ways that nearly 150 students spent their spring break this year. (March 26, 2007)