A new study from professors in Cornell's Dyson School finds that junk food is not the culprit for obesity. Sedentary lifestyles and and inadequate consumption of healthier foods is the culprit.
The American Research Center in Sofia, founded in 2004 by two members of Cornell's classics department, has been awarded a $750,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Feb. 26, 2010)
About 225 people attended a public discussion Nov. 24 on strategic planning for Cornell University Libraries. Many faculty who attended called for more say in library-related decisions.
The Cornell in Turin program was recognized in an Italian newspaper for students' work with community centers in their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.
ILR School professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn finds an eight percent wage gap that cannot be accounted for, even after controlling for variables that influence workers' pay.
Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus earns bragging rights when the world's first high-rise residential building built to passive house standards - a rigorous energy use standard - rises on campus.
In a new textbook, 'Food Policy for Developing Countries,' Cornell economist Per Pinstrup-Andersen analyzes how national and international food policies can reduce poverty and improve economic growth. (Sept. 21, 2011)
The director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center hopes to launch the center into a nationally known premium social sciences research center that sponsors groundbreaking work on human development and economic and family demography.
Graduate student Margaret Demment won the best student oral presentation prize at the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity meeting in Austin, Texas, May 23-26.