A course developed by Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, connects her 15 students with nonprofit organizations on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, to work collaboratively on projects that address community needs.
A task force on the management sciences finds that the Cornell's many highly ranked, specialized business education programs may have the potential for collaboration.
Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Kelly Zamudio will analyze the effects of active learning activity modules on learning goals for classroom lectures as the 2017-18 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell.
Soda taxes and beverage portion size restrictions were unpalatable to the 1,319 U.S. adults questioned in a 2012 survey as part of a study reported online March 10 in the journal Preventive Medicine.
VIVO http://vivo.library.cornell.edu creates a virtual life sciences community, bringing together in one Web site all the information needed to figure out who is doing what, where and how in the life sciences at Cornell.
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Rodney Dietert, Cornell professor of immunotoxicology, has penned a new book that calls for a new paradigm in how we view public health and human biology.
Health care buildings in the United States use lots of energy and few embrace sustainability, but a study led by Cornell researchers writes a green prescription for finding practical solutions.
Examining changes in parental unions near the time of childbirth, Cornell social science researchers have found that premarital births do not predict breakups so long as couples marry – at some point – after a child is born.