Alumni working in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the United Football League discussed innovations in the sports management field at an Entrepreneurship@Cornell talk. (April 18, 2011)
Each of eight student teams went to a different country as part of the Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Teams (SMART) program, to help businesses around the world.
Cornell researchers are spending time in the fields this spring collecting 20,000 alfalfa snout beetles. They need them to test ways to biologically control the pests, which devour alfalfa and other crops.
For decades, scientists have known that unhealthy surroundings induce human illness. Now, research suggests that communities of very sick people may damage the environment, according to a new study in PNAS, April 3.
Gustavo Arnavat '84, U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, spent April 6-7 on campus talking to classes and faculty members. (April 15, 2011)
Self-employed women working in digital creative industries, such as blogging or marketing, feel compelled to conduct business online in a traditionally feminine way, said Brooke Duffy, assistant professor of communication.
Would a so-called Twinkie tax help curb obesity rates? Should shoppers who buy healthy goods earn rebates? A new study will seek to unravel the likely implications of legislative attempts to promote healthy eating. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Ornithologist Andrew Farnsworth in New York City told members of the media Sept. 6 about a project that develops bird migration forecasts. (Sept. 10, 2012)
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is raising $200,000 to endow the Root-Marks Fund for Field Teaching to fund 2-week formative field study for graduate students in Florida.