Using data from “Shark Tank,” economist Sharon Poczter found that women entrepreneurs got about half as much funding for their startups as men – but only because they asked for less. The takeaway? Ask and you shall receive.
Being out in nature has been proven beneficial to mental health, and a new website, CUinNature.cornell.edu, lists nearby places students can go to immerse themselves in the great outdoors.
Researchers find that people who were relatively tall as teens are more likely to invest in stocks, and those who were overweight are more risk-averse and less likely to participate in the market.
As biofuels become an increasingly viable alternative, Cornell researchers are making sure that growing grasses for biofuel won't face inadvertent snares.
With a plan to harness the wind, sun, water and the Earth’s heat, a panel from the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group explained to the Cornell community Oct. 31 how the campus could become carbon neutral by 2035.
Physician Wayne Waz '84 spoke with students in professor Stephen Hilgartner's class on "Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine" to share his experience with the changing medical profession.
Cornell University has launched the largest single scientific effort in its history: the New Life Sciences Initiative, a campuswide program that will forever change the way life-science research is conducted and taught at the university. Involving investments of up to $500 million, the initiative will require the largest fund-raising campaign for a single project ever attempted by Cornell. Announcing the new initiative, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings said the effort will engage "the most broadly respected faculty in the country" in what he predicted will be "great research, great teaching and great outreach" in all aspects of the life sciences. Key to the huge program of discovery and education is the integration of life sciences with physical, engineering and computational sciences. (May 8, 2002)
After eight years of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania, residents still have mixed feelings about it, report researchers at Cornell's Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference, Dec. 13. (Dec. 14, 2011)
Two hundred teens and preteens from 16 school districts in southeastern New York learned how to decrease their schools’ environmental impact at the Catskills Youth Climate Change Summit March 11.