Fifty Chinese students are on campus this summer attending the Cornell Summer College. The Chinese students are part of the Cornell-China College Preparatory Program (CCCPP) and have just arrived to begin their studies. (June 26, 2008)
Thomas Pepinsky, government, and Eswar Prasad, applied economics and management, have been selected as two of 39 outstanding scholars of Asia to participate in the new National Asia Research Program. (April 14, 2010)
The new Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities is designed to attract scholars from a wide array of fields related to health policy. (June 27, 2011)
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)
In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. (Jan. 5, 2012)
A new Cornell Cooperative Extension program encourages New York families to prepare home-cooked meals with local produce for healthier eating that also benefits the local economy. (Aug. 3, 2009)
Women who have sex early in a relationship are more likely to be dissatisfied later with the quality of the relationship, according to Sharon Sassler, professor of policy analysis and management. (Dec. 19, 2012)
At a talk in NYC Dec. 12, engineering professor Thomas O'Rourke urged better preparedness for natural disasters and surveyed the role of infrastructure in recent calamities. (Dec. 18, 2012)
Speaking to Cornell alumni visiting their alma mater, Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes talked about a reunion with the terra mater, mother Earth. Presenting the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 10 during Reunion Weekend, he urged responsible social policies for the planet.