Karen Comstock, assistant dean for public service at Cornell Law School since 2004, will be honored April 5 in Myron Taylor Hall's Berger Atrium as the 2006 winner of the Law School's Anne Lukingbeal Award.
The annual award was…
A study finds that after fasting or dieting one day, people do not overeat to compensate but gain any lost weight back. The findings have implications for why diets fail and how weekly fasting might work. (March 26, 2010)
Cornell graduate students Andrew Harwood and Michael Lukianoff hope to create a wine growers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers in depressed rural communities there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.
Do computers have feelings? The significance of "affect" in both technological design and digital art is the focus of a two-day interdisciplinary symposium April 22-23 on the Cornell campus.
At a time when American military forces are stretched thin overseas, a growing number of potential recruits are too fat to enlist, according to an analysis by Cornell economists. (Oct. 14, 2010)
A major reason why maltreated children do worse in school than nonmaltreated children may be because their families move much more frequently and they change schools often, according to a recent award-winning Cornell study.
The Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs will allow researchers to offer expertise nationwide and will be a hub for psychological and economic research of childhood nutrition. (Oct. 12, 2010)
At the Library Salon Oct. 7 in New York, several people affiliated with Moosewood discussed the restaurant's history and archives. The Moosewood collection was recently donated to Cornell Library. (Oct. 12, 2010)
Professor and Senior Associate Dean Barbara Knuth has been named vice provost, effective April 1, and dean of the Cornell Graduate School for a five-year term, beginning July 1, Provost Kent Fuchs announced.
The early spider catches the web site. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Cornell University have discovered how large female spiders in colonies are able to claim enough territory to rebuild their daily webs