A study co-authored by Jordan LeBel, associate professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, and two colleagues shows that women seek comfort food when they're blue, while men indulge when they're happy. The findings may lead to a better understanding about food choices that lead to weight gain or, conversely, promote a healthy lifestyle. (November 15, 2005)
Events on campus this week include Maria Schneider, Ellis Paul, organ and 'Cultural Fusion' concerts, Tommy Bruce on WVBR, WSKG broadcasting from Uris Hall, lectures on race, gardening, Islam.
The Cornell University group that advocates for people with disabilities in the workplace has more staff, renovated headquarters and a new name -- the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI). The institute's mission remains the same, however: to provide research, training materials, programs and technical assistance that make it easier for people with disabilities to be integrated in the workplace, schools and communities. (June 22, 2004)
Cornell Professor Emeritus Paul Wallace Gates died Tuesday, Jan. 5, in the Clairmont House, Oakland, Calif., at age 97. He was an authority on the American West and U.S. public land policies and an ardent conservationist.
Cornell announces a sweeping new financial aid initiative, starting next year, to eliminate need-based loans for all undergraduate students from families with income under $75,000, making it possible for new students to graduate debt-free. (Jan. 31, 2008)
Peter Eisenman, world-renowned architect and 1955 graduate of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will deliver this year's Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
The First Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research, administered by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, is awarded to four scientists who made revolutionary contributions to the discovery and implementation of Oral Rehydration and Maintenance Therapy (ORT) in the 1960s and early 1970s in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and India. Recipients are Dilip Mahalanabis, MBBS, Norbert Hirschhorn, M.D, Nathaniel F. Pierce, III, M.D, David Nalin M.D (see attached biographies)The prize will be presented Friday, November 15, 2002, at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Milstein Hospital Building, following a Symposium on "History of Oral Rehydration Therapy."
Five members of the Cornell faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among the 283 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.