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)
A new four-year study by the ILR School's Kate Bronfenbrenner finds that employers use coercive tactics to discourage formation of unions. (May 20, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Cornell and the Africana Studies and Research Center are co-sponsoring a major international conference, 'Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan,' at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 21-22. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
A group of Cornellians has created a Web site where the public can create the history and platform of an ideal candidate: Senator DeWiki. The researchers are studying civic participation. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Government professor Christopher Anderson, a former semi-pro soccer player, has launched a statistically based soccer blog. He predicts Brazil will take the cup in South Africa this summer. (June 9, 2010)
The income disparity between workers at the top and those in the middle and bottom the income scale keeps widening, Francine Blau told alumni at 'Opportunity 103: Inequality at Work,' Oct. 2 in New York City. (Oct. 3, 2008)
Taking a conflict resolution approach to the invasion of the Republic of Georgia by Russian troops, retired U.S. career diplomat John McDonald came to campus Sept. 29 to announce a plan to alleviate the crisis. (Sept. 30, 2008)
Rich Marin, former chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management, and Johnson School professors Bob Jarrow and Maureen O'Hara, examined the roots of the nation's financial meltdown, Sept. 24. (Sept. 30, 2008)