Agribusiness conference focuses on economy, immigration reform
A weak U.S. dollar, war spending and falling housing prices are likely to contribute to weakening the 2008 economy, said a Cornell economist who shared his predictions at a Dec. 18 agribusiness conference at Cornell. (Dec. 21, 2007)

CISER director John Abowd steps down
After more than eight years at the helm of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, John Abowd is stepping down and devoting himself full time to his own teaching and research. (Dec. 21, 2007)

Dr. Positive tries to find what's right with people
Anthony Ong, assistant professor of human development, studies positive psychology, believing that people can mindfully choose to focus on their positive emotions, which may lead to promoting healing and easing pain. (Dec. 11, 2007)

Law School starts exchange program with Peking University
Cornell Law School is set to launch a student exchange program with Peking University beginning in fall 2008. The program marks the law school's first formal agreement with the premier law school in China. (Dec. 10, 2007)

ADVANCE data shows equitable salaries for CU men and women
However, women faculty at Cornell are generally less satisfied than their male counterparts with their jobs, says a recent report by the CU-ADVANCE Center, relying on data from a Faculty Work-Life Survey. (Dec. 10, 2007)

Cornell Law School team continues to update Rwanda's laws
Law Professor Robert Summers is almost a year into serving as principal co-drafter of Rwanda's code of contract law. The entire project, as intricate and complex a piece of legal work as there could be, is being done entirely pro bono. (Dec. 6, 2007)

New class examines international current events
The Einaudi Center's new course called Issues Behind the News: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Current Events is proving popular with undergraduates. (Dec. 5, 2007)

Students present living solutions for Kendal residents
Two classes in Cornell's design and environmental analysis department collaborated with local senior citizens to design and build four full-scale models for the senior housing facility's dining and living areas. (Nov. 30, 2007)

Michael Barany earns Marshall scholarship
Cornell's newest Marshall Scholar is Michael Barany, a College Scholar and senior mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. (Nov. 21, 2007)

Taiwan prosecutors-in-training will attend Cornell Law School
Two Taiwanese lawyers who are training to become prosecutors will attend the Cornell Law School next fall for one academic year as part of the law school's first formal international program for prosecutors. (Nov. 21, 2007)

Trauma earlier in life may affect response to stress years later
Cornell researchers report that rapes, sudden deaths of loved ones, life-threatening accidents and other such traumas may result in long-term changes in the stress response in some people, even if they don't have post-traumatic stress disorder. (Nov. 19, 2007)

Most college students wish they were thinner, study shows
Almost 90 percent of normal-weight women in a Cornell study of 310 college students yearn to be thinner. But most overweight women don't want to be thin enough to achieve a healthy weight. (Nov. 15, 2007)

Love for chocolate is at least 3,000 years old, anthropologists say
The human love affair with chocolate is at least 3,000 years old, according to new evidence from the Ulua Valley region of Honduras. But the first people to appreciate the cacao tree were probably after a fermented drink. (Nov. 14, 2007)

ILR report connects disabilities, employment and poverty
The Third Annual Disability Status Report reveals that almost 38 percent of people with disabilities are employed, compared with almost 80 percent of people without disabilities. (Nov. 13, 2007)

ILR report connects disabilities, employment and poverty
The Third Annual Disability Status Report reveals that almost 38 percent of people with disabilities are employed, compared with almost 80 percent of people without disabilities. (Nov. 13, 2007)

Social scientists receive small grant awards for nine projects
Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support among other efforts. (Nov. 12, 2007)

CU sociologist to study impact of West Bank barrier
Christine Leuenberger, who also has studied the Berlin Wall and Korea's demilitarized zone, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar research grant to study the social and cultural ramifications of the West Bank barrier. (Nov. 6, 2007)

Economics: From dismal to sexy in three decades
Economics is the hottest major in the College of Arts and Sciences these days. With upward of 600 students tallied in the department's 2006-07 annual report, economics is by far the college's largest major. (Nov. 6, 2007)

Using financial markets to pull billions of people out of poverty
Professor Chris Barrett believes that technology, new approaches to financing aid and international markets can pull billions of people permanently out of poverty. (Nov. 5, 2007)

CALS honors students teach children about sustainable strategies
Members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Honor Society taught local children about strategies to reduce poverty by bringing a sheep to their 4-H Urban Outreach Afterschool Program. (Nov. 1, 2007)

David Patel on 'Islam and Insurgency in Iraq'
In an Oct. 25 talk, David Patel, Cornell assistant professor of government, said the real reasons behind Iraqi violence aren't sectarian and religious, but economic and anti-occupation. (Oct. 31, 2007)

Free publications and videos give parents research-based advice
In upstate New York, Cornell human development experts conduct research ranging from risk taking to how noise affects learning. (Oct. 30, 2007)

New projects include apple, biofuel and invasive species research
The USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service will fund 94 new programs this year, including projects that teach youths to cook to promote healthy eating. (Oct. 30, 2007)

Johnson School professor uses virtual reality in class
Graduate students in Professor Rob Bloomfield's Business and Oversight in Second Life seminar use avatars, or virtual personas, to study business and policy issues in the virtual-reality world of Second Life. (Oct. 22, 2007)

CU team helps Bulgarian university develop master's program
A team of Cornell professors have helped a Rousse University, Bulgaria, develop a master's degree program and off-campus certificate program in regional development. (Oct. 22, 2007)

Record humanities gifts put campus campaign over $1 billion
Cornell has received 14 major new gifts totaling $71.5 million that include the largest donations in the university's history to the arts and humanities. (Oct. 19, 2007)

Gifts for social sciences will help get and keep 'the best people'
Two distinguished Cornell departments, two major gifts -- one big boost for the social sciences at Cornell. (Oct. 19, 2007)

Publisher Kenneth Kahn '69 endows deanship for ILR School
Kenneth F. Kahn's $5 million gift to endow the deanship of the Cornell ILR (industrial and labor relations) School is the largest from a donor in the school's history. (Oct. 18, 2007)

Thinking outside the block: Alumni launch toy to promote thinking
Derek Cabrera, Ph.D. '07, a visiting fellow at Cornell, focused his doctoral dissertation on a toy he invented called ThinkBlocks to teach abstract thinking skills in children and adults. (Oct. 17, 2007)

Cornell offers Socially Responsible Apparel Business program
Poor working conditions and disregard for the environment are endemic to apparel factories, so Cornell has helped launch 10 one-credit online courses on social responsibility in the industry. (Oct. 15, 2007)

Conference confronts gap in black and Latino student achievement
Strategies for improving retention and achievement among minority college students were explored at a conference sponsored by Cornell, the Teagle Foundation and Credit Suisse, Oct. 2-3 in New York City. (Oct. 4, 2007)

Study shows impact of protests on stock prices
Professor of sociology Sarah Soule examines how public protest and subsequent media coverage affects corporate stock prices. (Oct. 1, 2007)

New CALS major offered in agricultural sciences
A new major to give students an interdisciplinary education in the biological, social and economic foundations of agriculture is now offered in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (Sept. 27, 2007)

Teagle conference to address minority achievement gap in higher ed
An Oct. 2-3 conference in New York City will build upon the Teagle Foundation report, 'Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in College Completion and Achievement: What Works and Why,' released in November 2006. (Sept. 25, 2007)

Top gum: CU students who chew through exam spit out high scores
Students in an introductory marketing course received free samples of Wrigley's new brand of gum, '5.' Professor Ed McLaughlin discovered that those who chewed it during their prelim scored remarkably better. (Sept. 25, 2007)

'Healthy' restaurants help make us fat, says a new Cornell study
The 'health halos' of healthy restaurants often prompt consumers to treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts than when they eat at fast-food restaurants that make no health claims. (Sept. 24, 2007)

Weill Cornell awarded $49 million to create new medical center
In an effort to translate medical research into practical and accessible treatment, Weill Cornell Medical College will lead a new Clinical and Translational Science Center funded through a $49 million award from the National Institutes of Health. (Sept. 19, 2007)

CU study: Full-spectrum lighting does not affect restaurant sales
A test of full-spectrum lamps in a local restaurant found no support for the idea that full-spectrum light changes diners' behavior, according to a new report issued by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research. (Sept. 14, 2007)

IMPACT initiative looks to improve participation in clinical trials
In a new initiative, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have teamed up to develop strategies to better understand and enhance patient participation in clinical trials. (Sept. 13, 2007)

Summer interns apply smart growth ideas to Coral Gables, Fla.
Smart growth and small business development in South Florida were the focus for five Cornell students this summer serving as interns in the Cornell in Miami Program. (Sept. 10, 2007)

Grants for emeriti faculty to 'make the world a better place'
Cornell emeriti faculty are invited to apply for Podell Emeriti Awards for Research and Scholarship, for work 'related to making the world a better place to live for all peoples of the Earth.' (Sept. 4, 2007)

DigitalCommons@ILR: Research bulletin board for the world of work
DigitalCommons@ILR is a worldwide bulletin board for the research and scholarship of the ILR School, managed by the Martin P. Catherwood Library. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Students learn how laws differ at Paris Summer Institute
The Cornell Law School's Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, attracts students from all over the world to study how other legal systems function. (Aug. 24, 2007)

Garden Mosaics wins international recognition
Garden Mosaics, an interactive urban natural resources extension project available on DVD, has been recognized in the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment competition. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Caroline schoolchildren benefit from a FEAST
FEAST for Health is a Cornell food-based nutrition education program in which children prepare unfamiliar, healthy foods in class and the foods become part of school lunch. (Aug. 1, 2007)

Cornell apparel historian Elsie Frost McMurry dies at age 99
Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita of textiles and apparel -- an apparel historian, scholar, designer, dressmaker and former curator of the Cornell Costume Collection -- died July 25 at age 99 in Michigan. (July 31, 2007)

Exposure to smoking-cessation product ads helps smokers quit
The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful -- even without buying the products, finds a Cornell study. (July 23, 2007)

Movie based on book by Rachel Maines debuts July 28
Cornell historian Rachel Maines' scholarly book, 'The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction,' has been made into a documentary that will premiere at Lincoln Center, July 28. (July 19, 2007)

Why kids should 'think like a scientist'
The 'Thinking Like a Scientist' program, developed by Cornell's Wendy Williams, teaches disadvantaged children the scientific method and why it is so relevant to their lives. (July 19, 2007)

ILR and HumEc team up for nursing home study
Faculty members from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and College of Human Ecology will examine how new medical information technologies affect both employees and residents in nursing homes. (July 16, 2007)

Jobs in finance and medical research going to India, study shows
Low-skilled services aren't the only occupations shifting overseas, says the ILR School's Sarosh Kuruvilla. His latest research shows that many high-skilled U.S. jobs are being outsourced to India. (July 12, 2007)

Einaudi Center holds international art workshop for K-12 teachers
The interdisciplinary approach of the June workshop, 'Teaching World Culture Through Art,' was intended to encourage local art teachers to more fully integrate international studies into their curricula. (July 12, 2007)

New Yorkers say state economy is getting worse, survey shows
When it comes to the economy, the New York state of mind is deteriorating, according to the 2007 Empire State Poll, a yearly survey conducted by Cornell's Survey Research Institute. (July 12, 2007)

'Operation READY' helps families of deployed soldiers
Cornell is a land-grant partner to the U.S. Army in sustaining families of the active Army, National Guard, and the Army Reserve. The university's Family Life Development Center is supplying the Army with materials to help families cope (June 26, 2007)

Reunion panel discusses the universities of the future
How the digital revolution is driving universities to change was addressed by Donald Greenberg, Frank Rhodes and Ronald Ehrenberg at a June 8 talk sponsored by the Class of 1957. (June 12, 2007)

CaRDI launches publications and programs on community development
Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute has issued new publications in its continuing effort to help rural communities development programs, policies and training programs. (May 29, 2007)

Study examines how youth with disabilities transition to work
Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Employment and Disability Institute will partner with New York state on a five-year, $5.1 million study to help high school students with disabilities successfully go to college and get good jobs. (May 27, 2007)

Feldman to lead Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program
Shelley Feldman, professor of development sociology, will bring an international perspective to Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program when she becomes its director July 1. (May 22, 2007)

Helping citizens participate in government rule-making
To help government agencies deal with rule-making in the Internet age and make the process more accessible to the public, Cornell scientists and legal experts have created the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative. (May 16, 2007)

Guess who's coming to dinner: 55 seniors dine at Becker House
Most busloads of visitors to Cornell are schoolchildren on field trips, but on May 8, four buses delivered 55 senior citizens from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Carl L. Becker House. (May 11, 2007)

Does tenure really work?
Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci write a Cornell Perspectives piece on why tenure doesn't necessarily confer moxie, and other findings from the frontlines of academic freedom. (May 10, 2007)

Traumas make brains more reactive to fear, Cornell study shows
Even people who seemed resilient but were close to the World Trade Center on 9/11 have brains that are more reactive to emotional stimuli than those who were more than 200 miles away. The study is one of the first to look at the effects of trauma on the brains of healthy people. (May 3, 2007)

Program houses emphasize community, culture and giving back
Open to all, program houses can enhance students' academic learning, offer unique resources, activities and community service opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging within the giant Cornell community. (May 2, 2007)

Tenure isn't providing academic freedoms as intended
Although tenure serves several important functions, it does not confer academic freedom as much as it was intended, especially among associate professors, according to a new Cornell study. (May 2, 2007)

Rare abolitionist newspapers available to scholars worldwide
The Friend of Man, a newspaper published for the New York State Anti-Slavery Society between 1836 and 1842, is now available online to scholars worldwide, thanks to Cornell University Library. (April 26, 2007)

Social networks in job searches is becoming more common in China
In China's expanding economy, who you know is increasingly important in filling jobs. That was one issue discussed at the Conference on Chinese Capitalism, held April 20-21 on campus. (April 24, 2007)

John Agresto speaks on democracy and higher education in Iraq
On April 17 Agresto lectured about his experiences as senior adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2003-04 and the influence they had on his ideas about democracy. (April 24, 2007)

Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs than other youth. But when they have supportive mothers, they do not experience these changes, finds a new Cornell study. (April 20, 2007)

ILR School announces new program: Globalization and the Workplace
Globalization and the Workplace will be administered by the international programs committee of the ILR School and will have a substantial presence both in New York City and Ithaca. (April 18, 2007)

CU hosts international conference on Chinese capitalism
Bringing together scholars from around the world April 20-21, the conference will explore how the rise of capitalism in China affects politics, markets, entrepreneurship, property rights and social structure. (April 18, 2007)

Africana Center to host 'Imaging Ethiopia' symposium
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center will host an international symposium, 'Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy and Modernity,' April 20-21 in the center's Multipurpose Room, 310 Triphammer Road. (April 17, 2007)

Twelve projects to receive 2007 social science grants
The Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences has awarded 12 new small grants as part of its biannual funding program. (April 11, 2007)

Sociologist Victor Nee wins 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
Victor Nee, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, is one of 189 artists, scholars and scientists selected from more than 2,800 applicants for the 83rd annual competition. (April 11, 2007)

Astronomer, 'mating expert' team up to teach about outreach
The Cornell professors are teaching a course on developing outreach programs to give children and teens in a less-privileged area of the Ithaca community a taste of what Cornell might offer them in the future. (April 11, 2007)

Eating with our eyes: Why people eat less at unbused tables
People who saw how much they had already eaten -- e.g., leftover chicken-wing bones -- ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink. (April 9, 2007)

Incarceration and fatherhood workshop is April 13
The Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences is sponsoring an 'Incarceration and Fatherhood Workshop,' Friday, April 13, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 290 Myron Taylor Hall. (April 9, 2007)

Bringing the world home: 2007 Cornell Abroad photo exhibit
Photos taken by Cornell Abroad students offer a window into some of the exotic and enriching experiences they encountered this past year while studying in one of about 40 countries. (April 5, 2007)

Entrepreneurship@Cornell fosters the entrepreneurial spirit
Entrepreneurial education is not just for business majors anymore, stresses Cornell's universitywide Entrepreneurship@Cornell program, which offers 100 courses across eight colleges. (April 3, 2007)

Cornell Entrepreneur Network fosters links in CU community
Fostering entrepreneurship at Cornell not only includes courses, lectures and other events in Ithaca, but also a national network of alumni entrepreneurs. (April 3, 2007)

CU's interior design program ranked No. 2 nationwide
The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis has been ranked the best program in the East and second nationwide in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence magazine. (March 29, 2007)

Study identifies key ways to improve corporate training programs
Two relatively inexpensive strategies -- self-coaching and anonymous feedback from subordinates -- can strengthen the lessons of classroom management training, says a new study by J. Bruce Tracey and Michael J. Tews. (March 26, 2007)

Students spend alternative spring break volunteering
Teaching self-defense, creative writing and Internet skills to battered women at a shelter in Welch, W.Va., are just a few of the ways that nearly 150 students spent their spring break this year. (March 26, 2007)

Dean Lisa Staiano-Coico heads to Temple University as provost
Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, has been named provost of Temple University, effective July 1. (March 23, 2007)

Kaushik Basu gives an Indian perspective on globalization
Professor Kaushik Basu comments on the impact of globalization, his latest book on economics in India and Cornell's links to India. (March 21, 2007)

Researching the changing matrix of immigration
Michael Jones-Correa, professor of government, has been immersed in two projects that look at the dramatic demographic shifts of immigrants. (March 21, 2007)

U.S. religious nationalism is problematic, says Penn minister
Although religious beliefs can inspire one to strive for national justice, 'wrapping the flag with the cross' is problematic for the country, said Rev. Michael Eric Dyson of the University of Pennsylvania speaking at Cornell March 15. (March 20, 2007)

Law professor to give talk following U.S. Supreme Court appearance
John Blume will discuss his U.S. Supreme Court argument to defend death row inmate William Weaver on Thursday, March 28, at 4 p.m. in the Saperston lounge in Myron Taylor Hall. (March 20, 2007)

Unabomber's brother speaks out against the death penalty
David Kaczynski, executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty and brother of 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski, spoke March 8 about the issues plaguing capital punishment in the United States. (March 20, 2007)

Health policy roundtable focuses on covering N.Y.'s uninsured
At a recent health policy roundtable at Weill Cornell Medical College, President David Skorton stressed the need for Cornell campuses to work on universal health insurance for New Yorkers. (March 15, 2007)

Faculty, students to meet in Cairo on water shortages in Med region
It took a humanist to lasso the talents of Cornell lawyers, engineers, development sociologists and others to teach a new graduate course, 'Water and Culture in the Mediterranean: a Crisis?' (March 13, 2007)

Classics, anthropology experts to give University Lectures
Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins and historian Francois Hartog will deliver free public lectures at Cornell this month as part of the University Lectures series. (March 6, 2007)

Despite allure of Internet surveys, face-to-face interview is best
The quality of survey work over the past decade has declined as the Internet has become an increasingly seductive tool for quick, cheap data collection, said Stanford's Jon Krosnick in a campus lecture. (March 5, 2007)

Any person ... any question: Ask Dear Uncle Ezra for advice
For two decades, Dear Uncle Ezra, the world's first online advice column, has aided the perplexed, the shy and the confused. (Feb. 20, 2007)

Kroch Library unveils Human Rights Campaign collection online
The records of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-rights organization, were unveiled at a Feb. 8 reception at Kroch Library. (Feb. 13, 2007)

Feminist Visualities speakers discuss the future of feminist art
The Feminist Visualities conference concluded Feb. 3 with a discussion on the future of art practice and education as it relates to issues of gender and identity. (Feb. 13, 2007)

Wildlife conservation project will send CU researchers to Zambia
Cornell is partnering on a wildlife conservation project in Zambia that saves animals' lives by addressing a powerful threat: Poverty and hunger that force families to poach or clear-cut forests to create temporary farm fields. (Feb. 7, 2007)

Buffalo child care really does mean business, ILR study shows
Child care is a vital part of recent efforts to restore the 'Queen City' of the Empire State back to its former regal status, according to a Cornell study, 'Buffalo Child Care Means Business.' (Feb. 6, 2007)

Why Braille on drive-up ATMs? Robert Frank says it's all economics
Professor Robert Frank's latest book, "The Economic Naturalist," is a collection of intriguing questions inspired by his students and illustrated by numerous original drawings by New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens. (Feb. 6, 2007)

Sociologist exposes biases that affect women in business, academia
Associate Professor Shelley Correll talks about her research, which focuses on gender inequality and social psychology. (Feb. 6, 2007)

25 years of gay-rights struggles traced in online exhibit
The Human Rights Campaign chose Cornell over the Library of Congress and other contenders to house its official records, now the subject of an online exhibition. (Jan. 30, 2007)

Cornell led Ivies in 2006 Peace Corps recruits
Cornell produced more Peace Corps volunteers than any other Ivy League institution in 2006 and ranked third among like schools nationally, according to statistics released by the federal agency. (Jan. 26, 2007)

EU Commission funds local effort to get to know Europe
Cornell's Institute for European Studies has received a grant that will provide outreach opportunities and will pair Ithaca with Elios Proni, Greece, located on the island of Cephalonia. (Jan. 26, 2007)

Food and mood: The sad are twice as likely to eat comfort food
People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by Cornell's Brian Wansink. However, when nutritional information is available, those same sad people curb their hedonistic consumption, but happier people don't. (Jan. 23, 2007)

Team Cuisine: Students that cook together, bond together
The Hotel School has debuted a new program, Team Cuisine, to ease the transition for transfer students. (Jan. 23, 2007)

Lecturer explains process of helping students to succeed
Harvard professor Richard J. Light discussed his research about making colleges more effective learning environments by improving communication between graduate students and postdocs and faculty. (Jan. 23, 2007)