Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
The 86th annual, student-run Hotel Ezra Cornell, April 7-10, led by Managing Director Willis Cheng '11, focused on the hospitality industry's role in international business and the global economy. (April 12, 2011)
When Theodore C. Bestor haunts the wharves of New England and the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market in Tokyo, he's not just looking for really fresh fish. What the Cornell University social anthropologist is learning about Japanese expectations for imported seafood may aid the U.S. trade balance.
The natural gas that leaks from hydraulic fracturing processes will do more to aggravate global warming than mining coal, according to a Cornell study published in Climatic Change Letters. (April 11, 2011)
'Change in the Global System' is the theme for a series of lectures and exhibits Oct. 10-17 when the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) celebrate national Earth Science Week.
Michael Wildenstein is the resident farrier at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine -- the only veterinary college in North America with a farrier program.
Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honored 37 Cornell undergraduate students this week, while also honoring the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
Cornell has received two grants totaling $1 million to expand the John S. Knight Writing Program, which seeks to improve student writing and the teaching of writing.