A group of 2002 Johnson School graduates founded Camp $tart-Up, a weeklong summer retreat for girls interested in business careers, as their public service-leadership project for the Park Leadership Fellows Program. (Dec. 10, 2007)
Entrepreneur and alumnus Rob Ryan shared secrets of his success with students in applied economics and management during a Sept. 1 lecture. (Sept. 5, 2008)
This summer, two Cornell undergraduates will hand out free laptops to 100 elementary schoolchildren in the rural city of Tidjikja, Mauritania, in northwest Africa, thanks to a $30,000 grant. (May 12, 2009)
Consumers perceive restaurants with higher menu prices but no tipping to be more expensive than restaurants with lower menu prices and tipping, finds a new study from the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research. (Feb. 16, 2007)
Missy Chase Lapine, author of 'The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals,' has infiltrated kitchen operations at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. (Dec. 5, 2007)
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)
More than 2 billion people -- one-third of the planet's population -- suffer from "hidden hunger," debilitating mineral and vitamin deficiencies that impair growth, physical and intellectual development, activity and survival, especially among women, infants and children in developing nations.
A committee of city of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)
The research could have implications for reconstructing personal ancestries, personalized medicine, drug treatments and mapping risk factors for such common diseases as hypertension and diabetes. (Dec. 22, 2009)