http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/Basu.kr.html The government of India has named Cornell economist Kaushik Basu as its new chief economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance. He will be on leave from Cornell for two years, beginning in December. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:09:50 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/KidsFoodStamps.html Almost half of American children -- and most black children and children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households -- will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point while growing up. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:51:34 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/PinstrupAndersen.html Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the 2001 World Food Prize laureate, has been named 'the most important Dane in the world' in combating poverty by Denmark's leading development magazine. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:59:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ILR.NetterConf.html The difficulty of finding a job in the current economy when a candidate has the additional handicap of a criminal record was the focus at the Richard Netter Conference, Oct. 9 in New York City. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/NIHwomen.html Two Cornell research teams have each received National Institutes of Health grants to identify factors influencing the careers of women in biomedical and behavioral sciences and engineering. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:27:22 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ClicksLinguistics.html Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African language. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:28:01 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/cooperationConf.html Understanding of honeybee interactions could have implications for why people act selfishly in a communal system, said Professor Kern Reeve, one of the presenters at the Oct. 16 conference. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:30 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/IsraelConsul.html In his campus visit Oct. 15, Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, said he is still optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:51:09 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/HatfieldPrewrite.html H. Fisk Johnson '79, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, will speak about challenges arising from the global consumption crisis at the annual Hatfield Lecture Oct. 22 in the Statler Hall Auditorium. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:13:56 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/EhrenbergMellon.html 'Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities' is a new book with first author Ron Ehrenberg that looks at attrition and completion rates in humanities Ph.D. programs. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:43:33 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ConsumerPerception.html A new Cornell study finds that while higher prices may generate a more positive view of products, a higher price tag doesn't mean consumers will necessarily buy them. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:22:23 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/eShipBigIdea.html 'The Big Idea' competition offers undergraduates the chance to win $2,500 for their business or social enterprise ideas. Its first deadline is Dec. 23. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:19:48 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/BelmonteAutism.html Matthew Belmonte, assistant professor of human development, is looking for order behind the many behavioral and physiological features of autism. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:16:18 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ACLUPresident.html In a talk at Cornell Oct. 8, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union said that protecting civil rights has improved in the age of Obama, but that it's not yet 'mission accomplished.' Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:07:18 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/RomanEmpireNYC.html Our economic climate may seem grim, but our situation is far better than that of Rome in the third century, assistant professor Kim Bowes told alumni at the Weill Greenberg Center in New York City Oct. 8. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:53:30 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ILRDisability.html The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy has awarded a $1.6 million grant to the ILR School's technical assistance center for employers on employment of people with disabilities. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:08:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/AlumnaMumbai.html Lynne Gadkowski '98, a public affairs officer at the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai, has seen terrorism and coups as foreign service officer. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:03:33 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/BulgariaResearch.html In Bulgaria, the Cornell-affiliated American Research Center in Sofia facilitates academic research and fosters collaboration with researchers in former communist countries. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:18 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/CAREER2.html Five more Cornell faculty members have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, some with federal stimulus funding. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:22:22 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/BarrettSoils.html Researchers have linked poverty in sub-Saharan Africa with poor soil health, but two new Cornell studies find that the recommended practice of applying more fertilizer may not help the poorest farmers. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:51:15 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/EqualityFreedom.html A campus debate on 'Discrimination: Free Speech and Religious Liberty vs. Equality and Respect?' was held on Sept. 22 in Sage Chapel, discussed same-sex marriage, hate speech and religious freedom. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:43:46 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/modelUN.html A Sept. 16 model United Nations debate, argued in nine languages about global sustainability issues, was the first event of the year for Cornell's Language House on West Campus. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:17 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/SmithAwardProposals.html The committee for the 2009 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for grant proposals for up to $3,000 from student leaders and organizations by Oct. 31. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:15:10 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/einaudiDebate.html Panelists spoke on the causes and possible outcomes of the financial crisis Sept. 15 in a debate that is part of Cornell's Foreign Policy Initiative led by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:38:29 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/workingFamilyfood.html Such working conditions as irregular work schedules, long hours and job dissatisfaction of parents in low-income families significantly impact family food choices, reports a new Cornell study. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:44:35 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/SmithPerspectives.html The Rev. Robert Smith, the Robert R. Colbert Sr. '48 Catholic Chaplain at Cornell, offers a perspectives piece on the the upcoming Colbert Symposia series. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:21:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/ILRSmithers.html ILR School Professor Sam Bacharach and his colleagues have filmed the personal stories of recovering alcoholics as they reflect on their lives and struggle to remain sober. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:41:17 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/HochschildCover.html Arlie Hochschild, a University of California-Berkeley sociologist who spoke on campus Sept. 3, said many people outsource personal services. The result is estrangement and isolation. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:31:00 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/LINKalliance.html The LINK: Men's Alliance, a student organization that helps minority male students succeed and network at Cornell, announced that it is launching a mentoring and scholarship program this year. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:06:35 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/KellsAngels.html Some early manuscripts, including the Book of Kells, contain artwork that is microscopically precise, despite being created centuries before microscopes. John Cisne explains how it could have been done. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:05:05 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/ShoalsPrehistoric.html This summer, students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Lab, Cornell's marine field station, discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:24:45 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/designLanguage.html The interior design field now has a language of its own, thanks to Professor Jan Jennings, who has spearheaded an online database for contemporary design that includes a new vocabulary. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:06:50 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/NYcomptroller.html N.Y. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli kicked off a workshop of the Local Government Leadership Institute on campus, Aug. 13, aimed at helping local governments deliver services at a lower cost to their constituents. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:13:11 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/breastcancerObesity.html A Cornell program, Small Steps Are Easier Together, is reaching out to rural communities and workplaces to get women to be more active and eat more healthfully to lower breast cancer risk. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:53:34 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/RhodesProf2009.html Cornell's newest Rhodes Professor R. Spencer Wells has spent much of his career studying humankind's family tree and closing the gaps in the understanding of human migration. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:46:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/ILRgatewayGrant.html A National Science Foundation grant awarded to two ILR School researchers will create a Social Science Gateway, unlocking enormous amounts of social sciences data on people, jobs and firms. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:14:59 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/MellonGrant.html Cornell Library has received a $375,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to continue to help historically black colleges and universities create and manage digital collections. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:19:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/VicosRevisited.html More than 50 years ago, a Cornell mission to a small village in Peru made profound changes, some good, some bad. Today, Cornell may help the community again. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:45:00 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/NewsTracking.html Using online versions of the news, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the way stories rise and fall in popularity. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:22:19 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/RwandaTrip.html The trip was organized by the Cornell Public Service Center and conceived by Stephen Paletta '87, whose nonprofit organization, the International Education Exchange, hosted the students. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:52:40 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/collaborativePoll.html A Cornell/New York Times/NY1 poll asked New Yorkers their views on obesity, key politicians, the economy and gay marriage in early June. Questions were contributed by Times pollsters and Cornell faculty members. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:56:37 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/DefiantGardens.html Cornell is helping the military plant Defiant Gardens to give military families a way to connect with each other, with civilians and with their deployed parent or spouse. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:51:45 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/DiversityInstitute.html The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity, held June 7-10 at the ILR Conference Center, helped 19 Cornell professors navigate the sometimes complex territory of diversity. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:27:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/PaidWeightLoss.html When a large company offered cash rewards to its obese employees to lose weight, few of the workers lost more weight than those in the control group, reports two Cornell researchers. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:17:23 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/discriminationStress.html A new study by Cornell assistant professor Anthony Ong sheds light on precisely how chronic racial discrimination and stress spillover lead to psychological distress. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:24 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/mosaic.reunion.html David Harris, deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences, spoke about the need for continuous attention to diversity issues in his talk in Malott Hall June 6. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:25:00 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/TataLectures.html Ratan Tata '59, chairman of India's Tata Group, presented the new $2,500 Nano minicar and addressed 'Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century' with President David Skorton June 5. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:57:15 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/PerspectiveMcmansions.html A Cornell design professor says that more families may be moving to smaller homes because of the recession, but that families don't need a McMansion to have perfect places to interact. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:09:16 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/pizarro.disgust.lg.doc.html People who squirm when confronted with slime or get grossed out by gore are more likely to be politically conservative than their less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:43:25 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/fightingParents.sl.html Teens tend to do significantly better academically and behaviorally when they live with both biological parents, but only when their parents do not argue a lot. If they do, the results are more mixed. Fri, 29 May 2009 14:25:44 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/bilingual.kids.sl.html 'Cognitive advantages follow from becoming bilingual,' says Barbara Lust, a developmental psychology and linguistics expert. 'These cognitive advantages can contribute to a child's future academic success.' Tue, 12 May 2009 18:38:50 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/PovertyKickoff.html The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. Wed, 06 May 2009 22:51:19 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/ContentiousKnowledge.html On April 29, the 2006-09 Contentious Knowledge team summarized its research on how scientific and social scientific expertise shapes public policy and becomes a focal point of social and political conflict. Wed, 06 May 2009 22:47:56 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/BabyLabGrant.html Assistant professor Michael Goldstein has received a $352,000 National Science Foundation grant over the next three years to learn more about how infants learn to talk. Wed, 06 May 2009 22:44:23 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/depressionDorm.html Freshmen at three universities this fall will be asked to participate in a study to determine how roommates and social networks affect students' mental health. Mon, 04 May 2009 15:11:09 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/electoralStudy.html Government professor Christopher J. Anderson is co-investigator for an international collaborative research project that will examine elections in Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:49:45 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/nurse.homevisits.sh.html A series of Cornell studies in the 1970s and '80s showed that a nurse home-visiting program for low-income women pregnant with their first child can help alleviate some problems caused by poverty. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:47:16 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/PovertyBrains.sh.html A new Cornell study reports that the chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their ability to read and problem-solve and develop language. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:04:48 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/SickInAmerica.html The Sick in America series begins April 20 and will highlight issues of health care from the perspectives of physicians, patients, economists and policymakers. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:28:19 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/AlumOperationOF.html Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:40:25 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March09/asaAppts.html In August Richard Swedberg will begin a one-year term as chair of the American Sociological Association's theory section, and Dan Lichter will step down from his post as chair of the ASA's family section. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:03:47 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March09/NYC.sciTeach.nn.html The Science Leadership Academy provides ideas, supplies, mentors and networking opportunities that the academy hopes the teachers will use to engage students in biology, chemistry and physics. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:56:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March09/women.mathscience.sl.html Women are underrepresented in math-intensive careers not because they lack good math ability, but because they prefer other careers with more flexibility to raise children, says a new Cornell study. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:01:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March09/prisonEd.da.html Each semester, volunteer faculty and teaching assistants teach a liberal arts curriculum free of charge to inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility who can now work toward an associate's degree. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:29:12 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/RikersHydroponics.aa.html Philson Warner, an extension associate with Cornell's Cooperative Extension in New York City, has set up a hydroponics lab for teen inmates at the Rikers Island jail. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:18:13 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/ILRdisabilities.html The ILR School's Employment and Disability Institute, as a partner in a $12 million initiative, is working to help overcome the problems that New Yorkers with disabilities have in getting jobs. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:57:05 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/falseMemories.sk.html New research has implications for the accuracy of legal testimony in criminal cases and how interviews and interrogations in violent cases could be better conducted. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:02:15 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/ISS.director.sk.html The government professor and new director of the ISS views his main task as bringing together researchers with similar interests from various disciplines who otherwise might not meet. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:00:53 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/populationProgram.sh.html The Cornell Population Program, with a new $1.15 million grant, conducts research and trains others to use demographics to improve lives, nationally and internationally. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:49:48 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/surveys.lying.mw.html People lie on surveys to boast about themselves or to avoid embarrassment, among other reasons, but there was no evidence of the so-called 'Bradley effect' in the November presidential election. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:37:29 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/Sr.decisions.sl.ar.html Psychologist Joseph Mikels studies how emotion interfaces with such cognitive processes as working memory and selective attention, and he applies this to decision making in the elderly. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 011:57:22 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/RichardsonParis.da.html Associate professor Riche Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:48:27 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/languageEvolu.sk.html Professor Morten Christiansen challenges the long-held theory that human language stems from a genetic blueprint. Instead, he says, the neural machinery used for language likely predates the emergence of language itself. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:05:26 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/informal.science.sl.html Such activities as visiting museums and zoos and watching science documentaries significantly contribute to scientific literacy, according to a new report from the National Research Council. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:26:14 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/CarbonStar.html The observation gives scientists a glimpse into the early universe and enlivens a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:17:20 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/food.terrorism.sl.html In a study, when people at a buffet learned that the chicken being served might be tainted by bird flu, they ate less of it. But they ate even less when they were told that terrorism was behind the flu threat. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:25:53 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan09/seniorInnov.sh.html Students have developed ideas for a machine that allows seniors to put on their pants without bending over, a coat that cushions a fall and a jacket that is easy to pull on and off while sitting in a wheelchair. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:48:41 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/EntreprenSurvey.kh.html A survey of alumni from the Cornell Entrepreneur Network found that taking even one entrepreneurship class made a graduate's attitude toward entrepreneurship much more positive. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:11:00 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/Cameroon.demogr.bc.html Cornell development sociologist Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue is working to improve Francophone African students' training in population science so they can help improve policies in their home countries. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:01:58 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/worldBank.mf.html This fall, Cornell welcomed a Pakistani bureaucrat and a Bhutanese agricultural official to campus through the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:56:04 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/KendalModels.sh.html Interior design and behavioral science students collaborated on a project this semester to design new fitness and physical therapy spaces at Kendal at Ithaca. They built full-scale models of their proposed solutions. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:29:04 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/OngPerspec.html Anthony Ong reviews what he's learned from his research on how positive emotions promote mental and physiological health. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:37:08 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/Trochim.NSF.sh.html William Trochim has received a $2.3 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to develop a Web-based system that will help evaluate science-based education programs. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:21:42 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/CoachForAmerica.html The College of Human Ecology graduate is coordinating a new national program, Coach for America, that will one day place thousands of trained coaches into schools, nonprofit organizations and clubs. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:12:05 EDT http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec08/torture.speakers.lj.html Staff from the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture at New York University spoke to a Cornell audience Nov. 20 about how they help victims of torture heal. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:23:22 EDT