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Panel: Pandemic has exposed long-standing health inequities
“For those of us living in black and brown bodies … it’s not unprecedented, it’s business as usual, unfortunately,” said Rachel Hardeman, associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. “Like other epidemics...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships
Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
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  • Animal Science

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Center advances social sciences research with spring grants

Those are some of the questions scholars will study with the help of $118,000 in grants awarded by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The center this spring funded 14 research projects and two conferences, involving two-dozen faculty...

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Exposure to TV alcohol ads linked to drinking behavior
Aired in 2012, those were just a few of the nearly 600 televised commercials for alcohol products – mostly beer – that the average American adult was exposed to that year, according to new Cornell research. The study provides some of the most...
  • Department of Communication
  • Food
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Study takes on e-cigarette warning ‘paradox’
As controversy swirls around the vaping industry, a team of Cornell researchers is helping regulators identify the most effective health warnings to include in advertisements for electronic cigarettes.
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior
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CALS honors talent, dedication of faculty & staff
On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The awards recognize the notable and wide...

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Health inequities and storytelling in new podcast episode

“My work has sought to identify specific strategies that both convey fundamental causes of health inequities but also offer promising solutions to address them via policy change,” says Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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Study: Red or blue, Americans value effort to achieve success
Liberals and conservatives may agree on at least one thing: the importance of working hard in order to succeed. According to new Cornell-led research exploring the foundations of morality, liberals and Democrats are far more inclined than...
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