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Robinson-Appel Award recipients create community-engaged solutions to social challenges

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Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice

Group offers skills, and friendship, to local students with disabilities

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Community Engagement

Book examines how digital culture is affecting our memory

Department

Technology + Human Thriving

CHE and CCE partner with Hannaford to tackle childhood obesity

Department

Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health

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Hannaford has awarded Cornell University a $225,000 grant to study the causes of childhood obesity and promote programs to reduce obesity-related health risks. The funding supports collaboration with childhood obesity experts to determine community needs and create programs to address those needs.

Nearly 20% of children aged 2-19 are considered obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The project is led by Angela Odoms-Young, the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of

East Asian adults more prone to iron-related chronic disease

Department

Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice

William Sims Jr., emeritus design professor and former chair, dies at 86

Attendance improves in rural NYS schools with on-site health clinics

Department

Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health