According to Prof. Emeritus T. Collin Campbell, nutritional sciences, protein should only comprise ten percent of your diet, and frequent meat consumption can lead to higher incidence of cancer. 

A recently published study by Weill Cornell indicates that researchers have wiretapped the elusive communication system of neurons, allowing us to pharmacologically boost signaling in cases of neurodegeneration, such as that associated with Parkinson’s disease. This work shows that one specific protein – cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) – hugely impacts the number of neurotransmitters conveyed to neighboring neurons.

Sometimes, even chemical engineers have reason to party.

On February 4th, 2010, the chemical engineers of Cornell gathered to celebrate Prof. Matthew DeLisa, chemical and biomolecular engineering. He received tenure in May 2009, but decided to postpone the celebration until Olin Hall's renovation was complete. Although postponed, the party went on.

For more than a handful of food industry executives, T. Colin Campbell, nutritional sciences, is public enemy number one.

“It’s really between me and the dairy industry,” he said.

Campbell is the son of a dairy farmer and the first in his family to attend college. He grew up glugging milk like any good Virginian farm boy. Why, then, is he a self-described heretic in the nutrition community?

Campbell is a professor emeritus in nutritional sciences, but he is known worldwide for his best-selling book The China Study. Co-authored by Campbell’s son Thomas ’99, The China Study places Campbell’s most famous project within the context of his research at large.