Laura Reiley

Washington, D.C.

Writer at Cornell Chronicle

Former business of food reporter, Washington Post. Former food critic, Tampa Bay Times. Contact [email protected]

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Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Credit: Devin Flores/Cornell University A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humanities in early May. In many cases, they are the only written records of these people. Enslavers posted as many as a quarter million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves, in slaveholding states and northern states as well.
Research at risk: optimizing the US military’s nutritional ‘secret weapon’

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

A research project that explores new ways to ensure active-duty military personnel get adequate nutrition has been halted – with further implications for the nutritional needs of the aging and those suffering from chronic diseases. Martha Field, Ph.D. ’07, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), studies how the micronutrients vitamin B12 and folate – also known as vitamin B9 – can optimize health outcomes for combat-stressed soldiers.
Highly-skilled émigrés offer surprising ‘brain gains’ for their home countries

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Highly-educated citizens of low-income countries tend to decamp to higher-income countries in a quest for better pay. It’s called “human capital flight” or, maybe catchier, brain drain. But according to a review paper published on May 22 in Science, there may also be indirect “brain gain” effects. The research was co-authored by Johannes Haushofer, a development and behavioral economist and professor of economics and public policy in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Delicious innovation: Students aim to shake up the food system

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Selina Li ’25 has been a competitive golfer since age 7, growing up in Hong Kong. “Golf has always been a big part of my identity, and nutrition was a big part of that,” she said. That focus inspired her to create Gymii.ai, a new nutrition tracking app. It’s an alternative to the big players in the nutrition tracking space, companies like My Fitness Pal, which require laborious and manual inputting of data, Li said, and are frequently designed for people with specific weight-loss goals.
Four faculty receive 2025 Carpenter Advising Awards

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of tenure-track faculty and senior lecturers to advising undergraduates.
Upcycled grape pomace in chicken feed may improve their gut health

1 month ago | phys.org | Laura Reiley

New York state's grape industry produces 30,000 pounds of grape pomace waste each year. Nationally, that number is roughly 1 million pounds. The grape skins, seeds and stalks left over from the wine and grape juice industries may provide new opportunities to improve the health of chickens and other animals.
Tashara M. Leak receives NYS Senate Women of Distinction award

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

The New York State Senate has honored Tashara M. Leak, associate professor and associate dean of Cornell Human Ecology in New York City, College of Human Ecology (CHE), as a 2025 Woman of Distinction. The award honors women who have made outstanding contributions to their local communities; each senator selects an honoree from their respective district. State Sen.
Students help rural Peruvians grow turmeric business

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

The Cornell students didn’t stay at a hotel, but off the grid, in huts with half walls, deforested grasslands whispering just outside. They were in the heart of the San Martin region of Peru, which has lost 14,000 square kilometers of forest, largely to illegal logging, mining, cattle ranching and illicit crops like coca.
Rooted in a Cornell Collaboration, New York State is Tops for Beets

2 months ago | smallfarms.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

New York state is known for producing the most yogurt, cottage cheese and sour cream of any state in the U.S. But there’s a vegetable that – while not everyone’s favorite – is also No. 1 out of the Empire State. “Every five years there’s a Census of Agriculture, and in 2022, lo and behold, New York harvested more acres of beets than any other state,” said Julie Kikkert, a vegetable crops specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Cornell Vegetable Program.
Vaccines, COVID-19, social networks, vaccine hesitancy

2 months ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Laura Reiley

VACCINATIONSocial Networks Are Not Effective at Mobilizing Vaccination UptakePublished 17 April 2025The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless. Vaccine preferences, based on the COVID experience in the United States, proved quite insensitive to persuasion, even through friendship networks. The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless, according to Cornell research published in March in the journal Health Economics.