On February 25th, Cornell's Disabilities Service Troop held a presentation titled Autism Spectrum Disorders: Cognitive Strengths, Weaknesses and Primary Interventions. featuring Dr. Lauren Kenworthy, director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders of the Children's National Medical Center.

Contrary to what some may believe, access to healthcare is not a birthright, and despite the widespread coverage on the controversy surrounding U.S. healthcare reform, understanding the underlying interconnections of the healthcare system can be difficult.

At the Organizing for Social and Environmental Justice Workshop last Monday, Dani Neuharth-Keusch ’12, a Green Corps Field Organizer, led a seminar on organizing campaigns and coalitions to change or stop negative social and environmental legislation.

Young Pristionchus pacificus, which normally function as harmless bacteria-eating roundworms, undergo an unusual, and perhaps monstrous, transformation when food becomes scarce: They resort to cannibalism.  Prof. Frank Schroeder, chemistry and chemical biology, studies the “small molecules” that turn developing P.pacificus into cannibals.

The goal seems simple: live forever. Exercise, eat right, sleep nine hours each night and when all else fails, there is health care.

There is always that kid. He or she is allergic to almost everything. Whether it’s nuts, gluten, or soy, it seems like that kid has no fun at all. Though no one in my family has any major allergies, they often affect me. My four cats, for example, are never a crowd pleaser for “those people.” It seems that since there are so many allergies, scientists would have a thorough understanding of many of them, yet currently, this is not really the case. According to the National Institute of Health, in the US, alone, there are 15,000 to 30,000 anaphylaxis episodes each year, and about 100 to 200 deaths.