A new study led by Anthony Ong reports that the poorer health that widows and widowers experience is from the steep drop in positive emotions, rather than the jump in negative emotions. (April 11, 2011)
Katie Broadbent '09 and Arthur Maas '09 are working with Andy Potash '66 to design a business with one goal in mind: creating jobs for workers often overlooked by employers.
Social scientists are turning to their own methods in order to study themselves. The Ford Foundation has awarded $197,000 to Cornell University's Institute of European Studies for a project to enhance academic policy research and scholarship about the social sciences, a diverse area of study struggling in an increasingly competitive academic environment. The project is called "The Social Sciences at Risk: The Differential Impact of Changing University Environments on the Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities." The Ford Foundation grant will fund a workshop and a symposium through 2003, under the direction of Davydd Greenwood, Goldwin Smith Professor of anthropology at Cornell. The workshop will be used to develop, and partly execute, a long-term research agenda and to organize a symposium composed of senior scholars, university administrators and foundation officers, and policymakers. (April 8, 2002)
On Sept. 30 the board of trustees approved the appointment of Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, as Cornell’s next president. Garrett, who will be the first woman to lead the university, will assume the presidency July 1, 2015.
A study of Internet chain letters shows that such messages do not fan out widely, reaching many people in a short time, but instead travel in long straight lines, with the last recipient several hundred steps away from the originator.
Walter Isard, professor emeritus of city and regional planning and economics, has died at age 91. Isard was an influential scholar who founded the fields of regional science and peace science. (Nov. 11, 2010)
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded Kelly Patterson and Sarah Thebaud, Cornell doctoral students who are studying entrepreneurship, 2008 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowships of $20,000 each. (Jan. 4, 2008)
Based on the success of a $1.4 million program launched in 2001, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Cornell University an additional $1,785,000 over five years to continue postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and social sciences.
Blue forms adorning the Ag Quad are more than whimsical art to engage passersbys: the shapes are visions of what landfill architecture might look like in the future, according to Katherine Jenkins.
On Oct. 6 President Elizabeth Garrett visited the university's New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, where she lauded its work and contributions to New York state's economy.