Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund, will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell.
People who vacation at destination spas return home feeling a much greater sense of self-understanding as well as more connected to family, friends and work associates than do people who take other kinds of vacation, according to a study by Mary H. Tabacchi, associate professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
Valdemar Velasquez was only 6 when he began working in the sugar beet fields of Ohio to help put food on his family's table.
He knew that his Mexican-born parents wanted more for him, but as impoverished migrant farmworkers…
Visiting nurses have helped reduce child abuse and neglect by up to 80 percent over a 15-year period among a group of low-income, unmarried women visited during their pregnancies and the first two years of their babies' lives.
Events on campus this week include sustainability expert/graduate student Annie Leonard with 'The Story of Stuff;' the annual Pao Bhangra show; films about bees and AIDS; the 22nd Cornell Jazz Festival and a climate readiness conference.
Editors' picks for events the week of Dec. 5 include a Christmas concert, alternative gift fair, jazz and music from Istanbul, dance, modern art and an agribusiness conference. (Dec. 5, 2008)
Dr. Richard Coico has been named vice provost for inter-campus affairs, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced. This is a joint appointment with the university's Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. His term began April 15, 2005, and will continue through June 30, 2010. Coico also will have a faculty appointment at the medical college as professor of microbiology and immunology education.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has designated a 13-member national consortium as the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), creating the world's largest and most accessible nanoscale laboratory. The consortium will enable university students and researchers, as well as scientists from corporate and government laboratories, to have open access to resources they need for studying molecular and higher length-scale materials and processes and applying them in a variety of structures, devices and systems. Named to lead NNIN is Sandip Tiwari, director of the NSF-funded Cornell Nanoscale Facility (CNF), a national user facility on the Cornell campus. NSF funding to the new network is expected to be $70-million or higher for five years, beginning in January 2004, with the possibility of a five-year renewal. (December 22, 2003)
Viewing a person as dishonest or immoral can distort memory, a Cornell study suggests. So much so, that when we attempt to recall that person's behavior, it seems to be worse than it really was.