New York, NY (April 12, 2002) -- A large, randomized study of more than 3,000 New York City schoolchildren has shown for the first time that a school-based prevention program that teaches early adolescents drug refusal skills and other essential behaviors can significantly decrease binge drinking for as long as two years after the initial intervention. The program is the LifeSkills Training (LST) program developed by Weill Cornell Medical College."This is the largest and most rigorous prevention study conducted with inner-city youngsters, and one of the first to examine binge drinking in these youth," said the study's lead investigator, Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D., an internationally known expert on drug abuse prevention, who is Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Weill Cornell's Institute for Prevention Research. Dr. Botvin is also Chief of the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior in Weill Cornell's Department of Public Health and Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents.
The first report on college drinking conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was released today (April 9, 2002) at a news conference in Washington, D.C.
An exhibition drawn from one of the largest collections of George Bernard Shaw materials opens April 17 in the Exhibition Gallery of Cornell University's Carl A. Kroch Library.
Effective senior management teams play a greater role in company success than charismatic CEOs, according to a new study by Randall S. Peterson of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Slavishly devoted to a charismatic figure, wearing more hair on their toes than on their wrinkled heads, living in the underground among scores of near-identical gang members with really gross personal hygiene — they're the kind of cult parents pray their children won't join.
When the National Geographic Society's hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the "camerawhales" will be tracked by the Cornell Bioacoustics Research program.
Joe Thomas, a noted scholar, dynamic teacher and proven academic administrator, has been named dean of Cornell's world-renowned Johnson School. Thomas has been serving as interim dean since June 2007. (March 27, 2008)
Despite the huge loss of life and the massive damage caused by the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, the utility systems beneath the buildings 'held up remarkably well,' a Cornell engineer with wide experience in investigating disasters reports.