ITHACA, N.Y. -- When their veterinarian said Shasta could die within the year, the Hoffmans were devastated and they faced a tough decision. Should they give up the 6-month-old German shepherd for research into a canine disorder that may parallel some forms of human Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)? Or should they let their own kids enjoy the seemingly healthy puppy while she lived? Cardiac arrhythmias in sleeping dogs are pointing to one possible cause of SIDS in humans. Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University have found that some German shepherds have an inherited abnormality that predisposes them to sudden death at an early age.
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Lani Guinier, whose nomination by President Clinton for the nation's top civil-rights post was derailed following allegations by conservative members of Congress and the media that she had a radical agenda and favored quotas, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell's Statler Hall Auditorium.
The Cornell African Students Association will host a conference on sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa on Saturday, March 30, in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 28 and 29. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A 20-minute open session will be held at the start of the meeting.
A white-tailed deer that had been frequenting a ledge in Fall Creek Gorge on the Cornell campus has left and has not been spotted since Wednesday morning, March 20. Cornell experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Natural Resources and in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation all agreed that the deer should be left alone to find its way out.
Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill.
Ever since India implemented sweeping economic reforms in 1991, investors and journalists, as well as scholars and students, have been keeping a close watch on its progress. At the end of this month, Cornell will host a weekend workshop devoted to India's emerging economy and featuring some of the people who are most familiar with it.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The committee for the 1996 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is inviting proposals from community organizations and agencies. Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Established at Cornell University in 1994 through a grant of $100,000 by the Tompkins County Trust Co., the award is named for the bank's former board of directors chairman, who is the W.I. Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell.
Ruth Chinitz Uris, a Presidential Councillor and longtime benefactor of Cornell, died March 19 at her home in New York City. Through her husband, the late philanthropist and builder Harold D. Uris (Cornell Class of 1925), Ruth Uris became an active and generous supporter of Cornell and its Medical College.
Researchers found that even a small increase in the number of women who have passed through that door to a managerial position dramatically increases other women's chances of being hired or promoted into that position. The result: a Catch-22 situation with important implications for the movement of women into management, as well as for the national affirmative action debate.
Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. (March 20, 1996)
It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.