Black History Month is about "recognizing the fact that African-Americans as a people made major contributions to American history and culture," says Margaret Washington, an associate professor of history at Cornell.
Welfare reform provides New York state an opportunity to examine all its programs affecting families, children and work, but to benefit from that opportunity, programs need to be carefully planned and evaluated using state-of-the-art research, a Cornell expert said.
Cornell is the lead institution in a new national center for research on electric power systems. It is funded by the NSF, electric utility companies, the Electric Power Research Institute and the participating educational institutions.
One of the most bizarre and baffling cat behaviors, fabric-eating, is the subject of a new study at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where nearby cats are sought for medical trials. Fabric-eating may be a form of feline obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to animal-behavior specialists who plan to treat cats with small doses of the same antidepressant drug used by some human OCD patients.
"Spring Field Ornithology," the eight-week course that teaches identification, life histories and behavior of spring migrants and resident birds of the Finger Lakes area, is open to the general public.
Nita L. Irby, D.V.M., has been named director of Student Support Services at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. Announcing the appointment is acting Dean Donald F. Smith.
Robert Stewart Smith, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been named acting dean of the school. The appointment was effective Jan. 16.
One of the most bizarre and baffling cat behaviors, fabric-eating, is the subject of a new study at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where nearby cats are sought for medical trials.
Strengthening its outreach commitment to the local and statewide economies, Cornell has consolidated the economic-development functions of four of its technology-access units into a new Cornell Office of Economic Development.
David Lelyveld, a historian of South Asia and Islam, has been named executive director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell.
Julia E. Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, will explore Plato's contribution to ethical thought, the different interpretations of his work from antiquity to the present and the enduring interest in his moral philosophy in this year's Townsend Lectures in Classics.
