Persons seeking to recover damages from people or corporations who injure them will soon be out of luck -- and money, a law professor from Cornell will warn a conference of bankruptcy judges and lawyers in San Diego on Friday (Oct. 18).
Although self-help organizations have long suspected that "it takes one to help one" might be true, new Cornell University research shows that social contact with people who have been through the same life change crisis are, by far, the most helpful.
The Honorable George J. Mitchell, former Senate majority leader and a special adviser to President Bill Clinton in Ireland, will be the 1996 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University Oct. 23 and 24.
The period of Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 was the wettest for the Northeast in 102 years of records, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Christian Jouhaud, the Luigi Einaudi Chair in Modern European and International Studies at Cornell University, will present the Einaudi Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus.
They could have called it "Applied Biology-Chemistry-Physiology-Ecology-Risk Analysis-Current Affairs." Instead, the faculty members who developed a first for Cornell -- and one of the few undergraduate courses at any American university to address the health and environmental effects of toxic substances -- settled for "Principles of Toxicology."
Kyle L. Grazier, associate professor of heath care finances and director of the Sloan Program at Cornell University, has been named a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell.
Executives from Toys "R" Us, Paine Webber, Garrick-Aug and Price Costco will discuss new directions in retail real estate at the 14th annual Cornell Real Estate Conference, Friday, Oct. 18, at Cornell. "
Researchers have long suspected that the chemistry of the brain largely influences personality and emotions. Now, a Cornell University clinical psychologist has shown for the first time how the neurotransmitter dopamine affects one type of happiness, a personality trait and short-term, working memory.
The time is near, Cornell waste-management researchers say, when patrons of environmentally friendly restaurants can take home two packages: the traditional doggie bag of leftovers for tomorrow's lunch box plus a sack of compost for the garden or window box.
Two Cornell physicists, Robert C. Richardson and David M. Lee, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1971 discovery of the superfluid helium-3, a breakthrough in low-temperature physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today. (Oct. 9, 1996).
Philip Meilman has been appointed director of psychological services at Cornell University's Gannett Health Center. Meilman joined the staff on Sept. 23, and he brings 19 years of experience devoted to college mental health.
