Cornell is putting more than 1,500 volumes -- more than 600,000 pages -- in an online archive documenting the history of home economics, thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Good deeds do get noticed. For exemplary enthusiasm in volunteering throughout the community, the staff of Cornell University's Organizational Development Services (ODS) will receive the 2003 Community Service Award from the Cornell Business and Technology Park. The ODS group will receive a plaque July 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Pond Pavilion on Thornwood Drive. In addition to the plaque, $1,000 each will be donated in the department's honor to the Community Dispute Resolution Center and to the Women's Opportunity Center. The ODS is part of Cornell's Office of Human Resources. (July 14, 2003)
How have U.S. immigration actions changed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks? What do the changes mean for Americans, and what should be done next? A report issued this summer by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has the answers, although a few of its recommendations may irk some on both sides of the political spectrum, says co-author Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell University Law School. (July 14, 2003)
Fifty years after Watson and Crick described the structure of double helix DNA, Cornell biophysicists are discovering the roles of DNA-binding proteins in much the same way an impatient person frees a stuck zipper.
Former Wall Street equities researcher Lakshmi R. Bhojraj has been appointed director of operations of the Parker Center for Investment Research at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
New York, NY (July 9, 2003) -- A major educational conference in New York on July 10-13 -- the International Symposium on Triglycerides, Metabolic Disorders, and Cardiovascular Disease -- will show that it may not be enough simply to reduce LDL cholesterol (or "bad cholesterol") in the effort to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Each year, CHD kills more men and women in the United States than the next seven causes of death combined. But about half of the heart attacks each year strike people with low to normal cholesterol. Thus, factors other than high cholesterol must also contribute to CHD risk. The conference will elucidate a particular group of risk factors that have come to be known as the "metabolic syndrome." Dr. Antonio J. Gotto, Jr., M.D., the Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and one of the world's foremost experts on cardiovascular disease, will open the conference and participate in satellite symposia.The metabolic syndrome represents a constellation of risk factors for coronary heart disease, comprising abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol (the "good cholesterol"), elevated blood pressure, and elevated glucose levels, among other factors. It is vitally important, as it increases a person's risk for developing CHD (e.g., a heart attack) and can also lead to diabetes. Persons with Type 2 diabetes have a twofold to fourfold greater risk for CHD. The increasing prevalence of obesity in Western societies, including the United States, has led to a growth in the number of people with the metabolic syndrome.
Tom Frantzen, an organic farmer from Alta Vista, Iowa, will provide the keynote address on how to grow organic forage crops, at the second annual New York Organic Crops and Soils Field Day, Aug. 12, at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.
A Cornell University group with a national roster of mediators skilled in dispute resolution will help the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) resolve any workplace disputes that might arise within its own agency. The EEOC is the federal agency governing equal opportunity in employment throughout the United States. As part of the new working relationship, the Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution at Cornell will open to the EEOC its nationwide roster of expert mediators, all of whom received alliance training and are experienced in workplace discrimination and related employment issues. (July 9, 2003)
The Cornell University Public Service Center currently is recruiting AmeriCorps*VISTA members to serve in the Ithaca community. AmeriCorps is a federally funded network of national service programs that engage 50,000 Americans each year. VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America and is often referred to as the "domestic Peace Corps." Since the early 1960s, the VISTA program has embedded volunteers for one-year terms within low-income communities to help address critical issues related to poverty. In 1993, VISTA formally joined the AmeriCorps network, and today nearly 6,000 AmeriCorps*VISTA members serve in hundreds of nonprofit organizations and public agencies throughout the United States -- working to fight illiteracy, improve health services, create businesses, increase housing opportunities or help bridge the digital divide. (July 9, 2003)
Joseph A. Burns, the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and professor of astronomy at Cornell University, has been named as the university's vice provost for physical sciences and engineering. Burns' role is to facilitate Cornell's research in the areas of physical science and engineering, especially at federally funded centers, and to advise on the university's research policies and priorities in those areas. In the appointment, which became effective July 1, Burns replaces John Silcox, who retains his post as the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering, Applied and Engineering Physics. (July 8, 2003)
Not looks or money but rather life-long fidelity is what most people seek in an ideal mate, according to a Cornell behavioral study that also confirmed the "likes-attract" theory: We tend to look for the same characteristics in others that we see in ourselves.
The humane slaughter of agricultural animals has been improved in recent years due to consumer demands on fast-food chains and supermarkets, says Joe Regenstein, Cornell University professor of food science. Regenstein will discuss how these changes could affect the future of halal practices, the Islamic food laws, as part of his keynote address to the Fifth International Halal Food Conference, July 11, at the Palmer House in Chicago. (July 7, 2003)
