The stuff your doctor used to write down on a file card now goes into the doctor's computer, and is probably shared with your HMO. The same sort of thing is happening with your school and employment records.
The effects of childhood family disruptions -- such as parental divorce, long-term separation from biological parents, parental abandonment and foster care -- can reverberate into later life, says a Cornell sociologist.
Harold A. Scheraga, one of the world's most eminent and widely published chemists and the George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell.
Charles S. ReVelle, a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, will present a seminar, 'The Design of Nature Reserves -- an Eco-Informatics Discipline in Development.'
America's major research universities have enjoyed a long period of unprecedented success, but they are facing a rapidly changing environment in which higher education is becoming deregulated and subject to ever-increasing scrutiny, writes Frank H.T. Rhodes in his new book.
Harold A. Scheraga, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell, will be honored by biomolecular researchers from around the world at a symposium on campus on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Cornell will build the central engine for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), an online resource that will make high-quality source materials in science available to students from kindergarten through college.
It's only fitting that ceremonies for the official dedication of the Sheila W. and Richard J. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts include elements of theater, film and dance performed by Cornell University students.
Helene R. Dillard has been named an associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. She will focus her attention on agricultural issues and on programs in the university's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.