Among U.S. teens who are frequent smokers, nearly half of girls and one-third of boys smoke to control their weight, according to a new study. Even more common is smoking to lose weight among teens who feel "much too fat."
Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts and inaugural recipient of Cornell's Engaged Scholar Prize will deliver 'Human Again: Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Redemption' Oct. 28.
The Department of Science and Technology Studies celebrates 40 years since the first meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science on campus with “Where has STS Traveled?” Oct. 27-28.
At the New Rural-Urban Interface held Sept. 29-30, social scientists from Cornell and elsewhere gathered to discuss the cultural, demographic, economic and political dimensions of the changing landscape.
Nobel laureate Dr. Michael Brown, whose research paved the way for the development of statins, will explain how these drugs work in the Ef Racker Lecture in Biology and Medicine Thursday, Oct. 20.
Saul Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics, will explore what gravitational waves mean for science in the fall 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Faculty Invitational Lecture.
This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
Cornell will host 40 writing program administrators and faculty Oct. 7-8 for the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium, to discuss programmatic issues, their evolving roles on campus and trends in the field.
