Cornell administrators gave Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for New York state comptroller, an overview of the university when he visited campus July 13. (July 21, 2010)
Children, rather than adults, make better witnesses of negative emotional events because of how their memory works, according to a new study. (July 20, 2010)
Cornell President David Skorton urged the 700 health economists at the American Society of Health Economists conference on campus June 20-23 to promote health care reform. (June 24, 2010)
Four new A.D. White Professors-at-Large have been appointed: autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen, poet Anne Carson, political scientist James C. Scott and economic historian Robert Skidelsky. (June 21, 2010)
Cornell will host more than 700 health economists June 21-June 23 for the Third Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, themed 'Health, Healthcare and Behavior.' (June 18, 2010)
The economic status of children of single mothers who have gone off welfare and found jobs has improved slightly, but many poor families are worse off since the 1996 welfare reform, reports a study. (June 8, 2010)
Young adults self mutilate to cope with emotional pain, independent of other mental illness, finds Janis Whitlock, who urges doctors and nurses to routinely screen for evidence of such behaviors. (June 8, 2010)
