Cornell's Stephen Ceci receives APA's Bronfenbrenner award for his contributions to developmental psychology

Cornell Professor Stephen J. Ceci is the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. Established in 1996 to honor Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell.

Rebecca Quinn Morgan HE '60 to be honored at celebration of Human Ecology Centennial in New York City April 20

Rebecca Quinn Morgan HE '60, who with her husband has endowed the deanship of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, will be given the inaugural Martha Van Rensselaer Vision Award by the Human Ecology Alumni Association on April 20. The award ceremony is a key event at the national celebration of the Cornell University Human Ecology Centennial at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City.

Co-author of "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" will speak at Cornell and in the community, April 23

Dan Kindlon, 1981 Cornell Ph.D. and co-author of the best-selling book Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, will give a talk on the Cornell campus at noon Monday, April 23, in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

"We need to listen to our kids," says Cornell adolescence expert Garbarino on eve of Columbine anniversary

Vicious videos, a subculture of adolescent terrorism and myths about adolescence. These are a few of the factors that contributed to the tragic Columbine shootings on April 20 two years ago. On this anniversary, we have lessons to learn from those devastating shootings, says adolescent violence expert James Garbarino at Cornell.

Marital road to retirement is bumpy unless spouses make the transition together, study finds

The transition to retirement is particularly stressful, especially when one spouse retires before the other, says a new study by researchers at Cornell. During this time, couples fight much more and are significantly less satisfied with their marriages.

Carpets in schools don't compromise indoor air quality, says Cornell researcher

Carpets in schools can help the quality of indoor air by trapping contaminants and allergens, says a Cornell University indoor environmental expert.

For Hungary's Gypsies, minority self-governments boost community development, says Cornell rural sociology study

In post-socialist Eastern Europe, tension has been high between national and ethnic minorities. To avoid these kinds of strains, Hungary passed Act 77, a progressive Law on National and Ethnic Minorities in 1993.

New York City evaluation of Cornell parent-education HIV program shows awareness of AIDS can help prevention

A Cornell parent-education program has shown it can triple the likelihood that parents will discuss risk reduction and related information about HIV, the AIDS virus, with their children. The program also significantly increases the likelihood that the parents themselves will make personal risk behavior changes and obtain HIV testing.

Surgery to prevent strokes ends in death more often when performed by most experienced surgeons, Cornell study reports

A surgical procedure to prevent strokes, involving the removal of plaque from the carotid artery, has a greater chance of ending in the death of the patient when the surgery is performed by surgeons who have been in practice the longest, according to a new Cornell study.