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.
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.
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.
Whether or not she wins New York state's hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming November election, Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic campaign will be examined by scholars not only for its electoral outcome but for what her candidacy and commentary about her reveal about American culture and values.
It has become fairly commonplace for homeowners to test their houses for radon, the colorless, odorless and tasteless radioactive gas that seeps from the ground and can cause lung cancer. But schools, where a child can spend 14,000 hours by the time of high school graduation, often are overlooked, two Cornell University housing experts report.
As the College of Human Ecology at Cornell celebrates the centennial of the field of home economics with events throughout the year, its faculty and administration are reflecting on the college's role as the gateway for women into higher education and scientific careers over the past century.
Dual-earner couples might seem to have new-millennium marriages. But for the great majority, strategies to manage work and family demands turn out to be, in fact, a variant of the traditional breadwinner/homemaker gender division. Except, the new version includes two careers but only one on the front burner.
A rise in threats to close plants and move capital investments elsewhere is effectively keeping U.S. workers from organizing and from making real economic gains in a booming economy, a study by Cornell labor experts shows.
Psychotherapist Alyce Faye Cleese will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Family Life Development Center at Cornell on Oct. 13, noon-1 p.m. at the Faculty Commons, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
