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.
Exhibition of political Americana opens in Cornell's Kroch Library 'VOTE!' in time for 2000 election. The exhibition of campaign memorabilia from the Susan Havey Douglas Collection of Political Americana.
David I. Stewart, who has been at Cornell University for 21 years, including the past 15 as director of community relations, will retire from that position in mid-November.
Science-based information on the relationships between breast cancer and environmental risk factors -- including pesticides and diet – is offered at a Cornell University-based web site. In time for October's national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the web site from the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State has been expanded with several features.
Two Cornell faculty members are among this year's recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, the White House announced today (Tuesday, Oct. 24).
Cornell Police are still actively pursuing investigations into the sexual assault of an Asian female student that occurred Sept. 16, as well as two reports of harassment of Asian females that happened during the following week.
Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 26, for their joint annual meeting, which this year celebrates the 50th annual meeting of the council.
