For many urban Americans -- especially nonwhites and New Yorkers -- home sweet home is structurally inadequate and overcrowded, according to a new Cornell study. Although American housing quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, nonwhites were three times more likely to live in structurally inadequate housing than whites in seven representative metropolitan areas studied.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the university's Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D., has been appointed Cornell's Provost for Medical Affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Medical College in New York City, President Hunter Rawlings announced today.
Dr. Maria I. New, the Harold and Percy Uris Professor of Pediatric University Medical College, and pediatrician-in-chief at The New York Hospital, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
