Even with strict financial constraints, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica are tackling revitalization, Cornell researchers and city officials said at a recent regional development conference.
Well-meaning friends may post stuff you'd rather not have everybody see, because they're not aware of who might see it, and that could mar the image of yourself you want to present.
Professor of Government Suzanne Mettler had several culprits in mind when she wrote “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream."
A course developed by Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, connects her 15 students with nonprofit organizations on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, to work collaboratively on projects that address community needs.
The library has acquired more than 100 items from the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries; items include sashes and fabrics printed with presidential portraits and scarves that were souvenirs from World Fairs.
'Cyberasociality' (inability or unwillingness to relate to others via social media) is the new dyslexia, sociologists say: a kind of online motion sickness.
Soda taxes and beverage portion size restrictions were unpalatable to the 1,319 U.S. adults questioned in a 2012 survey as part of a study reported online March 10 in the journal Preventive Medicine.
The 2013 Dean’s Fellow in the history of home economics in the College of Human Ecology gave an account of Flemmie Kittrell’s life March 20. Kittrell was the first African-American woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition.
