Joseph A. Kahl, an expert on social stratification and a professor of sociology at Cornell from 1969 until his retirement in 1983, died Jan. 1 in Bethesda, Md., at age 86.
A new study published in Science shows that animal behavior studies can predict human behavior and that those with a certain altered gene have a harder time recovering from very stressful events.
"Dating back to Asian spice trading routes around 200 B.C., globalization began long before the Internet," said Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell associate professor of history, at a Jan. 14 panel discussion at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Most graduates of arts programs in New York state will not find employment in the state. An ILR School report finds that training programs often fail to prepare students for actual jobs. (Jan. 18, 2010)
Chekitan S. Dev, associate professor of marketing and brand management, is one of the 'Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing' for 2009, according an industry association.
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)
Cornell has been ranked eighth in Web traffic and popularity among the top 200 college and university sites ranked by a higher education search engine. (Jan. 18, 2010)
Historian Eric Tagliacozzo was one of three panelists Jan. 14 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to discuss food as a driving force of economic development. (Jan. 18, 2010)
With the double attraction of men's and women's basketball against Columbia University Jan. 16, faculty, staff, retirees and their families enjoyed food, skating and bowling at the community dinner.
Five Cornell students and staff members who were in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, working at the Weill Cornell-affiliated GHESKIO clinic during the Jan. 12 earthquake, were safe as of Jan. 14.
