Martha Albertson Fineman, the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School, has been awarded a grant of $824,000 from an anonymous donor to sponsor a three-year exchange program for faculty and students interested in gender, sexuality and the family.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel for David Meng, 19, an undergraduate student at Cornell University, who died Dec. 10 in Ithaca. The Rev. Rick L. Bair, pastor of St. Luke Lutheran Church and minister in Cornell United Religious Work, will preside.
Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are facing the worst staffing crisis ever, resulting in patient deaths, injuries, careless errors and risk of abuse, says Cornell University gerontologist Karl Pillemer.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $250,000 grant to Cornell University to boost the marketing infrastructure for lambs and goats in the Northeast. The initial project, which runs to July 2002.
Low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of stress and lower task motivation, according to a new study by a Cornell University environmental psychologist. And, surprisingly, experienced workers in these mildly noisy offices make fewer ergonomic adjustments to their workstations than do workers in quiet offices.
It's becoming a tradition for Douglas Stayman: The Cornell University marketing expert and his students will play Monday morning quarterback, of the commercial sort, following Super Bowl XXXV.
Scheduled this year for Feb. 16-19, the 4th annual Great Backyard Bird Count asks volunteers to log on to the BirdSource web site at and tell scientists where the birds are.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2001 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 25 through 27.
Cornell has received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and related social sciences. The grant, for use over approximately five years, will help fuel ongoing academic initiatives in the humanities at Cornell.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has unveiled a web site devoted to rare, historically significant books on agriculture. Not merely citations, the books can be read in full online.
Women who gain more than the amount recommended during pregnancy are four times more likely to be obese one year after giving birth compared with mothers who gain within the recommended range, says a Cornell University nutritionist.
Two prominent physicists, Cornell University alumni Helen T. Edwards and her husband, Donald A. Edwards, have endowed a chair in accelerator physics at Cornell.
