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Ben Brantley, Elinor Fuchs and Todd London win the George Jean Nathan Award, administered by Cornell's English department

The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1996-7 season has been awarded to Ben Brantley, chief drama critic of The New York Times.

New book looks at abusive families, explores causes and suggests interventions to protect children

With more than 3 million American children reported abused or neglected each year and three children dying from such maltreatment each day.

Cornell helps prevent family violence worldwide in the armed forces

Members of the U.S. military need to be tough and aggressive in defense of the country but not when it comes to spouses and children.

Those advertisements touting milk are working well, according to a Cornell agricultural economist

Got milk? Apparently, you do. A Cornell study to be published in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (December 1997).

New book by Cornell historian Michael Kammen is a collection of essays on the varieties of historical experience

In the introduction to his new book, In the Past Lane, Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, tells the story of a chair.

Three Cornell students win prestigious Marshall scholarships for 1997-98

For the second year in a row, three students from Cornell University are among a select few Americans who have been chosen for the British Marshall Scholarship.

Vaccination of their mothers may eliminate the need for vaccination of lambs against enterotoxemia type D, Cornell animal scientists report

Young lambs may not need inoculation against enterotoxemia type D -- otherwise known as "overeating disease" -- until past the age of 6 weeks, according to Cornell animal scientists.

Body in gorge is identified as Cornell graduate student

Ithaca Police have identified the body of a person found in Cascadilla gorge Dec. 2 as Robert Battig, 29, a Cornell graduate student in mathematics.

Water restrictions have been lifted for all of Cornell

Cornell officials released this update on drinking water today (Dec. 5) at 8:15 a.m.: The entire campus has been switched to alternate water sources, the city of Ithaca and Bolton Point plants.

Cornell University web site examines legal battle over Steven Spielberg's movie 'Amistad'

The legal battle that threatens to keep Steven Spielberg's slavery film, Amistad, from opening next week moves to the Internet. The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell has devoted a world wide web site to the case.

Pathfinder photographs provide geological support for the important role that liquid water has played on Mars, scientists report today

ITHACA, N.Y. -- After studying more than 9,500 images taken during the acclaimed Mars Pathfinder mission, scientists report in today's journal Science (Dec. 5) that surface photographs provide strong geological and geochemical evidence that fluid water was once present on the red planet. "We now have geological evidence from the Martian surface supporting theories based on previous pictures of Mars from orbit that water played an important part in Martian geological history," said James F. Bell, Cornell senior research associate in astronomy and a member of the Mars Pathfinder imaging team.

Nature's yearly gift to humanity: $2.9 trillion in economic and environmental benefits of biodiversity, Cornell biologists estimate

If the planet's biota -- all the plants and animals and microorganisms -- sent a bill for their 1997 services, the total would be $2.9 trillion, according to an analysis by biologists at Cornell.