The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has developed a special program designed to repay up to $25,000 of student loan debt as a way of helping its MBA graduates pursue entrepreneurial ventures straight out of school.
Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents. Rather, upon closer look, these scores point to a growing convergence, report two Cornell University developmental psychologists who are experts in intelligence assessment and types of intelligence. In comprehensive analyses of national data sets of mental test scores (including tests containing verbal analogies, vocabulary, mathematics, science, writing and spatial reasoning) for American students, Wendy M. Williams and Stephen J. Ceci, both in the Department of Human Development at Cornell, write in the November 1997 issue of the scholarly journal American Psychologist that "there is no compelling evidence supporting the hypothesis that a dysgenic (negative) trend is at work, undermining Americans' intellectual capital." Williams is an associate professor of human development, and Ceci is the Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, both in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
Composer and Cornell alumnus Steve Reich and senior Maria Dizzia have been selected as the first recipients of two new university awards to recognize excellence in the arts. The Cornell University Alumni Award for Distinction in the Arts will be formally presented to Reich in February 1998 at a campus program. Dizzia will receive the Student Arts Award.
A new manual, co-authored by Cornell social gerontologist Karl Pillemer, focuses on how to help nurse supervisors in long-term care facilities improve their leadership and supervisory skills.
Attorneys Richard Burr and Mandy Welch, who six months ago pleaded for Timothy McVeigh's life in the death penalty phase of the Oklahoma City bombing trial, will speak at the Cornell University Law School Nov. 14. Their presentation, "Defending McVeigh's Life: A Conversation with Timothy McVeigh's Lawyers," will begin at 3 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Courtroom of Myron Taylor Hall.
Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will speak on "The Origins of Cancer" during the sixth annual Ef Racker Lectureship in Biology and Medicine, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, at Cornell University. The lecture is free and the public is invited. Varmus has been director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., since November of 1993.
A six-day safari for two in Kenya is among the items that will be up for bid in an auction Saturday, Nov. 15, sponsored by students in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration to benefit Ithaca-area charities and a Hotel School scholarship fund. The silent auction begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel, which will be followed by a live auction at 6 p.m.
Four Cornell professors are among the leading researchers who were invited to contribute to the recently published new edition of the four-volume set The Handbook of Child Psychology. The massive, 4,850-page, four-volume reference set, now in its fifth edition, is a comprehensive source book, encyclopedia and research review guide on the current state of knowledge in human development and developmental psychology.
