When African women work outside the home, their families reap more income but often with potentially "deleterious consequences on the health of their very young children," according to new Cornell research.
Extending university expertise in toxicology and risk-assessment to decision-makers, corporations and the general public as well as developing undergraduate-level education programs in environmental toxicology are among the priorities for the new director of Cornell's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology.
Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Daniel R. Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets Inc. of Rochester with the 1997 Friend of Extension Award.
Nursing staff and family members of residents in nursing homes often distrust and misunderstand each other, feel powerless to improve communication and feel distressed by the situation, according to a Cornell study.
Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 4. This free open house will feature tours of the center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"Epoch magazine is the best-kept secret at Cornell," says the magazine's editor Michael Koch. "Some people are astonished to know that there's a major literary magazine being published on campus."
They go from bugs to drugs. Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins -- out of insect larvae.
NASA astronaut Daniel T. Barry, a 1975 engineering graduate of Cornell, will describe his experience aboard space shuttle flight STS-72 in a School of Electrical Engineering colloquium planned for Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall.
Even as American universities are recognized as the best in the world in conducting research and educating new generations of scientists and scholars, they are under attack as never before.
Franois Bujon de l'Estang, the French ambassador to the United States, will visit the Cornell campus Sept. 29 to give an address, visit with students, faculty and administrators and tour the campus.
An annual rite of fall at colleges and universities across the country is Homecoming, the autumn weekend that sends hundreds of alumni in school colors back to their alma maters to renew acquaintances, cheer on sports teams and see what college is really like these days.
