Climate change could force 100 million people to lose their homes; entire countries will be underwater, according to the documentary 'Climate Refugees' and an Oct. 14 panel discussion. (Oct. 18, 2010)
ILR professor Ron Ehrenberg helped establish two endowments for students with health or disability problems, after his son Eric died from complications of a brain tumor in August. (Dec. 2, 2008)
With above-average warmth throughout the Northeast, several cities in the region face top-10 warm Decembers, according to Cornell's Northeast Regional Center.
Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Duke University will deliver a University Lecture at Cornell titled "Sewing Up the Mind: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology," Monday, Sept. 27, at 4:30 p.m.
Cornell Researchers have received three grants to reduce apple tree losses and enhance production efficiency among growers. Researchers hope to make future crops even more valuable by reducing tree and fruit losses and enhancing production efficiency.
Cornell Law School and the U.S. Government Printing Office have joined forces to make the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations available online in a user-friendly, centrally located format. (March 15, 2010)
Ruth Chinitz Uris, a Presidential Councillor and longtime benefactor of Cornell, died March 19 at her home in New York City. Through her husband, the late philanthropist and builder Harold D. Uris (Cornell Class of 1925), Ruth Uris became an active and generous supporter of Cornell and its Medical College.
Stephen F. Hamilton, professor of human development and co-director of Cornell University's Family Life Development Center, has been named associate provost for outreach, Provost Biddy Martin announced Nov. 5. Hamilton was appointed to a three-year term beginning Nov. 1. The new part-time position of associate provost for outreach was recommended by the university's Land Grant Mission Review Task Force last spring, a year after five panels began reviewing Cornell's land-grant mission. The part-time position will allow Hamilton to continue his other academic responsibilities. (November 11, 2003)
To prepare scholars who will contribute original research in human development and the law, and psychology and the law, Cornell will offer a new graduate concentration called Law, Psychology and Human Development, beginning next fall.