On Cornell Giving Day March 14, some 8,640 donors gave 12,209 gifts for a total of $6,321,962, surpassing each of Cornell’s two previous Giving Day totals. Gifts came from more than 45 countries.
Fredrick Blaisdell '16 and Steven Ingram '16 have received 2015 Udall scholarships, for students who show potential for careers in environmental public policy, health care and tribal public policy.
Ritch Savin-Williams, professor of developmental psychology and director of Cornell's Sex and Gender Lab, talked with media members about the dangerous myth of 'fragile' gay youth. (Nov. 10, 2010)
Viburnum leaf beetles are chewing susceptible bushes into skeletal remains in central, western and northern New York state. The beetles, which face few predators, now appear to be taking aim at western New England and parts of Pennsylvania, and they are poised to move into the Hudson Valley, the New York City metropolitan area and Long Island.
Despite long odds in the struggle to restore oyster reefs and boost the bivalves’ survival, marine restoration professionals may wish to add a tool: paleontological history.
New York, NY (April 24, 2003) Scientists at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center have found that an increase in global temperatures due to global warming may be a contributing factor in the decline of birth rates. A new study, which appears in the June issue of the Journal Medical Hypotheses, compared global air temperatures from 1900 to 1994, and the corresponding birth rates from nineteen industrialized nations, including the United States.Birth rate decline has been historically attributed to social, cultural, and economic changes, such as increases in the cost of living, postponement of marriage and child bearing, and the increased use of contraception and legalized abortions. This study, led by Dr. Harry Fisch, associate attending physician in the department of urology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and associate clinical professor of urology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, is the first to suggest that an environmental factor, specifically rising global temperatures, may also have contributed to the decline in human fertility.
A South Korean student worked with staff at the Schwartz Center to build set and shoot his film as an example of the cross-disciplinary collaboration that will be a model for the future. (Nov. 28, 2011)
Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, a member of AmeriCorps, urged students to become active citizens and 'social entrepreneurs' in his Iscol lecture Sept. 20.