A Cornell parent-education program has shown it can triple the likelihood that parents will discuss risk reduction and related information about HIV, the AIDS virus, with their children. The program also significantly increases the likelihood that the parents themselves will make personal risk behavior changes and obtain HIV testing.
Community development professionals, government officials and citizens who want to improve the economic vitality of New York's municipalities are invited to a conference, "Social Trends and Outlook 2001: Building Economically Healthy Communities in New York State," June 4-6.
Various Cornellians reaped prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, June 11-14, including a student team who took first prize for developing cassava cookies for poor countries.
Buckle up, Cornellians. During the week of Sept. 7 - 16, law enforcement agencies throughout the state, including the Cornell Police, will be participating in the "Buckle Up New York" campaign coordinated by the New York State Police.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research hosted a Flash Science! speaking competition to give early-career plant scientists experience talking to a general audience May 5.
Nima Arkani-Hamed of Princeton University, in delivering one of his Messenger lectures Oct. 5, said that physics today 'leaves every question about the everyday world completely answered.' (Oct. 8, 2010)
Five Cornell scientists and other experts reached an agreement on research priorities to help America's wind turbine industry produce alternative energy while also providing safe passage for birds and bats.
Beth and Stephan Loewentheil, J.D. ’75, have donated a rare Civil War-era photograph album compiled for the Comte de Paris. It becomes Cornell University Library's 8 millionth volume.