Experts affiliated with a new institute at Cornell University will closely examine a radically evolving social institution -- the modern family, with a special focus on marriage and fatherhood. The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS), established earlier this year at Cornell, has chosen "The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts and the Life Course of Children" as its first interdisciplinary theme for the period 2004-07. Some of the questions that will be studied include: How do race, ethnicity and social class influence marriage and fatherhood? How has the meaning of marriage and sexual partnerships changed over the past 30 years, and how do these changes affect children? What factors influence the timing of fatherhood? What determines responsible fathering? How do the behaviors of non-human animals inform issues regarding marriage and fatherhood? (June 30, 2004)
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m.
Cornell University is announcing its eighth annual Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) program for new Cornell students. POST, a program of the Cornell Public Service Center, provides a group of first-year and transfer students with a head start on making friends, an introduction to community service work and a familiarity with the Ithaca community before the start of the school year. Beginning Aug. 17 and ending the morning of Aug. 22, 75 incoming students, aided by 14 upperclass team leaders, will spend their days and nights exploring the Ithaca community through service work and recreational programming. The students come from 21 states, Puerto Rico and Singapore. (August 12, 2003)
The Feline Club at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine will hold its annual Feline Follies Saturday, April 23, 2005, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the atrium of the veterinary college.
Takuma Itoh, Christopher Stark and Eric Nathan, Ph.D. students in the field of composition, have been selected to receive American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers young composer awards. (Aug. 24, 2011)
Stewart J. Schwab, professor of law at Cornell Law School and a specialist in labor and employment law, and tort and contract law, has been named the new dean of the Law School, Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced today (Dec. 5). "Stewart Schwab is a nationally recognized scholar who has the respect and admiration of his colleagues on the Cornell faculty," said Lehman. "I am confident that, with his strong leadership, the Law School will make ever greater contributions to our understanding of the law and legal institutions and will continue to prepare our students for lives of accomplished service within a rapidly changing profession." (December 05, 2003)
Renowned foreign policy historian Walter LaFeber explained why he didn't think this ever was 'an American century,' in a talk in Keeton House, Nov. 11. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Bruce Lewenstein, associate professor of science communication at Cornell University, has been named director of what has been known since 1988 as the New York State Pew Program in Undergraduate Science Education.
NEW YORK -- Give actors just four minutes, and they will give you comedy, drama, even a song.
That is what 50 actors did Friday through Sunday, March 10-12, for Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance faculty in the…
James E. Hansen, called the father of climate change science, will deliver the 2010 Jill and Kenneth Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture Monday, April 19.