Cornell’s Adult University, “a learning vacation” for the family, combines academics with the fun of a summer trip to Ithaca and Summer College brings talented high school students to campus.
Pool tuition and create a fund for universitywide priorities, recommends a task force on the budget model, part of the Reimagining Cornell strategic planning process.
The eighth Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium will be held on the Cornell University campus, Nov. 7-9. The charter meeting of the Dairy Sheep Association of North (DSANA) will be held concurrently. As demand for sheep milk and cheeses increases, dairy sheep breeds are becoming better established in North America and are improving rural economies. "The Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium is the unique annual event for transmitting information among dairy-sheep farmers and sheep-cheese makers," says Michael Thonney, Cornell professor of animal science. "Because there are many other avenues to learn about general sheep management, we're keeping the focus on information about sheep dairying." (August 5, 2002)
Sharon Tennyson, associate professor of policy analysis and management and an expert on consumer protections and financial regulation, will become editor of the Journal of Consumer Affairs June 1. (April 5, 2011)
New York, NY (May 17, 2004) -- U.S. blacks with high blood pressure are about twice as likely to have an enlarged heart and a thicker heart muscle wall than their white counterparts independently of the degree of hypertension, report NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.Many studies have found that left ventricular hypertrophy -- increased muscle weight of the heart's main pumping chamber -- is an independent predictor of illness or death due to cardiovascular disease, including stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. And it is known that African-Americans with high blood pressure are 50% more likely to die of stroke and 80% more likely to die of heart disease than whites.
New York, NY (August 2001) -- Jay Edelberg, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular researcher and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named a 2001-2004 Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Alliance for Aging Research. The prestigious honor includes an award of $450,000 to support his research into finding new approaches to reverse vascular changes in the aging heart.
Rebecca Sparrow, director of career services for the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named director of Cornell Career Services, Edna Dugan, assistant vice president for student and academic services, announced/
Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, has been named to lead a newly established program to integrate the life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.