For many urban Americans -- especially nonwhites and New Yorkers -- home sweet home is structurally inadequate and overcrowded, according to a new Cornell study. Although American housing quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, nonwhites were three times more likely to live in structurally inadequate housing than whites in seven representative metropolitan areas studied.
Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, a central figure in Botswana's remarkable transformation and its former president, spoke at Cornell on Oct. 31 about the development of sustainable leadership in Africa as part of the Institute for African Development's Special Speaker Series. (November 03, 2005)
Nathan Fawcett, who has served as Cornell director of statutory college affairs for the past 10 years, has been promoted to associate vice provost for statutory college affairs.
The discussions about race, ethnicity, religion and sexuality are tough, really tough for the students in the College of Human Ecology's Urban Semester program. Small wonder.
Consider that the undergraduates in Urban Semester are…
Globalization brings new disease threats to animals and humans, Corrie Brown, professor of veterinary pathology at the University of Georgia, said at the 2008 Smith-Kilborne Foreign Animal Disease Program at Cornell May 28.
Cornell biophysicists have gleaned new insights into brain cell metabolism that will allow neurologists to better interpret data from such diagnostic tests as positron emission tomography (PET) scans and a specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test.
The Appel Institute for Alzheimer's Research at Weill Cornell Medical College will seek to better understand the debilitating disease, develop treatments and eventually find a cure.