In light of the economic crisis, Mary Zielinski, assistant director and manager of retirement programs in Cornell's Benefit Services office, provides some answers to investment questions. (Oct. 9, 2008)
Introduction by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Kord. -- 2 p.m.: "The Psychoanalytic Construction of Creativity" by Donald Kuspit, A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kuspit, one of America's most distinguished art critics, is a winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983) given by the College Art Association. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner and is editor of Art Criticism. Kuspit, who has studied at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center, is author of Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (with Lynn Gamwell; Cornell University Press, 1996) and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996).
Pinkham Notch, N.H., the starting point for many skiing and hiking trails on Mount Washington, has the best chance for a white Christmas in the Northeast – an all-but-guaranteed 96 percent. According to senior climatologist Keith Eggleston.
Three student teams took home prizes April 16-17 in contests held during Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration conference, while another 10 teams presented their final pitches at eLab’s Demo Day.
For some years now, cancer researchers have known that cancerous tumors are fed by nutrients and oxygen through blood vessels generated by endothelial cells. Now the hope is to develop drugs to prevent the cells from forming the blood vessels, thus starving the tumors.
Twenty-three Mexican undergraduates joined research labs at Cornell this summer as part of President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, an effort to increase student exchanges with Latin America.
Children in residential care facilities are less likely to show aggression toward adult staff and other youth and are less likely to run away at facilities that de-emphasize behavior control and focus on success.
President Hunter R. Rawlings III on July 1 issued the following statement concerning the appointment of Dr. John W. Ryan as Interim Chancellor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
Despite the latest electronic, ergonomic and timesaving devices to aid housework, the most tiring household tasks are still scrubbing and mopping the floors, just as they were more than 60 years ago.