Civic, business and education leaders from the Greek island of Cephalonia met with the Cornell Institute for European Studies delegation during the group's official tour of Ithaca's sister city, Elios Proni.
Anthony Ong, Cornell assistant professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, has been awarded the 2008 Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging. (June 3, 2008)
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.
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).
TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson said the finance industry is policing itself and called for better personal finance education at the Johnson's Durland Lecture Oct. 17.
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.
Forget the flat-topped, rheumy-eyed giant with the zombie shuffle and the rigor-mortis grin. That's kid stuff. This is the real thing: Frankenstein, the book, written by an 18-year-old Englishwoman named Mary Shelley. And Cornell and the entire Ithaca community are in on it. More than 3,500 new students at Cornell, as well as many faculty, staff and continuing students.