For the last few years, women have heard conflicting reports about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A new study that analyzes many trials together concludes that HRT can reduce heart attacks by about…
William Chen '09, a fine arts major in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, won the Department of Psychology's universitywide art competition by basing a work on his own thought process. (May 1, 2009)
Hip-hop pioneers return to Ithaca April 4-7 for the opening of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection’s first major exhibition and a community-wide celebration of 40 years of hip-hop culture.
A new study by three Cornell faculty members that is the first to compare death row demographics with murder statistics produced some findings that are just as likely to surprise both sides of the political spectrum as they are to confirm popularly held beliefs.
Ensuring that every child in Tompkins County gets a toy for the holidays is a year-round effort for the large group of volunteers who are the force behind Cops, Kids and Toys. (Dec. 15, 2008)
Dr. JoAnn Difede, a psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an expert in the treatment of trauma, is using virtual reality exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of the WTC attacks, as well as to treat a number of phobias in the general public.
An alumni panel of experts discussed the nation's legacy of debt and future of global recovery at a Cornell Wall Street event April 24 in Washington, D.C. (April 26, 2012)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new industry -- photonics -- is beginning to emerge as the successor to the imaging and optical products industries that supported the Rochester, N.Y., economy well into the 1980s. What's more, the emerging industry has the strength of being exceptionally diversified, suggesting it will be far more successful in the global economy than the more traditional industries that dominated the region from the 1930s through the 1980s, exemplified by Kodak, Xerox and Bausch and Lomb. So says a preliminary report from Susan Christopherson, Cornell University professor of city and regional planning, and her team of graduate student planners. Results of the team's one-year study of Rochester's photonics industry were presented at a conference in that city, Oct. 18, attended by more than 60 industry, civic, community and labor leaders and venture capitalists. (October 25, 2002)
The Cornell Women's Resource Center (WRC), a student organization, has a full-time, professional administrative director. Candace Rypisi (pronounced Re'pish), has taken the reins of the resource center.
Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.