Since beginning his five-year appointment as the new director of the Africana Studies and Research Center in July, Don C. Ohadike has worked to enhance the 30-year-old center's position academically as well as socially.
Do you want to give kids the gift of a green thumb? Learn how to teach children about gardening at a two-day educational symposium, "Education in Blossom: The School Garden - Community Partnership," July 31 to Aug. 1, at the State University of New York College at Cortland, hosted by the college and Cornell.
Six students and staff from the Cornell's Southeast Asia Program as well as the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble helped celebrate the Asian Elephant Extravaganza at the Syracuse zoo Aug. 21. (Aug. 24, 2010)
An extra beer or glass of wine during a workday lunch or happy hour may seem harmless. But a new Cornell University study shows that when alcohol consumption in and around the workplace increases, so does the risk of harassment of women by male co-workers. The study, "Harassing Under the Influence: Male Drinking Norms and Behaviors and the Gender Harassment of Female Coworkers," points to the dangers of workplace cultures that tolerate drinking and offers sobering lessons to both workers and employers. The R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations conducted the study, and the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse sponsored it. (March 24, 2004)
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) is holding a series of public meetings to present fare structure recommendations that are scheduled to go into effect by the end of this summer.
A Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) researcher at Cornell has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not only will allow researchers to study the effects of knocking out the function of single genes, one at a time, but also will create seeds for each mutation, or disrupted gene. The seeds will be made widely available to researchers.
The Land Grant Mission Review Task Force has sent recommendations to the Cornell University Board of Trustees, and implementation has begun on some action steps, said Francille Firebaugh, vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president.
Chaos. To engineers, it has meant that their systems were at risk, and they did their best to engineer chaos out of them. “It used to be a nuisance. Engineers would avoid it at all costs,” said Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell associate professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.
Normal-weight women who gain more than the 24 to 35 pounds during pregnancy recommended by the Institute of Medicine are 74 percent more likely to be unsuccessful at breast-feeding than mothers who observe these guidelines, according to a new study conducted by Cornell University/Bassett Hospital researchers.
The Institute for European Studies at Cornell, in partnership with Syracuse University's Center for European Studies, has received more than $500,000 in grant and fellowship funding from the U.S. Department of Education.