ITHACA, N.Y. --- This month, Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large Roger Short, Haris Silajdzic and Jane Goodall will deliver public lectures on subjects ranging from human sexuality to international peacekeeping to saving the planet. Short is an eminent reproductive biologist making his first visit to Cornell as a professor-at-large; Silajdzic, a former prime minister of Bosnia, is making his final professor-at-large visit, as is Goodall, who is one of world's most widely recognized and distinguished primatologists. (April 5, 2002)
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by writer Diane Ackerman and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang," writes Ackerman in her introduction.
For the first time, Cornell Hillel, which recently was renamed the Yudowitz Center for Jewish Campus Life-Cornell Hillel, has a full-time, professional executive director, Vally Naomi Kovary.
Sixteen years of hard work and setbacks have taught Professor Emeritus Richard B. Fischer what it takes to make the bluebird of happiness happy: Location, location, location. And a few amenities.
A gold mine of information collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census but previously inaccessible to researchers could be used to tackle a range of social issues, according to John M. Abowd, professor of labor economics in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
An NTI Fellows Workshop hosted by Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) scheduled for Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to air travel problems encountered by the workshop facilitator, Catherine Bradshaw Boon.
Physicians who prescribe the regular use of beta-agonist drugs for asthma could be endangering their patients, two new studies by researchers at Cornell and Stanford universities find. One study compiles previously published clinical trials to conclude that patients could both develop a tolerance for beta-agonists and be at increased risk for asthma attacks, compared with those who do not use the drug at all. The second study shows that beta-agonist use increases cardiac risks, such as heart attacks, by more than two-fold, compared with the use of a placebo. Furthermore, the researchers say that their analyses lead them to suspect a conflict of interest among scientists who are supported by pharmaceutical companies that make beta-agonists, among the world's most widely used drugs. This conflict, they say, could be putting 16 million U.S. asthma sufferers in harm's way. Their statement comes as the American Medical Association is voicing its concerns that drug industry sponsorship of clinical tests is affecting the quality of research. (June 17, 2004)
'The Humboldt Current,' written by Cornell history professor Aaron Sachs, is an intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science, particularly American environmentalism.