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.
Kids understand the smartest things even before they can say the words, according to a Cornell psycholinguist. Her studies of American and Chinese children provide new compelling evidence that human babies are born to grasp the complex rules of word order and sentence structure in any language.
When French justices at the Cour de cassation in Paris expressed a need to establish a library of American jurisprudence, CU Professor Claire Germain suggested donating duplicate copies from the Law School's collection. (July 17, 2007)
What would Cornell Reunion Weekend be without video portraits of the lives of graduates from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) by videographers Phil and Maddy Handler?
Asian-American/Asian students, especially males, are under unique pressures to meet high expectations of parents by succeeding in such traditional predetermined careers as medicine and engineering, said Dr. Henry Chung '84, assistant vice president for student health at New York University, speaking on campus April 13. (April 19, 2006)