Issa Shivji, director of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will speak Sept. 15 and 16.
Wayne Harbert, professor of linguistics and director of undergraduate studies for the department, translates Old English kennings about swords from firsthand experience with blacksmithing. (July 21, 2010)
As Buddy, the new First Pup in the White House, becomes more oval and Socks recoils in horror, Cornell veterinarians have some unsolicited advice for the Clintons: Avoid overfeeding and overexercising Buddy, and give the First Cat a "dog-free zone."
Horticulturists, authors and landscape designers - plus one ecologist, one mycologist and one literary critic - are in the lineup for the Fall '99 Cornell Plantations Seminar Series with 10 Wednesday evening lectures, starting Sept. 8 at Cornell.
Cornell today (Nov. 3, 1998) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for an exchange of agricultural, nutritional and environmental information, as well as community and rural development knowledge.
Things to Do include an Al Gore video conference, Reunion Weekend and an Abrahamic Dialogue on faith, shared heritage and common values. (May 28, 2009)
About 90 children, ages 6 through 9, attended the Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo, Jan. 26, in Duffield Hall. The event was intended to give the children an experience in engineering that was both fun and educational.
New York, NY (December 2, 2002) -- A widely available dietary supplement, coenzyme Q10, has shown promising results in a clinical trial involving 80 patients with early Parkinson's disease, according to a recent article in the "Archives of Neurology." In the trial--a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, and dosage-ranging trial--coenzyme Q10 was shown to be safe, well-tolerated, and significantly effective in slowing the progression of the neurological disorder. And it was clearly dose-dependent - that is, the larger the dose, the greater its effect."Our results are so encouraging that we have to emphasize that they still have to be confirmed by a Phase III clinical trial with a larger group of patients," said Dr. Flint Beal, Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and one of the authors of the article. He and his colleagues caution that the findings may not extend to patients with later stages of Parkinson's or to patients who are at risk but have not been diagnosed with the disorder. Furthermore, if too many people now buy coenzyme Q10 on their own, there may not be enough subjects for a rigorous Phase III trial.
Each year, the American Association of Retired Persons honors 50 employers in the United States for their practices and policies for mature workers with its 'AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50' list. Cornell is ranked No. 5.
Ph.D. marshal Haley Oliver earns her doctorate, despite overwhelming family crises this past year: her single-parent father was killed, and she had to oversee selling the family farm. (May 22, 2009)