Visiting nurses have helped reduce child abuse and neglect by up to 80 percent over a 15-year period among a group of low-income, unmarried women visited during their pregnancies and the first two years of their babies' lives.
A dedication and formal ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the renovation of White Hall, one of Cornell University's three original buildings, will be held Friday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. on the university's Arts Quad in front of White Hall. The $12 million restoration project, completed in January 2003, was a top funding priority for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. White Hall's renovated space, redesigned to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching, is now home to the Departments of Government and of Near Eastern Studies. (September 4, 2003)
The Vagina Monologues , Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play that premiered in 1996 and addresses issues of violence against women, will be read at Cornell University on Valentine's Day.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in the old days -- say 1993 -- Cornell University agriculture students surfed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics System gopher site at the university's Albert R. Mann Library for the latest in crop and farm information. Well, that was then. Now, the USDA site has jumped onto the World Wide Web. It can be found at: . To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) about two years ago. These files included crop, livestock and agricultural economic statistics from the United States and other countries. Last year, the system was expanded to include reports from the ERS, NASS, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). These include weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts and estimates on crop production, dairy outlooks, wheat forecasts, and many others.
Students in Marcia Eames-Sheavly's Art of Horticulture class created a 10-ton earth-and-sod sculpture Sept. 4 at Cornell's turfgrass plots. (Sept. 10, 2007)
Astronomy professor Donald Campbell will succeed Robert Brown as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, the Cornell center that manages NSF's Arecibo Observatory, effective June 1. (May 1, 2008)
It's the luminescent bovine event of the holiday season. Those clopping sounds emanating from the Cornell Dairy Bar rooftop belong not to reindeer but to Cornell University cows.
A quiet revolution has been taking place in the College of Engineering, and it has wrought significant change in the most fundamental fabric of the college -- the way undergraduate students learn.
Bruce S. Raynor, secretary-treasurer of UNITE, the pre-eminent textile and apparel union in North America, is the recipient of the 1999 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
The most effective way to curtail the worsening obesity epidemic is to prevent weight gain with small behavioral changes before people become overweight or obese, said James O. Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, speaking at Cornell, June 6. Addressing obesity and energy balance at Cornell's conference, "Ecology of Obesity: Linking Science and Action," Hill stressed that dieting doesn't work: Most people regain lost weight because once a person is overweight, it's more difficult to keep off lost weight. Instead, prevent weight gain in the first place. All it would take, he said, is an additional 2,000 steps -- walking about a mile or 15 minutes -- and 100 fewer calories a day.