Witness, a Grammy-nominated singing quartet, will headline the 21st Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell, Feb. 21 to 23. The festival is the centerpiece of the university's Black History Month celebration.
Children who benefit from child support payments seem to fare better than those who obtain the same amount of money from welfare, according to a Cornell study. And when child support stems from an agreement between parents rather than a court-ordered one, the children do even better.
Potential presidential candidates in the year 2000 may want to adopt a cat, suggests one educator who has made an informal study of America's 'first pets.'
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Potential presidential candidates in the year 2000 may want to adopt a cat, suggests one educator who has made an informal study of America's "first pets." "Cat owners will probably find better success at the polls than dog owners, just as President Clinton defeated George Bush and Senator Dole, both of whom are dog owners," said Franklin M. Loew, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.
The English mastiff dog, a breed that sometimes carries the gene defect for the canine eye disease progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), has been revealed as a key animal model to help explain retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in humans.
Barely measurable amounts of energy, released as body heat, could be the difference between holding the waistline or adding 10 pounds a year, say Cornell researchers who turned couch-potato rats into exercising athletes.
Researchers have long suspected that the chemistry of the brain largely influences personality and emotions. Now, a Cornell University clinical psychologist has shown for the first time how the neurotransmitter dopamine affects one type of happiness, a personality trait and short-term, working memory.
In 1917 three young men graduated from Indiana University with the word "Colored" emblazoned across their academic transcripts. One of them, Elbert Frank Cox, would go on to enter Cornell and become the first black man in history to receive a doctorate in pure mathematics. (Feb. 28, 2002)
Ten artists and intellectuals with personal and professional ties to Algeria will visit Cornell next week for a conference on the political and cultural issues facing this violence-racked nation in northern Africa.