Evaluating how suitable our homes are for growing old in should be just as routine as financial planning for retirement, says a Cornell housing expert. Adapting homes for age-related disabilities would not only help older people remain in their homes.
Awards for outstanding contributions to community service in Tompkins County were presented to the CBORD Group Inc. and the International Food Network Inc. on Sept. 17 at the annual 'Party by the Pond' reception held for tenants and friends of the Cornell Business & Technology Park (CBTP) in the village of Lansing.
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.
William L. Maxwell, Cornell University professor emeritus of operations research and industrial engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. It is one of the highest honors an engineer can receive.
AIDS has provoked an enormous outpouring of theoretical reflection on how to write about the illness. Yet, the number of authors writing about AIDS and the critics in search of the AIDS discourse are extremely scarce in European literature, says a German coming to Cornell.
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, Oct. 3.
A mere $10 investment to enroll in a Cornell Cooperative Extension financial education program reaped an average $5,000 gain in net worth for participants one year later, according to a Cornell University survey.
From helping farm families cope with financial and personal stress and teaching families parenting skills to helping urban communities concerned with violence, finding opportunities for older Americans to volunteer with youth in 4-H programs and working with policy makers as they struggle with welfare reform choices, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE).
A memorial service for James A. Perkins, who served as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969, will be held Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. in the chapel at Princeton University. Perkins died Aug. 19 at age 86 in Burlington, Vt.
Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Ralph L. Snodsmith, president of R.L. Snodsmith Ornamental Horticulturist Inc. and a radio and television personality, with the 1998 Friend of Cornell Cooperative Extension Award at a celebratory reception Monday, Oct. 5.