The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan on April 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
More than 1,000 Cornellians will attend 'Big Red in the Big Apple,' Jan. 25-26 in New York City. The event will feature a panel of top faculty members, a reception and a day of volunteer service projects.
An exhibit of four boulders with oak trees growing out of them are on loan indefinitely from New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, pointed out the severe disparities of facing women in STEM careers in the Iscol public service lecture on campus Oct. 7.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues will unveil the design for Milstein Hall, an expansion of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Bailey…
How can communication between physicians and their elderly patients be improved? How can community service agencies better help families with depressed older relatives? How can psychotherapy and physical therapy be united to help older adults suffering simultaneously from back pain and depression? A new center at Cornell University will address these kinds of problems with innovative applied research projects. The Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA) is funded with $1.9 million from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), one of four Edward R. Roybal Centers funded nationwide this year. A collaboration of the fields of social science, clinical research and mental health, the institute embraces social scientists from Cornell's Ithaca campus, research clinicians in geriatric medicine at the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan, and researchers at the Psychiatric Division of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry in Westchester County, N.Y. (December 5, 2003)
The Institute for the Social Sciences has made small grants to advance interdisciplinary faculty research at the boundaries of social sciences, humanities and life sciences.
Anxiety, avoidance and a heightened response to stress can be transmitted from mother to child by multiple nongenetic mechanisms, a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine shows.