A new study identifies the types of thinking among jurors that may predispose them to reasoning rationally or emotionally, which can have a dramatic effect on sentencing. (May 11, 2010)
Cornell researchers spoke at a symposium on governance in Africa and its relation to development goals at the United Nations building in New York on May 21. (May 30, 2008)
Lisa Staiano-Coico, executive director of the Tri-Institutional Research Program (TIRP) and vice provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, has been selected as dean of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. Since 2003, Staiano-Coico's work as executive director of the New York-based TIRP has put her at the helm of an alliance encompassing New York City's Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as Cornell's main campus in Ithaca. Established in 2000 with a $160 million gift, TIRP's collaborative research is focused in three areas -- chemical biology, computational biology, and cancer and developmental biology -- with tri-institutional graduate training programs offered in chemical biology, computational biology and medicine. (May 06, 2004)
The CEO of the Olayan Financing Co. delivered Entrepreneurship@Cornell's Celebration weekend's keynote address April 15 in Bailey Hall. (April 21, 2010)
President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania laid out his vision for meaningful progress in health care in Tanzania in a Global Health Grand Rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College April 16. (April 20, 2010)
Forty-seven students minoring in Cornell's new Global Health Program spent the summer in various low-resource countries doing volunteer work and research as part of the requirements for their minor. (Sept. 11, 2009)
Retirees volunteering on environmental projects could not only prompt you to get more exercise but also improve mental and physical health through old age, according to a new Cornell study. (April 15, 2010)
Focus more on care and less on disease treatment in the elderly to cut health care costs, said Robert Martensen, National Institutes of Health, in the Sick in America keynote address, April 12. (April 14, 2010)