The Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China has made grants to Cornell faculty members and graduate students to support collaborative research projects.
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)
Renowned scholar Claudia Goldin ‘ 67 will address gender equality in the labor market in a Sesquicentennial talk, "A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter," Oct. 23.
International Criminal Court President Sang-Hyun Song spoke on campus Oct. 9 on the need to make genocide, use of child soldiers, and human rights violations unacceptable.
Cornell’s president-elect, Elizabeth Garrett, spoke to the Chronicle Oct. 7 and answered questions on topics from engaged learning and the challenges facing higher education to what’s on her Kindle.
Daniel Lichter finds racial segregation in the U.S. takes new forms as segregation from neighborhood to neighborhood decreases but suburban communities are becoming increasingly racially homogenous.
Three faculty members - development economist Chris Barrett, mechanical engineer Sidney Leibovich and medical mycologist Dr. Thomas Walsh - have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cheers of encouragement, heartfelt love and exuberance punctuated each award presented at the annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ Honors ceremony May 4, at the Statler Hotel ballroom.
Low building quality negatively affects student achievement, and this is exacerbated by high student mobility; both conditions are more often found in low-income districts, reports a Cornell study. (Dec. 1, 2010)