The effects of childhood family disruptions -- such as parental divorce, long-term separation from biological parents, parental abandonment and foster care -- can reverberate into later life, says a Cornell sociologist.
Jonathan Kirshner, professor of government, talked about rebuilding the economy at a House Professor's Tea, Jan. 29, on West Campus. The teas give students venues to speak casually with professors. (Feb. 1, 2010)
John W. Sipple, an associate professor of education at Cornell, had been teaching the Social and Political Context of American Education (Education 271/571) for seven years and had a smattering of audio and video in his class…
Topics to be discussed at the School of Criticism and Theory, June 15 to July 24, will range from torture, disbelief, espionage, sovereignty and responsibility to modern jazz, experimental art, the lyric and bilingualism. (April 8, 2008)
CANCELED Sept. 20 Best-selling author Stephanie Coontz will give a public lecture, 'Courting Disaster? The Worldwide Revolution in Marriage,' Sept. 21.
Students are learning archaeological methods and getting their hands dirty at a former Seneca Indian village in Geneva, N.Y., as part of a summer session course in Iroquois archaeology. (June 22, 2007)
Janis Whitlock, Ph.D. ‘03, director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery, worked with eCornell to develop courses on nonsuicidal self-injury.
Cornell Tech awarded five student startup companies with $40,000 in pre-seed funding and one year of free co-working office space in its inaugural Startup Awards competition.