Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. (Oct. 9, 2009)
Cornell's DSpace, an online digital archive administered by Cornell University Library to make university scholarship freely available, is offering new options for the university's scientists and scholars with the creation of "communities" for every department on campus. Faculty are invited to a half-day workshop to learn how the DSpace repositories will work and to discuss possible uses, May 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Philip Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in more than 36 years, discussed diplomacy and U.S.-Libyan relations with about 100 students and faculty members in the Plant Sciences Building Oct. 7. (Oct. 8, 2009)
How Cornell's historic land-grant mission is still viable today in helping an increasingly globalized community was discussed by Vice Provost Ronald Seeber and Professor Max Pfeffer, at an Oct. 19 trustees meeting. (Oct. 22, 2007)
James E. Turner, the founding director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, was reappointed to the post for a five-year term by the provost, effective July 1. A professor of Africana Studies whose first stint as director lasted 17 years, Turner is a political sociologist specializing in African-American social movements and is a leading expert on Malcolm X.
Novelist Junot Dâaz, M.F.A. '95, and Cornell faculty members considered the growing Latino community and the readiness of the arts to address immigration at a panel discussion Feb. 19. (Feb. 25, 2009)
Cornell University Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner, among the world's best-known psychologists, has been publishing articles and books for 60 years on what really matters in the development of human beings. Now he has pulled his ideas together and published a new book that traces the historical development of his groundbreaking bioecological model of human development and detailing how it can be applied via programs and policies. Making Human Beings Human: Bioecological Perspectives on Human Development (Sage Publications, 2004) is Bronfenbrenner's culminating work and statement that he hopes will shape the future of his field. Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Psychology at Cornell, is a co-founder of the federal Head Start program and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, child-rearing and human ecology -- the interdisciplinary domain he created. (September 24, 2004)
Kathy Luz Herrera was one of the first women to enter the apprenticeship program in 1988 and says it has been 'a great avenue for women and minorities to enter the skilled trades.' (Oct. 18, 2007)
Cornell researchers have identified several key mechanisms in 13-year-olds that explain why impoverished children have more diseases and die younger in adulthood than more affluent children. (Oct. 16, 2007)