Despite Father's Day and Mother's Day, which give children an opportunity to pay tribute to their parents, it's important to acknowledge that parenting is rarely an entirely positive or negative experience, says a new book co-edited by a Cornell University gerontologist. The book makes its point by examining the ambivalence of parent-child relations in later life. "Parenting is fraught with mixed emotions, thoughts and attitudes. Such ambivalence is apparently universal and a fundamental characteristic of relationships between parents and adult children," says Karl Pillemer, professor of human development at Cornell and co-editor of Intergenerational Ambivalences: New Perspectives on Parent-Child Relations in Later Life (Elsevier Publishers, 2004). (June 16, 2004)
Billing and cooing in an old and familiar love nest doubles and even triples some birds' chances of producing progeny, researchers at Cornell University have discovered. Their study, which focused on Japanese quail.
Byron S.J. Weng, professor of government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell this fall.
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day.
Erlichman is founder and president of Sunlight Electric, a San Francisco company that designs and sells solar power systems to California businesses. (Aug. 12, 2008)
A look at how the Internet is changing the basic business paradigm, with a special focus on the hospitality industry, is the topic of a special panel discussion that is a key event in this year's Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC).
One universal principle – opposites attract – accounts for homosexuality as well as heterosexuality, according to a Cornell University psychologist who proposes a sweeping new theory of how sexual orientation develops.
On Sept. 11, 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his peaceful campaign against injustices toward Indians in South Africa.
It is not the event we normally associate with Sept. 11. But on a day of remembering the victims of the Sept. 11,…
Laurie Drinkwater of Cornell University is leading a $1.6 million, multi-institution National Science Foundation study to determine the correlation between biogeochemical processes in agriculture pollution and institutional responses to the problem. (December 13, 2005)
The Cornell Public Service Center has been selected to be featured in the publication 'The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development', which is due out in September.'