Cornell Professor Stephen J. Ceci is the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. Established in 1996 to honor Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell.
Reaching across the Pacific Ocean with a friendly hand, Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings formally signed an academic partnership Nov. 15 with Peking University. This puts the final Beijing piece of Cornell's new China and Asia-Pacific Studies program into place. (November 15, 2005)
A new study by psychiatrists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine highlights the toll that anxiety and depressive disorders exact on workplace performance and profits, and suggests improved psychiatric evaluation as a cost-effective approach.
The Cornell Public Service Center and the United Way of Tompkins County are recruiting locally for new AmeriCorps*VISTA members to serve in the Tompkins, Tioga and Schuyler county communities. AmeriCorps is a federally funded network of national service programs that engage 50,000 Americans each year. VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America and is often referred to as the "domestic Peace Corps." Since the early 1960s, the VISTA program has embedded volunteers for one-year terms within low-income communities to help address critical issues related to poverty. In 1993, VISTA formally joined the AmeriCorps network, and today nearly 6,000 AmeriCorps*VISTA members serve in hundreds of nonprofit organizations and public agencies throughout the United States. (March 24, 2004)
"Someone must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested." So begins The Trial, Franz Kafka's prophetic – some have argued comically absurd – novel.
Richard Rominger, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will tour Cornell on Friday afternoon, present the keynote address at the Northeast Regional Alpha Zeta Conference on campus on Friday evening.
Garbage-truck traffic through Ithaca -- instead of on the surrounding interstates -- does not save truckers time or much money, and is causing safety issues for the community, a Cornell study shows. (June 9, 2008)
Cornell Library's Digital Consulting and Production Services unit (DCAPS) is one-stop service for the Cornell community, providing a complete array of cost-effective services that support the entire life cycle of digital information.
The next U.S. president will face the daunting task of re-establishing the nation's legitimacy on the global stage, said scholars in a reunion weekend roundtable. (June 7, 2008)
More than half the urban teenagers surveyed in a study by a Cornell researcher say they feel disconnected from their community. The reasons for this come, in part, from feeling discriminated against by unknown adults on the streets, in businesses and by the police.