To kick off the yearlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Family Life Development Center (FLDC) at Cornell, Nancy Walker, a developmental psychologist and researcher from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will give two talks on children and the law, Tuesday, Dec. 1.
Anthony Seeger, curator of the Folkways Collection and director of Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution, will make his third visit to Cornell on March 24-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On Wednesday, March 27, he will give a public talk entitled "From the Suy‡ Indians to the Grateful Dead: 'Thanks.' "
What Peter Meinig called 'truly an auspicious day for Cornell,' interim President Hunter R. Rawlings called 'a very sad day in Iowa City, Iowa.' The day was Saturday, and the man Rawlings was referring to was Cornell's newly named 12th president, David Skorton.
On May 6, Cornell presented the second Women of Color Roundtable as well as first Men of Color Roundtable. The women's theme was 'Building Bridges Across Difference'; the men's theme, 'Include and Connect.' (May 15, 2008)
When it comes to fraternity drinking, following the leader can be a dangerous game, a new study shows. Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers.
A new book by a Cornell authority on early Islamic law shows that Muslim societies today have grown out of a rational, balanced legal tradition dating back at least to the 14th century. The book, Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500, by David Powers, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies, has just been published by Cambridge University Press as part of that publisher's series on Islamic civilization. Powers' book suggests that Islamic law as it was applied in the 14th and 15th century involved reasoned thought and argument by Muslim judges and jurists, who were highly sensitive to society and culture and how the law shaped, and was shaped by both. That finding refutes claims by an earlier generation of Western scholars who asserted that Islamic law lacked a body of legal doctrine and was, therefore, irrational. It also calls into question the popular assumption that Islamic legal practice can only be extremist. (November 08, 2002)
Child care is such an important industry to New York state -- generating billions of dollars, thousands of jobs and allowing hundreds of thousands of parents to work -- that it should be part of the state's economic development strategy, a new report from a Cornell researcher recommends.
As part of Cornell's Africa Initiative, students at Weill Cornell Medical College organized a forum on neglected diseases that included some of the most important names in global health. (Feb. 23, 2007)