In a follow-up to a June 17 Cornell Chronicle story, the university answers questions about a consultants' report with recommendations on suicide prevention and bridge safety. (July 8, 2010)
Susan Murphy, Cornell University vice president for student and academic affairs, has announced that a task force has been formed to address issues confronting Cornell's Asian and Asian-American student community. Murphy said the task force was established in response to the need for a campuswide approach to address campus climate, services and program issues as they relate to Cornell's Asian and Asian-American community. She noted that students of Asian descent comprise the largest single community of color at Cornell, at 14 percent of the total student body, 16 percent of all undergraduates and 55 percent of all international students. Any improvement in the well-being for this community will likely improve the campus climate for the university at large, she said. (January 22, 2003)
Last summer two Cornell students and one alumna lived alongside locals in rural and urban communities in Kenya, engaging them to generate ideas for sustainable micro-enterprises that may lift them out of poverty.
Daniel Libeskind, an influential architectural educator, theoretician and practitioner from Berlin, will deliver the 1998 Preston H. Thomas Lectures April 1 and 2.
Benito Mussolini died in shame, his battered corpse hung upside down dangling beside his lover in a public square. Josef Stalin was treated to a massive ceremonial funeral attended by thousands of mourners.
The constant roar from jet aircraft can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, according to a new Cornell study. The health problems resulting from chronic airport noise, including higher blood pressure and boosted levels of stress hormones, the researchers say, may have lifelong effects.
From dangerously rundown houses in rural upstate New York to urban shantytowns in Latin America, substandard housing is a growing international problem linked to globalization and poverty.
Diana Daniels is a fly-fishing soccer mom as well as vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees and general counsel and secretary of the Washington Post Co.
SAN FRANCISCO -- If California energy officials had paid closer attention to mathematics and the commodities market yesterday, much of the state could be experiencing less of an energy crisis today. A systematic use of market contracts, called options, purchased before the crisis happened, might have alleviated it, says Philip Protter, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Protter stresses that it is unclear why new types of options, called energy derivatives, were not used to good effect. This, he says, could have been the fault of regulators, or utilities themselves, "or the inadequacies of what is, after all, a new kind of market."
Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.