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Following inauguration rehearsal on Sept. 6, Vice Presidents Tommy Bruce, left, and Mary Opperman, inauguration committee co-chairs, pose with M.J. Herson '68 and President David Skorton. Herson…
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents. Rather, upon closer look, these scores point to a growing convergence, report two Cornell University developmental psychologists who are experts in intelligence assessment and types of intelligence. In comprehensive analyses of national data sets of mental test scores (including tests containing verbal analogies, vocabulary, mathematics, science, writing and spatial reasoning) for American students, Wendy M. Williams and Stephen J. Ceci, both in the Department of Human Development at Cornell, write in the November 1997 issue of the scholarly journal American Psychologist that "there is no compelling evidence supporting the hypothesis that a dysgenic (negative) trend is at work, undermining Americans' intellectual capital." Williams is an associate professor of human development, and Ceci is the Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, both in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
Events on campus include a visit by Keith Olbermann, concerts by CU Chorus and Anat Cohen, lectures by Lowery Stokes Sims, Eliot A. Cohen and Scott Peters, and a new museum exhibit. (March 17, 2011)
As the main plenary speaker for the 2001 conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen reportedly gave the higher education community a D-minus for failure to engage the imagination and passion of young people for math, science and engineering.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Jan. 27, 1999) issued a statement regarding freedom of speech and hate speech and harassment in the campus community.
Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office will host a town meeting on Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. featuring an address by President Hunter Rawlings. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall and will include a seating section for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals who do not want to be photographed.
Changes in the workplace continue to breed a climate of hostility and fear that is turning the workplace into a domestic battleground. But crisis management experts have found a new way to diffuse the hostility: They are using dispute resolution for violence prevention.
After nine years away, David Koehler will return to Cornell as director of business information systems for Cornell Information Technologies Oct. 1. He will lead Cornell's multimillion-dollar project to modernize its administrative systems over the next five years.
Cornell animal scientists are working with Mexican scholars to create a program that will eventually provide information to livestock farmers to raise the most productive and profitable animals they can.