Some of the hottest debates raging in America today hinge on the extent to which governments can, or should, regulate human relationships. Should states hold parents accountable for their children's crimes? Restrict no-fault divorces? Prohibit same-sex marriages? Addressing such questions, commentators often lament the loss of propriety that prevailed early in this century, when more families were intact, more morals adhered to.
Scientists led by a Cornell chemist have determined the structure of a key protein that binds to a powerful immunosuppressive agent, opening the door to improved cancer treatments and human gene therapy.
Locksley Edmondson, Cornell University professor of political science and the recent director of the university's Africana Studies and Research Center, has been elected president of the Caribbean Studies Association, the world's leading scholarly organization on the Caribbean, with more than 1,000 members. He began his one-year term as president July 1.
James E. Turner, the founding director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, was reappointed to the post for a five-year term by the provost, effective July 1. A professor of Africana Studies whose first stint as director lasted 17 years, Turner is a political sociologist specializing in African-American social movements and is a leading expert on Malcolm X.
Despite Ezra Cornell's decree that he would "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," instruction in hotel management at Cornell University almost didn't happen. In the early 1900s, Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman rejected the idea that Cornell should provide hotel management training as "absolutely out of the question."
Cornell University has adopted new, universitywide procedures for responding to complaints of sexual harassment, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (July 10).
College students from around the country taking part in a summer institute in theoretical and mathematical biology at Cornell are surprised to learn that math has uses outside of academia.
Nine land-grant university libraries -- the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University among them -- have received a two-year, $850,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and protect brittle agricultural volumes.
Thomas C. Keane, acting director of financial aid and student employment at Cornell University, has been named director effective July 1, announced Donald A. Saleh, dean of admissions and financial aid. Keane, who joined Cornell in 1983, has been acting director since July 1994, succeeding Saleh in that position. Keane.
Wrestling with New York's cool climate is the pain and the glory of their profession for the region's winemakers and grape growers. Much of the Finger Lakes' increasing reputation for good wine over the past decade is because the region's microclimate is similar to the fine grape growing regions of Germany and France.
Laurie A. Robinson, acting director of development at Cornell University, has been appointed director, announced Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Robinson is a 1977 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
A former bus driver who rose through the ranks of several mass-transit agencies has been named the first general manager of TCAT, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit system. The appointment of Rodney Ghearing is effective today (July 8).
