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In a new study published this month by the journal Psychological Science, Prof. Gary Evans, design and environmental analysis, has found that poverty-induced stress triggers physiological responses in adolescents and children. This is the first research of its kind as previous studies have focused primarily on how poverty affects adults.
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Recognizing that administrative action is a key way to promote diversity on college campuses, universities across the country have created positions in their central administrations to help achieve this goal. Brown and Cornell are among the Ivies that have taken proactive steps to ensure that diversity remains a high priority for administrators.
Brown’s efforts are coordinated through its Office of Institutional Diversity, which has developed a position in the Provost’s office that specifically focuses on coordinating and supporting diversity efforts across the campus as a whole.
While other schools struggle to attract female engineering students and faculty, Cornell is setting itself apart from the crowd by making female recruits one of its top priorities. However, much work needs to be done if Cornell wants to remain at the top of the field.
According to the Undergraduate Admissions Office, of the 713 freshmen, only 31 percent are women. Yet this number is seen as evidence that the college is moving in the right direction. In 2004, only 26 percent of entering freshmen were female.
This increase in part can be attributed to the creation of the Diversity Programs for Engineering, which aims to improve the climate for underrepresented minorities, women students and faculty along with their recruitment and retention.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The 46.3 million Americans without health insurance coverage, coupled with the recent failure of Congress to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program has made health care one of the biggest domestic priorities in the U.S., according to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Last Thursday, Clinton spoke at The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Barbara Johnson Conference Center as part of a series of talks entitled “The Presidential Candidate Forums.” The topic of her speech was her stance on health care for the upcoming 2008 presidential election.
The forums, organized by the Federation of American Hospitals and Families USA, are designed to provoke an in-depth discussion of both Republican and Democratic candidates’ health care plans.
While immigrant populations have traditionally faced many problems when entering into a different culture, a new wave of immigrants are struggling more than their predecessors due to a series of rapid, technological changes altering the structure of the workplace.
In a recent study titled, “Bridging the Gap: Training Needs Assessment of the Immigrant Workforce in Onondaga County,” Maralyn Edid, senior extension associate in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, concluded that many of the immigrants settling in Onondaga County, N.Y. are not adequately prepared to fill the current entry-level positions in the labor market.
“The streets are filled with red drinking cups and cigarette butts,” said Matoula Halkiopoulos, a landlord who owns seven houses in Collegetown.
Last night, the Collegetown Neighborhood Council met to discuss the growing littering problem in both public and private properties. In conjunction with the University, landlords, business owners, and the city of Ithaca, the CNC stressed the importance of re-evaluating the effectiveness of current trash regulation and their enforcement, emphasizing its commitment to the Collegetown Vision Statement.
Co-chaired by Mary Tomlan ’71, (D-3rd Ward), and Gary Stewart, assistant director of government and community relations, the meeting acted as forum for several community members to voice their opinions.
Though the University has only given out two honorary degrees in the past, things may change soon thanks to a new proposal from Weill Cornell Medical College. The proposal, written by David Hajjar, executive vice provost of Weill, encourages the College to begin issuing honorary degrees to scientists who are alumni of the graduate or medical school and philanthropists who have substantially contributed to the biomedical community.
What you say online really does echo for eternity. At the beginning of this month, Facebook began publicly listing users’ profiles through mainstream search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. Facebook is making this part of its campaign to expand the website beyond the college community and into other networks.
According to Meredith Chin, coordinator of corporate communications for Facebook, the aim of allowing non-registered users to access profiles is so they can find their friends.
“This is part of our plan to shift into different demographics, and non-registered users can see the value in Facebook before they log on and register,” she said.
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Fedora Commons, an open-source software application, hopes to revolutionize the way scholars, institutions, and libraries share information. With a recent grant of $4.9 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Sandy Payette, a founder and co-director of Fedora Commons and researcher for Cornell’s Computer Science Department, hopes to further build an online system that fosters open collaboration between software developers and web site designers that can be used as a template for storing and preserving different types of data.
In light of two fraternity parties featuring racially-charged themes, several groups across campus, including Black Students United, United Progressives and Amnesty International held a rally on Ho Plaza yesterday calling for Cornell to end such racially-themed parties.