Category: About One Health + Planetary Health
Sociologists to explore end-of-life care in Feb. 23 talk
By the year 2060, the number of Americans over age 65 is expected to double, to 24 percent of the population, intensifying concerns about end-of-life care. In a Feb. 23 talk, sociologists Holly Prigerson and Libby Luth will speak on “Psychosocial Influences on End-of-Life Care: Leveraging and Application of Social…
For girls who mature early, psychological problems last into adulthood
Brand Communications For the past 50 years, researchers have known that girls who get their periods earlier than their peers are more psychologically vulnerable as teenagers. They have more frequent and severe mental health problems, from depression to anxiety, eating disorders, delinquency, substance abuse and failing or dropping out of…
National program stops pests in public housing
Provided. Siavash Taravati, an urban IPM advisor at the University of California, demonstrates a bed bug inspection to housing staff at a StopPests training. When an apartment in a public housing building on Long Island became infested with bedbugs in 2015, managers called StopPests in Housing for help. The program, part…
Cornell launches new disability awareness campaign
Using campuswide postering and social media, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator Team is launching a new campaign, #DiversityIncludesDisability, to build awareness of disability issues and support for an inclusive and accessible environment for individuals with disability. Each month, a student, staff or faculty member will be highlighted –…
Snakes act as ‘ecosystem engineers’ in seed dispersal
Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize. New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds. It’s long been known that some plants disperse their seeds by “hitchhiking” on animals, with the seeds clinging…
Student Child Care Grant funding to increase $100,000
Provided. Children of Cornell graduate students attend a Graduate School welcome event for students with families. The Office of the Provost has approved a $100,000 increase in the annual budget for Cornell’s Student Child Care Grant Program for fiscal year 2019, Dean of Students Vijay Pendakur announced. The change brings the…
Speaker Spotlight: Mike Bishop, Engaged Cornell
What is your concept and viewpoints of leadership? Mike Bishop, director of student leadership for Office of Engagement Initiatives at Cornell, poses this question to students in the Cornell University’s Master of Public Health program. Public health practitioners often engage with community leaders and members to develop programs aimed at…
Restoration ecology class surveys Lake Treman
Far above Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca sits a reservoir dam impounding Lake Treman. Hiking trails wend through the area, which for eight decades has slowly accumulated enough sediment to turn the lake into plodding marsh. Sometime in the next 30 years, it will completely fill and become a riparian marsh.…
Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs
Kathryn Berry/James Cook University. An empty, plastic rice bag is nestled between corals. For coral reefs, the threat of climate change and bleaching are bad enough. An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans – intensifies disease for coral, adding…
Sociologists to explore end-of-life care in Feb. 23 talk
By the year 2060, the number of Americans over age 65 is expected to double, to 24 percent of the population, intensifying concerns about end-of-life care. In a Feb. 23 talk, sociologists Holly Prigerson and Libby Luth will speak on “Psychosocial Influences on End-of-Life Care: Leveraging and Application of Social…
For girls who mature early, psychological problems last into adulthood
Brand Communications For the past 50 years, researchers have known that girls who get their periods earlier than their peers are more psychologically vulnerable as teenagers. They have more frequent and severe mental health problems, from depression to anxiety, eating disorders, delinquency, substance abuse and failing or dropping out of…
National program stops pests in public housing
Provided. Siavash Taravati, an urban IPM advisor at the University of California, demonstrates a bed bug inspection to housing staff at a StopPests training. When an apartment in a public housing building on Long Island became infested with bedbugs in 2015, managers called StopPests in Housing for help. The program, part…
Cornell launches new disability awareness campaign
Using campuswide postering and social media, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator Team is launching a new campaign, #DiversityIncludesDisability, to build awareness of disability issues and support for an inclusive and accessible environment for individuals with disability. Each month, a student, staff or faculty member will be highlighted –…
Snakes act as ‘ecosystem engineers’ in seed dispersal
Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize. New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds. It’s long been known that some plants disperse their seeds by “hitchhiking” on animals, with the seeds clinging…
Student Child Care Grant funding to increase $100,000
Provided. Children of Cornell graduate students attend a Graduate School welcome event for students with families. The Office of the Provost has approved a $100,000 increase in the annual budget for Cornell’s Student Child Care Grant Program for fiscal year 2019, Dean of Students Vijay Pendakur announced. The change brings the…
Speaker Spotlight: Mike Bishop, Engaged Cornell
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What is your concept and viewpoints of leadership? Mike Bishop, director of student leadership for Office of Engagement Initiatives at Cornell, poses this question to students in the Cornell University’s Master of Public Health program. Public health practitioners often engage with community leaders and members to develop programs aimed at…
Restoration ecology class surveys Lake Treman
Far above Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca sits a reservoir dam impounding Lake Treman. Hiking trails wend through the area, which for eight decades has slowly accumulated enough sediment to turn the lake into plodding marsh. Sometime in the next 30 years, it will completely fill and become a riparian marsh.…
Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs
Kathryn Berry/James Cook University. An empty, plastic rice bag is nestled between corals. For coral reefs, the threat of climate change and bleaching are bad enough. An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans – intensifies disease for coral, adding…