6 May 2021
by: Joseph Cariz Proteins, hormones and immune factors in maternal blood can help predict labor timing. | Stelzer et al., STM Proteins, hormones and immune factors in maternal blood can help predict labor timing. | Stelzer et al., STM
Doctors have long sought accurate ways to predict the onset of labor in expecting mothers, but the shift from pregnancy to labor isn t fully understood.
Now, a new study of 63 pregnant women has revealed how the immune system, various proteins, and other aspects of human biology change in the weeks before the onset of labor. The findings allowed the scientists to build a predictive model that could estimate the onset of labor in the women within two weeks.
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Eve De Rosa, associate professor of human development, will start her three-year term as dean of faculty on July 1. In historic vote, Eve De Rosa elected dean of faculty
May 6, 2021
For the first time in 149 years, Cornell’s faculty has elected a woman, a person of color, and a professor from the College of Human Ecology as dean of faculty.
Eve De Rosa, associate professor of human development, will start her three-year term on July 1. She will replace Charles Van Loan, who has served as faculty dean since 2016. Voting took place April 19-30.
“Eve’s track record in the College of Human Ecology points to just what a creative, sensitive faculty member can do when working in combination with others who want to move the institution forward,” said Van Loan, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the College of Engineering. “It is very exciting that she will now be operating at the university level leading our great facu