CALS Research News

• Old Order farmers profit from new order idea | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature

  Six years ago Howard Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Conference Mennonite community, designed his first high tunnel. He showed the tunnel to Judson Reid, an extension associate with the Cornell Vegetable Program, who saw the advantages immediately.

• Rob Ryan '69 speaks on success, flowers and zebras | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature

  The Department of Applied Economics and Management 1210 -- Entrepreneurship Speaker Series brings entrepreneurs and others involved in personal enterprise to campus to share their thoughts on getting to the top and staying there.

• Working to keep water clean and plentiful in Greece, CU faculty reach out to international partners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/2008 Chronicle feature

  A promising international partnership for solving water shortages halfway around the world was strengthened this summer by two Cornell faculty members who traveled to Greece to help raise awareness of the issue.

• Cornell to add 11 more grad students to its life sciences fellows program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  Vice Provost for the Life Sciences Stephen Kresovich announced that due to the impact of the Presidential Life Sciences Fellows program, the Cornell administration will increase the number of fellowships to 20 from nine in the 2009-10 academic year.
• Experts to dissect Obama-McCain domestic policies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  "Educate the Vote: McCain v. Obama in 3D -- Data and Debate on Domestic Policy," will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday 9/26/08 in Bailey Hall. Experts on health care, immigration and Social Security will analyze the candidates' proposals and take questions.
• Cornell gets $10 million federal grant to establish new institute applying computing to sustainability | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/03/2008 Chronicle feature

  The Institute for Computational Sustainability is being launched at Cornell, under a program designed to pursue "far-reaching research agendas that promise significant advances in the computing frontier and great benefit to society

• Researchers locate geographic origins from DNA | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature

  A study published online this week in Nature by a team that included Cornell researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born.

• How equal is opportunity? Seminars engage alumni in social sciences research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/29/2008 Chronicle feature

  One in three black children lives in poverty, in contrast to one in seven white children. Unemployment rates for blacks are consistently twice as high as they are for whites.

• Cornell Urban Scholars gain perspective, experience from summer program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/25/2008 Chronicle feature

  Tywanquila Walker spent the summer working with families in New York City and came away with a new perspective on research and working with communities. She was part of the seventh class in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP).

• Sustainability a key word for CU at New York State Fair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2008 Chronicle feature

  Sustainability was the word of the day as Cornell President David Skorton, deans from Cornell's Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology, and Cornell Cooperative Extension...

• Law professor defends legality of controversial wars | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature

  In a new book, Cornell Law School faculty member Jens David Ohlin asks -- and answers -- one of the most debated questions of our time: When is war justified?

• Book charts trend of retirees moving to rural communities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature

  The book, "Rural Retirement Migration" (Springer), looks at historical trends in rural retirement migration and migration from the perspectives of retirees who have moved in as well as community leaders in their destination communities.

• Entomologist Soderlund honored with research award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature

  The Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded David M. Soderlund, professor of insecticide toxicology , the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals.

• Population center and its demographic research boosted by $1.15 million grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature

  Now, the program's ability to conduct demographic research at the national and international level has been boosted with a $1.15 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

• Kids in poverty are hurt by mom's stress and lack of social networks, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature

  "Our findings contrast with the view that inherent, personal qualities of low-income parents are the root cause of deficient parenting," said Gary Evans, a Cornell environmental psychologist.

• VP Tommy Bruce named to higher ed public issues group | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
• French writer, German scholar and British poet named A.D. White Professors-at-Large | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has appointed Hélène Cixous, Hans Föllmer and Denise Riley as A.D. White Professors-at-Large through June 2014. Professors-at-large scheduled to visit this fall are Shri Kulkarni, Bassam Tibi, Okko Behrends, J. Craig Venter and Lakhdar Brahimi.
• University of Colorado hosts tribute for Alfred Kahn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature

  The conference marks 30 years since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, which was spearheaded by Kahn, the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Cornell, when when he was chair of the now-defunct Civil Aeronautics Board.

• Eating less, eating local and eating better could slash U.S. energy use, CU study finds | News Release | 08/11/2008 Chronicle feature

  How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half, says a study authored by David Pimentel and former undergraduates Sean Williamson, Courtney Alexander, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Caitlin Kontak and Steven Mulkey, all Class of 2007.

• Nutrition alumni reunion honors Michael Latham | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/11/2008 Chronicle feature

  The Cornell International Nutrition Alums Reunion celebrated Latham's 40 years as professor of international nutrition, his scientific and other contributions to health and nutrition worldwide and his 80th birthday.

• New Cornell institute focuses on invasive species | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature

  Cornell, with support from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, has established the Invasive Species Research Institute (ISRI) at CALS. Holly Menninger, recently joined Cornell as coordinator of the new institute.

• Inaugural research forum focuses on next-generation accelerator project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature

  The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg Hoffstaetter in a lecture to faculty and staff.