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• New map of variation in maize genetics holds promise for developing new varieties | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 11/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
• Conference investigates the best ways to translate research into policy and practice | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The take-home message from the 2nd Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference Developing a systematic method of taking basic research in the social and behavioral sciences and translating it into real-world practices will ultimately improve American lives.
• Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  To battle the hemlock-killing Laricobius nigrinus beetles, a team of entomologists has released one of the adelgids' natural predators as a local case study.
• New CALS option teaches biology for the real world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  CALS students in non-life science majors can partially meet their life sciences distribution requirements without taking a two-semester introductory biology survey course.
• Half of U.S. children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Food stamps are important indicators of poverty and risk of food insecurity, "two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health," says Cornell Professor Thomas A. Hirschl.
• Cornell receives nearly $850,000 to improve specialty crops | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  CALS researchers aim to arm farmers with blight-resistant varieties and crop management strategies to beat Phytophthora blight, as well as other issues that affect specialty crops.
• New center to bring CU agricultural innovations to China | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Sept. 24 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Cornell and the Department of Science and Education of China's Ministry of Agriculture facilitated the creation of the Sino-U.S. Ray Wu Agricultural Technology Innovation Center at Cornell.
• Researcher uses funding to study heavy metal tolerance | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Using the worm model system C. elegans and a grant of almost $750,000 from the National Science Foundation funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), Olena Vatamaniuk plans to study heavy metal tolerance.
• Undersecretary of agriculture turns to Cornell as a model of urban extension | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The USDA is planning to launch the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which will address the issues of food safety, nutrition and obesity and will be modeled after the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Cornell and New York Public Library launch partnership | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In a partnership that will build on the resources of two of New York City's largest educational and cultural institutions to educate city residents, Cornell and the New York Public Library (NYPL) this month joined forces to create Cornell@NYPL.
• Fertilizers may not help crops of poorest African farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Two studies by Chris Barrett and Paswel Marenya, Ph.D. '08, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, find flaws in the fertilizer-promotion strategy used by dozens of African countries to improve soil health, crop yields and the wealth of poor farmers.
• Program offers green job training to veterans, many with disabilities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  CCE Onondaga has created a program called A Different Shade of Green, which will provide job training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for jobs in environmentally sustainable fields.
• Class-sized sod sofa satisfies whims, builds teams | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in the Art of Horticulture created a giant piece of lawn furniture in the pond area of the F.R. Newman Arboretum. They shoveled, shaped and sodded a truck-sized sod sofa.
• Cornell study: Long work hours, job dissatisfaction affect what family eats at home | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  These conditions as well as the lack of access to healthy foods prompt many parents to use such coping strategies as eating takeout meals, missing meals and serving prepared entrees, reports Carol Devine, professor of nutritional sciences.
• Tree inventory for climate plan uncovers Cornell's biggest and oldest trees | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's first comprehensive tree inventory, conducted this summer, finds that the campus's 7,000-plus trees store millions of pounds of carbon and provide more than half a million dollars in benefits to the university.
• Study confirms classic theory on the origins of biodiversity | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove the theory called adaptive radiation -- when species rapidly multiply and diversify for a time as they colonize new resources and then level off.
• Highly valued rice fragrance has origins in basmati rice, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A new study, published Aug. 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms that basmati rice, long assumed to be an Indica variety, is actually more closely related genetically to Japonica rice.
• New Cornell lab in Portland, N.Y., specializes in vines, wines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell deepened its century-long commitment to western New York's wine, grape and juice industries when it officially opened its new $5.4 million Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory (CLEREL) in Portland, N.Y.
• $3.2 million NSF grant trains grad students to tackle food systems and poverty problems | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The grant will support 25 Ph.D. students for two years each in the Food Systems and Poverty Reduction Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program, administered through CIIFAD.
• CU researcher uses stimulus funds to study infectious disease resistance | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Using fruit flies as a model, Brian Lazzaro, Cornell associate professor of entomology, will study connections between the immune system and other physiological processes in determining resistance to infectious disease.
• Gates grant to extend reach of ag journals in Africa | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) operates offline, allowing scholars at African universities (where Internet service is very limited) to use academic journals via an external hard drive.
• State comptroller and Cornell help local governments through economic crisis | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To help local governments find new ways to deliver services at a lower cost to their constituents, comptroller Thomas DiNapoli created the institute, in partnership with Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) and Hofstra University.
• Summer scholars focus on plant disease | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/18/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  The initial Plant Pathology Summer Research Scholars Program at NYSAES in Geneva, N.Y. , was designed to teach young scholars to plan and conduct experiments, evaluate data and explain their findings.
• In pilot program, Cornell uses sterilization and hunting to control campus deer | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have begun a five-year research project to reduce "deer abundance and associated impacts" by 75 percent on central campus and 50 percent in less developed outlying areas.
• Maize findings could lead to vigorous new varieties and insights into human genetics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Two new large-scale studies by researchers at Cornell and the USDA, published in the journal Science, report major discoveries in maize genetics that could revolutionize maize breeding and may help researchers better predict complex traits in humans.
• Researchers identify way to speed up sheep breeding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Former Cornell postdoctoral researcher Raluca Mateescu co-authored a study with Animal Science Professor Mike Thonney and professor emeritus Doug Hogue that identifies a gene that prompts ewes to breed out-of-season, more frequently and at younger ages.
• Program encourages home-cooked meals with local produce | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Christine Olson, professor of nutritional sciences has teamed up with Cornell Cooperative Extension to create a program called "Eat Well. Eat Local. Eat Together." -- or Eat3.
• Program helps rural workers and communities walk their way to a lower breast cancer risk | 08/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  One risk factor for breast cancer that women can do something about is obesity. Cornell's prevention program -- Small Steps Are Easier Together -- reaches out to rural communities and workplaces to get that message out.
• Aging population, sustainability issues come together at interdisciplinary conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/31/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  At the first Cornell Conference on Aging and the Environment, discussions focused on 3 topics: the potential impacts of climate change on the elderly; environmental volunteerism among older adults; and the environmental impact of housing for the elderly.
• CALS Dean Susan Henry will step down in 2010 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Susan Henry will step down as dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell when her second five-year term ends June 30, 2010.
• Cornell helps set research agenda for how to protect birds, bats from wind turbines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  A coalition of scientists met recently to address questions about how continued wind energy development will affect migrating birds and bats. The meeting was hosted by the CLO, the American Bird Conservancy and the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread.
• Stephen Kresovich heads to University of South Carolina | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Stephen Kresovich, Cornell's vice provost for life sciences since 2005, has been named vice president for research and graduate education at the University of South Carolina, effective Oct. 1.
• CALS genomicists aim to save citrus from 'greening' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Citrus greening, which, in the words of a USDA entomologist, causes juice from infected fruit to "taste like jet fuel mixed with Vicks VapoRub," threatens to be a devastating blow for domestic citrus production.
• Cornell receives more than $5.5 million from USDA for Bangladesh Food for Progress project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell program will seek to implement solutions to environmental constraints to agricultural production in Bangladesh, including acidic soils and groundwater issues.
• Cornell Cooperative Extension to hold public sessions on Marcellus Shale exploration | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Marcellus Shale region runs from the Southern Tier of New York through western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. Natural gas production companies hope to use a new method of drilling to tap previously unreachable underground formations.
• From teacher training to cultural exchange, students get to know Rwanda | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A service-learning trip to Rwanda was organized by the Cornell Public Service Center and conceived by Stephen Paletta '87, whose nonprofit organization, the International Education Exchange (IEE), hosted Cornell students.
• 'Lab on a chip' to give growers real-time glimpse into water stress in plants | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The device is an embedded microsensor capable of measuring real-time water stress in living plants. In theory, the sensor will help vintners strike the precise balance between drought and overwatering -- both of which diminish the quality of wine grapes.
• Disease that caused Irish potato famine is devastating tomatoes, potatoes this year | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  This year, late blight is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States. In addition, basil downy mildew is affecting plants in the Northeast.
• CALS wins three awards for publications and an event | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association (NAADA) has recognized Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) with a first-place and two second-place awards in its annual competition.
• Cornell celebrates long-standing collaboration with India-based management company | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell honored its 15-year collaboration with India-based Sathguru Management Consultants and the 10th anniversary of the Cornell-Sathguru Agribusiness Management Program (AMP) at an event on June 25, 2009.
• Three USDA labs on Cornell campuses to receive $925,000 for upgrades | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health in Ithaca and the Plant Genetic Resources Unit and Grape Genetics Research Unit on Cornell's Geneva campus will receive $925,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for upgrades.
• Gardens sow common ground for military families to cope with deployment stress | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Cooperative Extension's (CCE) Defiant Gardens program plants gardens in the ground and in plastic containers on military bases and in communities with many military families and sends container gardens to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
• Bio-acoustic recorders could answer question: Do wind farms pose risks to migratory birds? | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Nobody really knows for sure because two-thirds of migrating bird species fly at night, making direct study of their habits and potential hazards a challenge, said researchers at the Cornell Workshop on Large-Scale Wind-Generated Power, June 13, 2009 .
• Donated truck from the state almost doubles Cornell's milk-moving ability | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Dairy Operations can now transport almost twice as much milk -- and thereby use half as much fuel as before, thanks to a 4,200-gallon tanker truck transferred to Cornell by the New York State Department of Corrections.
• Professors brief Congressional staffers about food safety before key vote | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  Just days before a U.S. House committee voted to expand the Food and Drug Administration's power to monitor the nation's food supply, Robert Gravani and colleague Kathryn Boor briefed about 45 Congressional staffers on the science of food safety.
• Emeritus professor helps farmers in Malawi | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Hugh Price, professor emeritus of horticultural sciences at the NYSAES, just returned from a 3-week assignment in Malawi as part of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Developmen
• World use of fertilizer varies wildly and threatens environment, says professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  An Article published in the Policy Forum piece of this week's Science journal compares the nutrient balances of the three very different agricultural systems that grow maize as a major grain.
• Deadly beetle discovered for first time in New York, threatening state's ash trees | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Washington, D.C., announced official identification of the beetle in New York state June 18 after receiving and examining specimens sent by Cornell researchers.
• Professors learn to navigate diversity in the classroom | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity, held June 7-10 2009, provided participants with the intellectual and pedagogical tools to infuse diverse perspectives into their courses and among their students.
• Cornell Plantations plagued by sophisticated plant thieves | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "These thefts have a ripple effect. They rob faculty and students of the teaching value of these collections, they demoralize our dedicated gardening staff and destroy valuable research," said Donald Rakow, Cornell Plantations director.
• CALS helps make sure water under the bridge runs clear | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "With our faculty and resources, we can be one of the premier water programs in the country," says Rebecca Schneider, Ph.D. '94, Cornell associate professor of natural resources, adding that water is potentially an even bigger issue than oil.
• Online tool helps N.Y. grape growers pick vineyard sites | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The resource, funded by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation offers users macroscopic aerial views of the state's diverse grape-growing regions.
• Today's dairy farms use less land, feed and water | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  The dairy industry has reduced its carbon footprint over the past 60 years by improving genetics, nutrition, herd management and animal welfare, reports a study by Jude Capper, lead author and a former Cornell postdoctoral researcher, with Dale Bauman.
• Cornell teams up with National Renewable Energy Lab to establish national center | 06/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Building on it's leadership in sustainability and the knowledge gained through development of its Climate Action Plan (CAP), Cornell is collaborating with the NREL to create a virtual resource: The Center of Expertise on Net-Zero Carbon Campuses.
• Incoming freshman class more diverse, but achievement rates still lacking, says deputy provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Enrolling students from more diverse backgrounds is just one of four broad university goals. Equally important are engagement, inclusiveness, and achievement.
• Old hats at sustainability, Haudenosaunee show the way during Reunion Weekend | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In celebration of the vital role that indigenous peoples have played in sustainability, the American Indian Program and the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future co-hosted the 2009 Cornell Native American Alumni Association Reunion Iroquois Social.
• First 'computational sustainability' conference to draw an unexpected crowd | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  Researchers will converge on Cornell June 8-11 for the first conference on computational sustainability -- how to use computing to balance environmental, economic and societal needs for a sustainable future.
• Al Gore and Ratan Tata agree that 'leapfrog' technologies could counter climate change and poverty | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Al Gore and other panelists, including Ratan Tata '59, chairman of the Tata Group, agreed that the "tyranny" of gleaning short-term gains in economics and politics too often undermines long-term progress.
• CU professor gets grant to detect steroid use in athletes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Partnership for Clean Competition, a research collaborative founded by the NFL, Major League Baseball, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, gave J Thomas Brenna a grant to develop methods to detect designer steroids in urine.
• Iowa farmer turns to engineering students for (hypothetical) help reclaiming valuable topsoil | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Talha Omer, Kevin Ham, Anshuman Bhairavbhat, Shaan Qamar and associate professor of operations research Huseyin Topaloglu discuss the students' master of engineering project that optimized redistribution of topsoil on a farm in Iowa.
• Biomedical engineering grad students to help rural teachers communicate science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  Ten Cornell graduate students will spend the summer and the upcoming school year helping middle school and high school teachers in rural outlying districts teach science in fun, innovative ways, supported by a five-year, $3 million NSF grant to Cornell.
• CU recycles half its garbage into high-quality compost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  For these composting efforts, Cornell's eight-acre composting facility received a 2009 Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency April 24 2009.
• Cornell-led study finds most overweight U.S. women gain too much weight during pregnancy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Nearly two-thirds of U.S. women of childbearing age are overweight -- and almost half of those women are obese. The health stakes of gaining too much weight during pregnancy for both children and mothers are getting increasingly higher.
• Meeting developing-world challenges requires large-scale vision, vice provost tells conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  At the Collaborate@Cornell: Global Partnerships, Knowledge and Technology conference, vice provost Alice Pell noted that the era of small projects that involve just a few hundred people is over.
• Michael Farrell receives volunteerism award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Michael Farrell, director of Cornell's Sugar Maple Research and Extension Field Station was recognized as a Distinguished Volunteer of the Year by the village of Lake Placid.
• Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) Academic Venture Fund awards five grants to explore burning powdered wood, developing cheaper solar cells and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The projects are: Sustainability of food systems, Assessing net carbon emissions in agricultural regions, Impact of green-energy development on rural community sustainability, Micropowdered biomass combustion as a sustainable energy source and more.
• Nutrition professors Martha Stipanuk, Kathleen Rasmussen win national awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  Martha Stipanuk and Kathleen Rasmussen, both professors in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell, received awards at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting this month.
• Mann Library rooftop terrace named for Dean Susan Henry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  April 23, alumni and friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) dedicated the newly installed rooftop garden on the southern end of Mann Library as the Susan A. Henry Garden Terrace in honor of her significant contributions to Cornell.
• Washington alumni hear about Cornell's 'culture of sustainability' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In the hour-long question-and-answer session, the panelists addressed queries ranging from student engagement with sustainability and learning from indigenous cultures to geothermal energy, wind power, carbon offsets and controversies on biofuels.
• $1 million USDA grant to compare organic with conventional dairy cows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The research team, which will use the data to develop recommendations for keeping dairy cows healthy while optimizing income and the quality of the milk, includes investigators from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
• With $1.1 million from Sea Grant, Cornell to study PCBs, lake invaders and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  New York Sea Grant has awarded research funding in 2009-10 to fiveCornell projects.
• Alfalfa snout beetle, an expensive pest on N.Y. farms, is now under attack itself | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Two very different beetle controls are under investigation. One is to grow tiny worms called nematodes that naturally attack the beetle. The other is to develop alfalfa varieties that are resistant to the beetle.
• CU-developed apple varieties tested at 30 N.Y. orchards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Funded by the New York Farm Viability Institute, the program aims to fast-track grower testing of 42 advanced apple-breeding selections.
• Vet students work on monkeys, macaws and menacing snakes and reptiles in Honduras | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Seven students -- all in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine -- practiced clinical skills while in Honduras with the International Veterinary Medicine Abroad program for 10 days in January.
• Congressman Massa calls Biofuels Research Laboratory 'national asset' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The $6 million lab, funded by the Empire State Development Corp., opened in January in Riley Robb Hall to develop sustainable and economical biofuels from such nonfood crops as sorghum, willow and switchgrass.
• Mary Ochs appointed director of Mann Library | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Mary Ochs '79 is the new director of Albert R. Mann Library. During her long career at Cornell University Library, Ochs has left her mark on collection development, instruction, reference, interlibrary loan and international initiatives.
• Library scales back on books, journals, databases | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  Facing the same budgetary challenges as the university in the coming year, Cornell University Library will reduce acquisitions of library materials for fiscal year 2010.
• Chinese delegation visits campus to reclaim historic fungi collection after 70-year Cornell stewardship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  After years of careful stewardship by Cornell scientists, a collection of more than 2,000 species of native Chinese fungi, spirited out of the country for safety before World War II, is finally set to make its way home.
• Durst honored by inclusion in institute's portrait gallery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Richard Durst has been selected for inclusion in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Portrait Gallery, which honors distinguished National Bureau of Standards (NBS)/NIST alumni for "outstanding career contributions to the work of NBS/NIST."
• Cornell's agriculture and veterinary roles stressed by N.Y.'s new senator during campus visit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In her first visit to Cornell as New York's junior U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand pledged to advocate for the university's agriculture and veterinary programs as a way of revitalizing New York state's economy.
• Faculty address obesity prevention with N.Y. health commissioner | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  New York Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., met with faculty members in the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and of Human Ecology to discuss obesity prevention, and sought their ideas for "turning sound science into sound policy".
• Grieger serving on U.S. technical advisory group on nanotechnology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  James Grieger, associate director of the research and radiation safety section in Environmental Health and Safety at Cornell, is contributing to an international effort to develop standardization in the field of nanotechnologies.
• In new briefings series, professors present science to D.C. policymakers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In launching a new CALS series of educational briefings for policymakers in Washington, D.C., two Cornell professors addressed agriculture, natural resources and climate change at the House Natural Resources Committee's hearing room March 27th.
• World food crisis is as much about ethics and prices as availability, say experts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  During "Visible Warnings: The World Food Crisis in Perspective," a two-day conference at Cornell, world experts examined the history, economics, ethics, ecological implications and politics of food security and the current food crisis.
• Horticulture students head south to Belize to show how gardens enrich schools | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  As part of the course Experiential Garden-Based Learning in Belize (Hort. 4940), Cornell educators, undergraduates and CCE educators worked with the U.S. nonprofit organization Plenty Belize to focus on school gardens in southern Belize.
• Extension helps communities be more efficient | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  With an eye on achieving sustainability in the 21st century, Cornell and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) are helping upstate municipalities explore how they could merge or share services.
• Teaching winery opens on campus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell, long known for its viticulture (grape-growing) research, now claims the only university teaching winery in the eastern United States. The $900,000 facility promises to prepare students for careers in New York's wine and grape industry.
• 4-H group maps new ground, combining geospatial science with community service | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The 4-H GeoSeekers Club of Ontario County is mapping fire hydrants, but the project is not just for fun or learning: What they record will end up in maps used by firefighters, ambulance drivers and other emergency responders in Manchester, N.Y.
• New Vet College multimedia resource helps protect poultry and human health | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A three-hour instructional DVD series and Web-based interactive diagnostic tool, called Poultry Examination and Diagnostics, was produced by veterinarians at Cornell and funded by an educational contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• New biofuel lab focuses on turning bales into barrels | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell made a giant leap toward solving the current energy crisis and reversing man-made climate change when researchers moved into the new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory (BRL) earlier this semester.
• Ralph Christy named director of CIIFAD | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD).
• New method applies pesticides in nanofibers to keep chemicals on target | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To prevent pesticides from drifting away and potentially posing risks to the environment, Cornell researchers have devised a solution: Apply the pesticides by encapsulating them in biodegradable nanofibers.
• Cornell continues to generate more than $3 billion in New York annually | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell generated $3.317 billion statewide in fiscal year 2007, 8 percent more than it did two years prior in 2005- and led universities in NY in research expenditures, totaling $659 million, according to an economic impact report released by Cornell.
• Local foods: Good for your health and the economy, stresses state commissioner | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "Local foods, first" is a high priority for Albany policymakers who want to move locally grown fresh food, fruits and vegetables into the homes of New Yorkers, said Patrick Hooker, commissioner of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
• New free online videos help mentor new farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To provide new farmers a resource lifeline, the New York Beginning Farmer Project has just released a series of 12 online videos, titled "Voices of Experience." Through interviews with 12 enterprising farmers, the videos are intended to help new farmers.
• New course explores alternative careers in the life sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  Career Options for Ph.D.s in the Life Sciences (BioGD 7900; BioBM 7940) is a new mini-course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows offered this year that highlights the range of careers available to doctorates in the biological sciences.
• New environmental major preparing to graduate its first group of students | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  This May, the first group of students majoring in the science of natural and environmental systems (SNES) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will graduate.
• Asian center gets a director and temporary space | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has established an interim space at 14 South Avenue for an Asian/Asian American center. Patricia Nguyen, currently at the University of Vermont, will be associate dean and center director, starting April 20.
• New Cornell initiative transforms 'biotrash' into bioenergy to help fuel the university | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  CUAES has launched the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative (CURBI), a plan to use 57 campus waste streams and other biomass resources to generate bioenergy to keep Cornell economically, environmentally and socially sustainable.
• Prison Education Program expands its offerings | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Each semester, the 15-week program brings in volunteer faculty and teaching assistants from Cornell, providing a liberal arts curriculum free of charge to inmates who can now work toward an associate's degree from Cayuga Community College.
• Computer games (and pizza) help build K-12 computer skills | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Last fall, 25 Ithaca-area middle and high school students learned how to make their own games, picking up some new computer skills in the bargain, in a free after-school program on the Cornell campus.
• Cornell and local organizations offer volunteer training to fight deadly hemlock pest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  Training workshops, which will give high priority to early detection of new infestations, will be held Friday, March 13, at 1 p.m.; Saturday, March 21, at 10 a.m.; and Monday, March 23, at 3 p.m., all at the Plantations Botanic Garden's Lewis Building.
• Experts to highlight bioenergy innovations at Sun Grant conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  Scientists from all over the country will convene in Washington, D.C., for the Sun Grant Initiative Energy Conference, March 10-13.
• Viewing taped lectures online boosts grades, raises questions | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A pilot project last fall gave students in seven courses free access to VideoNote, an online service offering taped lectures. In one course that was tracked closely, students scored higher on their final on questions about topics they had reviewed online.
• Economy needs an even larger stimulus for desired 'short, sharp jolt,' says CU economist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Steven Kyle, associate professor of AEM and a frequent commentator on macroeconomic issues, also made some predictions in his Feb. 26 lecture, "Will the Stimulus Actually Work? -or- Are We Looking at a Rerun of the Great Depression?
• Cornell coordinates breeders in race against time to save world's wheat from deadly fungus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  World food experts worry that strain of wheat stem rust known as Ug99 will continue east and infect wheat in Pakistan and India, which produce 15 percent of the world's wheat and feed more than a billion of the world's poorest people.
• Hydroponic gardens calm Rikers Island teen inmates | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  For the last three years on Rikers Island, Philson Warner has been nurturing the Hydroponics Learning Model program that he developed and has run for more than two decades through CUCE.
• Good farm management can preserve nature without yield losses, says professor at AAAS | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In her talk, "Food Security, Agricultural Systems and the Provision of Diverse Services," Alison Power, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, suggested ways that farmers could continue to efficiently provide food, forage and fiber.
• New student team aims to create biomachines that destroy pollutants, cancer cells | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team, formed this year, uses biological, not mechanical, components to make machines.
• In flurry of studies, researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Rui Hai Liu, associate professor of food science, reports that fresh apple extracts significantly inhibited the size of mammary tumors in rats -- and the more extracts they were given, the greater the inhibition.
• Improved test screens fungal pests for biofuel sources | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Plant pathologist and adjunct professor Donna Gibson, with graduate students Marie Donnelly, Brian King and other Cornell researchers have improved a method to screen many fungal species rapidly to find ones that can most efficiently produce biofuels.
• Cornell helps India's small farmers fight moth larvae with genetically modified eggplant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Small farmers in India will soon have a more effective option for growing genetically modified eggplant, developed with Cornell's help, which continually expresses a naturally occurring insecticide derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
• Cornell podcasts offer career advice in a sinking economy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "We try to use the podcast to pull in alumni and appeal to current students to be part of the networking that is so important," says host Romi Kher, an AEM graduate student, who launched the series with Rachel Gordon '08 and professor Deborah Streeter.
• Cornell professor faults systemic failures in salmonella outbreak from peanut butter | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  When the media needed background on the national salmonella outbreak that has been traced to a Blakely, Ga., peanut-processing plant, they turned to Cornell Food Science professor Robert Gravani.
• Bark, berry and cone: The Mullestein Winter Garden offers color during Ithaca's snowy season | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Peter Marks, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, came up with the idea when he visited a winter garden at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Funding was provided by Whitey Mullestein '32, a longtime benefactor of Cornell.
• Five on faculty honored as AAAS fellows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  Five Cornell faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
• Students vie to enroll in new dual-degree programs linking traditional India with state-of-the-art Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Starting this summer, Cornell and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will offer dual-degree programs in food science and plant breeding with up to 15 Indian students accepted for each program.
• Cornell helps develop robotic tractor and sprayer with shared $3.9 million grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In coming years, the bucolic scene of a driver guiding a tractor and spray rig up and down an orchard or vineyard could go by the wayside. Researchers at NYSAES are helping to create robotic tractors and sprayers that do not require human operators.
• Weeklong training helps CALS professors cope with others' tears and fears | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The leadership program, offered twice a year, is designed to enrich faculty members' understanding of their strengths and weaknesses as personal communicators, conflict managers, team builders and change leaders.
• Cornell signs grape research and licensing venture with Sun World International | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell and Sun World operate two of the world's leading fresh grape breeding programs. The venture aims to combine their research strengths to develop improved varieties for grape growers, both here and abroad.
• Andrew Clark named the first Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Andrew Clark, professor of population genetics has been named the first Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. The award recognizes and supports "outstanding, innovative faculty life sciences research at Cornell."
• A food scare by terrorists could 'substantially' affect consumers and markets | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A study by Cornell researchers, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, provides insight into how use of the food supply by terrorists might affect consumers and food markets.
• Students help Botswana firm that markets wild-food products and helps locals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To help a fledgling natural-food products company in Botswana that produces snacks from plants in the wild while benefiting local communities, three Cornell students and a faculty member flew to the southern African nation for 10 days over winter break.
• Geneva Head Start marks 20-year milestone in visiting experiment station | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "Their visit each year has become a real highlight for our lab and is one small way to help out the community," horticultural sciences professor Alan Lakso said.
• New York's first lady partners with Cornell to improve health of state's children | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  New York first lady Michelle Paige Paterson is launching a statewide fitness initiative called "Healthy Steps to Albany's Challenge" to encourage middle school students to exercise more and eat more healthful foods.
• Decline of carbon dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  New evidence from a study led by graduate student Dan Rabosky of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Lab of Ornithology takes into account a widespread problem in paleontology: that younger fossils are easier to find than older ones
• Hind wings help butterflies make swift turns to evade predators, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A recently published study on butterfly wings by Tom Eisner and Benjamin Jantzen (M.S. physics '02) proposes that in the course of evolution, the ability of butterflies to evade predators became linked with bright coloring, as an added protection.
• Gandhi grows in the grass in Mann Library lobby | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in Hort. 2010, The Art of Horticulture, developed the theme for a grass art installation of a larger-than-life portrait called "A Message From Earth."
• CU experts hold first-of-kind meeting to help state leaders cope with climate change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  More than 50 conservationists, policymakers, industry leaders and other stakeholders from across New York state were in Ithaca Dec. 8 to hear from Cornell experts on how climate change affects state ecosystems and how best to respond to a warming planet.
• Mann Library expands access to rare beekeeping volumes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  Albert R. Mann Library has added the first 20 volumes of The American Bee Journal, in print since 1861 and a key American beekeeping publication, to its Hive and the Honeybee online library of historical materials from the E.F. Phillips Collection.
• Cornell welcomes its first Joint Japan/World Bank scholars | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The program awards scholarships to graduate students pursuing degrees in economic and social development. Students who complete the program must return to their home countries and apply their education to their nations' development.
• Cornell sustainability center hiring researchers to explore new frontiers of climate change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The recruitment process will address the interests of the larger university community. Departments and colleges will be involved in developing job descriptions and recruitment and candidates' expertise will determine the most appropriate home department.
• CU economist calls for 'stimulus shock and awe' for U.S. economy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  One week after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the U.S. economy has been mired in a yearlong recession, Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicted that the financial tumult would continue well into 2009.
• Sustainable Tompkins honors three Cornell projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's efforts in renewable bio-energy, green building and sustainable living, including Cornell Lab of Ornithology Group for Sustainability and CURBI, were honored at this year's Sustainable Tompkins' Annual Holiday Party.
• Cornell technology makes biogas greener | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell plant scientists have invented a new method that uses manure and other farm byproducts to remove toxic hydrogen sulfide from biogas -- a renewable energy source derived from the breakdown of animal waste.
• CU researchers: High tunnels yield healthier, prettier produce and longer growing seasons | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  High tunnels produce higher-yielding crops and expand the growing season, says Chris Wien, Cornell professor of horticulture and the leader of high tunnel research projects funded through the New York Farm Viability Institute.
• Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geosciences, quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found that there was far more than expected, said Johannes Lehmann, the paper's lead author and professor of biogeochemistry.
• New TV show features healthy eating, local foods and N.Y. agriculture | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new television program, "From Farm to Table," airing in the Albany area but available online, is a collaboration between Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), WMHT Public Television in Troy, N.Y., and local farmers.
• Pilot program builds corps of 'green retirees' to serve as environmental stewards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Take a burgeoning cohort of retirees with time who want to be useful and a host of pressing environmental problems. Add a dash of training and support. The result: a volunteer corps of retirees with the skills needed to tackle environmental threats.
• Mabaya wins 'best paper' at annual African conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Edward Mabaya, senior research associate in the Emerging Markets Program of the Department of Applied Economics and Management in CALS, was awarded the prize at the annual gathering of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa.
• Soil scientists Cherney, Cox and Hobbs receive awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell soil scientists Jerome H. Cherney, William J. Cox and Peter R. Hobbs received awards at the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America annual meeting in early October, for their "outstanding contributions" to crop science.
• A chat with Alice Pell, Cornell's new vice provost for international relations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Alice Pell, professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, took over as vice provost for international relations July 1.
• Cornell global expert offers clues to why grinding poverty in Africa persists - and keeps rising | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  "We have this global picture of tremendous progress, and yet in sub-Saharan Africa [for example] we see tremendous stagnation," said Christopher Barrett, associate professor of AEM in a talk at the Cornell Club in Manhattan.
• Maple expert campaigns to boost state's lagging syrup production | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  If New York producers tapped the same ratio of maples in its forests as does Vermont (2 percent), annual New York syrup production revenues could rise to close to $50 million, up from an estimated $12.9 million, according to Cornell's Michael Farrell.
• Bob Foote, pioneer in livestock in vitro fertilization and reproduction, dies at 86 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
• Cornell food scientists awarded $1.67 million to improve fresh food safety | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  The grant, awarded by the USDA's National Integrated Food Safety Initiative, will allow the research team to examine all of the practices and procedures used by every component of the food industry.
• Got cattle? Cornell does, and trains students to prepare them for market | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In the course Animal Science 4700: Beef Cattle Merchandizing students learn how to merchandize cattle, which culminated in a sale of replacement beef heifers Oct. 25.
• Cornell launches Center for Comparative and Population Genomics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To highlight the growing importance of the study of genome variation and Cornell's expertise in the field, the university has launched the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics.
• Crop scientist Raymond Sheldrake dies at 85 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sheldrake, who developed (with colleague James Boodley) the soil-less horticultural mix known as Cornell peatlite, served on the faculty of Cornell's Department of Vegetable Crops from 1954 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1979.
• Cornell to continue as New York center for economic development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has been granted a three-year extension as the New York State Economic Development Administration (EDA) University Center to strengthen the capacity of local institutions in New York state to promote economic development.
• Maralyn Edid recognized for her 'innovative solutions to community issues' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Edid, senior extension associate for workforce, industry and economic development in ILR, has been selected for the 2008 David J. Allee and Paul R. Eberts Community and Economic Vitality Award from Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute.
• Butternut squash seed oil goes to market -- thanks to Cornell's Food Venture Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  What's a farmer to do with the pounds of waste generated when his butternut squash is processed? One New York farmer had the brainstorm to contact the New York State Food Venture Center (FVC) at Cornell.
• Climate change, aflatoxin and biochar: Sustainability center funds its first research projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF), founded in 2007, announced its inaugural Academic Venture Fund awards Oct. 17, funded by the center's 2008 budget of almost $3 million from alumni gifts.
• Engineering Dean Kent Fuchs named CU's 15th provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  W. Kent Fuchs, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell since 2002, will be the university's next provost, President David Skorton announced today. Fuchs will assume the office Jan. 1, 2009.
• Tata trust strengthens CU's ties to India, and to eminent alumnus, with $50 million endowment | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Ratan Tata '62, one of Cornell's most eminent alumni, is chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group. Tata was named one of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world by Barron's magazine last year.
• Gov. Paterson names Cornell to run new rural schools center during visit to Ithaca | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The goal of the center will be to work with the state and New York's 356 rural school districts (of which nearly half are considered high need). It's expected that the center will become a hub for services targeted to serve rural schools across New York.
• Los Alamos scientists to visit Cornell annually in new tie with Bethe House | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell and LANL officials signed a memorandum of understanding creating "an ongoing and productive relationship between Los Alamos scientific staff and Cornell University faculty and student body.
• Michael Latham honored with public lecture in Malaysia | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Michael Latham, M.D., professor emeritus and graduate school professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell, was honored Oct. 7 with the Michael Latham Public Lecture at the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) meeting in Penang, Malaysia.
• Which grass is greener? Project identifies Northeast grasses that will fuel bioenergy era | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' (CALS) Bioenergy Feedstock Project is the only project of its kind devoted to exploring the many species of field grass that grow in the Northeast and their potential as sources for biofuels.
• Grad student Kevin McAvey starts foundation to reverse upstate New York 'brain drain' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Applied Economics and Management (AEM) graduate student Kevin McAvey has started a foundation to encourage college graduates to stay in upstate New York.
• Economic crisis is not fault of 'big, bad Wall Street' but everybody involved, say panelists | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/30/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Current Event series began he Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Current Event series began Sept. 25 in Call Auditorium, where students and faculty came to hear alumni talk about the mortgage crisis.
• Entomologist edits new book on sustainable pest control | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "Integration of Insect-Resistant Genetically Modified Crops Within IPM Programs," co-edited by Anthony Shelton, informs the debate about using genetically modified (GM) or transgenic crops to control pests.
• Andrew and Ann Tisch give $35 million for faculty recruitment and retention | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell trustee Andrew H. Tisch '71 and wife Ann are giving Cornell $35 million to establish the Tisch University Professorships, allowing the university to honor and retain current faculty members and recruit the most talented scholars and researchers.
• New Cornell drink with protein punch debuts at New York Farm Day in D.C. | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell food scientist David Barbano has developed technology to isolate protein and calcium from skim milk. From this can be produced juices or flavored-water drinks that are high in protein and calcium and low in carbohydrates and free of lactose.
• Higher yield, cheaper rice-growing method slowly taking root in Africa, says Norman Uphoff | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Norman Uphoff, Cornell professor emeritus, described the many grass-roots System of Rice Intensification (SRI) experimentation efforts in Africa at a Sept. 18 seminar, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for African Development.
• Campus going greener than expected, with new goal of reducing carbon emissions by one-third by 2010 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has calculated how much carbon it emits. The inventory reveals that the university expects to reduce its central utilities emissions by almost one-third by 2010- exceeding its goal of being 7% below 1990 carbon emission levels by 2012.
• Conference promotes podcars for 'personal rapid transit' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  PRT enthusiasts from as near as EcoVillage on West Hill and as far away as Sweden and Brazil converged on Statler Hall, Sept. 14-16, for the Second Annual Sustainable Transportation Conference.
• CU faculty can now work with regional ecosystem unit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has been accepted as a member of the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GLNF CESU).
• World's first synthetic tree is no giant redwood, but may lead to technologies for heat transfer, soil remediation | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Abraham Stroock and graduate student Tobias Wheeler have created a "tree" that simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
  
• 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.
• Behavioral ecology conference offers special pricing for Cornellians | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Register by Aug. 1 at the ISBE Web site, http://www.isbe2008cornell.org/program_talk.php.
• Onondaga Nation students get hands-on dairy tour | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  About 25 children from the Onondaga Nation School got a taste of how milk goes from cow to carton in a tour of Cornell's Dairy Plant. Carl Batt, Cornell professor of food science, who organized the event has been visiting the Onondaga Nation for 7 years.
• Richard Durst to head Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Richard A. Durst, professor emeritus of chemistry in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NYSAES in Geneva, N.Y., and adjunct Cornell professor in the BEE department, was elected president of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.
• Upward Bound preps 50 regional high schoolers for college | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Upward Bound, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, brings high school students to universities to give them academic support with an emphasis on college preparation.
• Children are hurt by chaos at home, says trio of professors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/28/2008 Chronicle feature
  Historically, U.S. children have experienced chaos for decades due to the nation's high rates of migration, poverty, and maternal and child mortality.
• Cornell experts participate in Empire Farm Days, Aug. 5-7 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences welcomes the public to its annual Empire Farm Days, the largest outdoor agricultural fair in the Northeast, to be held Aug. 5-7 at Rodman Lott and Son Farms, Route 414 in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
• Cornell transfer program expands to community colleges | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To expand Cornell's Pathway to Success Community College Partnership program, which helps community college students transfer to top four-year institutions, the university is adding three new colleges, all located in the New York City area, as partners.
• Geneva experiment station helps N.Y. fight plum pox virus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Last year 16 trees in New York state tested positive for PPV. As a result, 26 acres of orchard were destroyed. Yet there is hope that, through stringent surveying and identification efforts, PPV can be eradicated from New York.
• Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Genetic analysis reveals an evolutionary trend for milkweed plants away from resisting predators to putting more effort into repairing themselves faster than caterpillars -- particularly the monarch butterfly caterpillar -- can eat them.
• Cornell-initiated course promotes rice expertise for the developing world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A course at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, seeks to encourage some of the world's brightest young scientists to consider careers bridging research with applications in developing nations.
• Paul Curtis honored with extension's Award of Excellence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Paul Curtis, associate professor of natural resources, is the recipient of the 2007 Award of Excellence from the Northeast Extension Directors for leadership and innovation for his contributions to the Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management.
• Chemicals from fires may increase risk of breast cancer in women firefighters | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Firefighters can be exposed to toxic chemicals every time they respond to a call. Many of those chemicals are known to increase the risk of breast cancer, report two Cornell researchers.
• Mann Library upgrades ag 'library in a box' for world's poorest countries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Mann Library has just issued an upgraded version of the digital database of journal articles that includes the last 15 years or so of most journals and such features as advanced searches, browsing, saving and indexing.
• Cornell launches Center for Teaching Excellence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has launched the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) as of July 1. The new center will work to strengthen teaching across campus in a multitude of ways.
• Clinton praises CU green energy initiative but declines skateboard trial | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The senator stopped by Syracuse's City Hall July 2 for an alternative energy forum that featured exhibits by Comet, e2e, the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative (CURBI), and a dozen regional companies and partnerships.
• Cornell's Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Project Budbreak, created by David Weinstein, a Cornell senior research associate in natural resources, uses the power of citizen scientists to gather wide-ranging data about how climate change is affecting plant life.
• Milk goes green: Cows fed biotech product reduce agriculture's environmental impact | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed. But cows that receive a biotech product called rbST give more milk, easing natural resource pressure and reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell study.
• Quagga mussels threaten western U.S. water and electric plants, Cornell expert tells legislators | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Chuck O'Neill, a senior extension associate with Cornell and New York Sea Grant, discussed the economic and infrastructure impacts of both zebra (Dreissena polymopha) and quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) at the U.S. House of Representatives, June 24.
• In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures for better fuel cells and microchips | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/26/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes.
• Washington gives Cornell $2 million to enlist kids to find missing ladybugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Lost Ladybug Project is intended to help scientists better understand why some species of ladybugs have become extremely rare while other species have greatly increased both their numbers and range.
• Agriculture's impact far more than economic, study says | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  Agriculture improves quality of life by preserving open spaces for wildlife and bucolic views, providing a buffer to development and offering recreational access and a local source of fresh food, while preserving a highly valued heritage and traditions.
• Noted economist and scholar Alan Mathios named dean of College of Human Ecology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Professor Alan Mathios, who has been serving as interim dean of the College of Human Ecology since July 2007, has been appointed the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology for a five-year term, beginning July 1.
• President Skorton announces formation of Provost Search Committee and names interim provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy Martha Haynes will chair the Provost Search Committe, and Deputy Provost David Harris will serve as interim provost during the transition starting Sept. 1.
• Meeting to consider tree planting as antidote to urban ills is uprooted by 'inconvenient conclusion' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/11/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Tom Whitlow, a researcher in Cornell's Urban Horticulture Institute, has found that it might be disingenuous "to suggest that planting more trees might help a community's health" in a directly measurable way.
• Alice Pell named vice provost for international relations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Alice N. Pell, Cornell professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), has been named vice provost for international relations, effective July 1. She has been director of CIIFAD since 2005.
• Faculty Institute for Diversity members take on task of diversifying curricula | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity met June 1-4 at a conference, organized by Cornell's Center for Learning and Teaching and the University Diversity Council, to focus on how faculty can incorporate elements of diversity into courses by fall 2010
• ISS fellowships free some of Cornell's top social scientists to pursue their research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell is hosting 11 faculty fellows as part of its new in-residence program. The faculty members will will be free to pursue their research, free from teaching and most departmental duties.
• Skorton extols Cornell's banner year in State of the University speech | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  While Cornell continues to be a world-renowned "powerhouse in science and in technology and in engineering," the university "also excels and is a model of the centrality of the humanities and the arts in a research university," he said.
• Cornell online videos tell young women to avoid certain cosmetics and plastics that may increase breast-cancer risk | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To explain to young women why these everyday products should be avoided, Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) has produced and posted three short online videos.
• New study shows that transgenic plants don't hurt beneficial bugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/03/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Genetically modified (GM) plants that use Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests won't harm the pests' natural enemies, according to new research by Cornell entomologists.
• Each $1 in New York state's nutrition education program reaps $10 benefit, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  For every dollar invested in teaching low-income adults in New York state about healthy food choices, the benefit is about $10 in reduced health-care costs and improved productivity, finds a new Cornell study.
• Pimentel receives honorary doctorate from University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture at Cornell, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• Provost Biddy Martin named chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, provost of Cornell University since 2000, today was recommended as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university's Board of Regents is expected to act on the appointment in June.
• Cornell faculty to confer on troubled waters in Greece | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
• Got a bug on a shrub? New Web site can help Northeasterners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Web site, at http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/aes_ornamental.asp, provides easy-to-read fact sheets with such information as range maps, photos of pests, the damage they cause and life-cycle charts.
• Cornell and state officials break ground on $80.5 million animal health diagnostic center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The center, a partnership between the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and the veterinary college, is designed to improve the health of food- and fiber-producing animals, companion animals, exotic animals and wildlife.
• Campus more diverse than decade ago, but challenges remain, vice provost reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has made significant strides in the past decade in attracting, hiring and retaining women and minorities, reported Robert L. Harris Jr., vice provost for diversity and faculty development, in his ninth and final report on the university's progress
• On issues of energy, environment and climate, Cornell experts say they have a leading role to play | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  At a daylong conference in the Statler Hotel on May 7, Cornell researchers and community leaders discussed establishing applied research and extension priorities for the coming year.
• Terence Bates receives New York Wine and Grape Foundation Research Award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Terence Bates, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Horticultural Sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, recently received the award for "major contributions in research and education."
• Watt Webb 80th birthday symposium to explore future research June 16 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  A symposium honoring the co-inventor of such breakthrough imaging technologies as multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Kavli Lecture and Henri Sack Memorial Lecture.
• Merrill Scholars honor influential high school, CU teachers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program will honor 36 seniors this week and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
• Opperman receives community 'Award for Excellence' for enhancing local quality of life | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/20/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman received the Tompkins County Foundation Award for Excellence for her contributions toward improving the quality of life for the Tompkins County community through her active and ongoing volunteerism.
• Acre-sized art installation uses grass as canvas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  What strikes instructor Marcia Eames-Sheavly about her class's "Turfwork!" creation, nestled into a field next to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, is "the beautiful simplicity of the design.
• Students can major in art and science of vines and wines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) can start majoring in viticulture and enology in the fall.
• Cornell Perspective: Why new U.S. biofuel legislation is on track to waste billions of tax dollars, while subsidizing oil consumption | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  New U.S. energy legislation mandates the use of renewable fuel but calls for continuing current biofuel subsidies that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
• 'Farm kid from Wisconsin' fights bugs with bugs and oversees $5 million for research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Mike Hoffmann, Cornell professor of entomology and director of Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) is creating a "culture of sustainability" for the station's facilities and employees.
• New York City feeding ministries keep the faith by dropping fatty foods and shaking it up | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For eight weeks, 23 members of 10 feeding ministries learned about nutrition, how to make healthier food choices and modify recipes for soup kitchens, food pantries, community kitchens and congregations through CUCE-NYC's pilot Kitchens of Faith program.
• Warren Allmon named Cornell's first Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2008 Chronicle Feature
  The Cornell Board of Trustees has named paleobiologist Warren Allmon the first Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology in Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
• A tree grows in White Plains: Blight-resistant chestnut honors Ezra Cornell and launches CCE White Plains project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  A 12-foot blight-resistant American chestnut tree has been planted in honor of Ezra Cornell in White Plains, N.Y., about 30 miles from his birthplace, to launch a new project to help restore the American chestnut tree to New York state.t
• Mother's Day special: With straw and plastic, a one-acre flower is 'painted' for sky viewers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  On May 11, a group of Cornell students will unveil a temporary artwork titled "Turfwork!," intended to be viewed from the air.
• First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/24/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell researchers have looked at soil's organic carbon at a scale of 50 nanometers (1 nanometer equals the width of three silicon atoms).
• Manhattan extension training is a walk in the park -- with science and hands-on classes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/28/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Launched Jan. 30 and running through June 4, the CPC-funded Urban Horticulture and Ecology Training program brings expert instructors from various Cornell Cooperative Extension offices in the New York City.
• Lab of O helps protect endangered right whales with warning buoys in shipping lanes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/22/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Endangered North Atlantic right whales are safer along some busy shipping lanes this spring. A new system of smart buoys recognizes whales' distinctive calls and routes the information to a public Web site and a marine warning system
• Effective climate change strategies call for new rules in global politics and economics | news release | 04/21/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  To combat global warming, we'll need to change the rules that underlay the global economy, transform global energy and allot carbon emissions much more fairly across the globe, said Timothy Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation and Better World Fund.
• Discovery by CU scientist shows that shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl has chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed.
• College announces plans for on-campus teaching winery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell has announced plans to launch a 2,400-square-foot teaching winery at the Cornell Orchards this fall to enhance the education of tomorrow's enologists and viticulturists.
• 2008 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture: The New "New International Economic Order" | news release | Thu 04/17/2008 04:30pm
  
  Timothy E.Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund, Former U.S. Congressman, Senator, and Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
• Cornell helps Indian marketing experts boost their country's fledgling food industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  To help food retailers and manufacturers in India , two food marketing experts in Cornell's Food Industry Management Program presented a five-day executive development program in India, Jan. 28-Feb. 1.
• A 'gold rush' of international food manufacturers and retailers has led to growing pains in India | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2008 Chronicle Feature
  With its rapid growth, emerging middle class and democratic government, India has become a leading target market for international food manufacturers and retailers.
• Gates Foundation awards Cornell $26.8 million to lead global fight against deadly wheat plague | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has been awarded a $26.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a broad-based global partnership to combat stem rust, a deadly wheat disease that poses a serious threat to global food security.
• Stem rust, a biblical wheat plague, now threatens consumers on a global scale | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Black stem rust fungus has emerged in a virulent new form for which 90 percent of the world's wheat varieties have no resistance. Spores of this new strain, known as Ug99, are now riding winds and blasting wheat fields from Uganda to Yemen.
• Birders help the Great Backyard Bird Count set records | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  This year's GBBC, which is sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, received more than 85,700 checklists, surpassing last year's record by several thousand, with record identifications of 635 species.
• Sustainability isn't just about climate change, and answers aren't all in technology, engineering conference concludes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability was the theme of the 25th annual conference of the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association, held March 28-29 in Statler Hall.
• Retirees on the move are 'grey gold' and a bit of the blues for rural towns, Cornell research finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  Older people who retire to rural destinations are sometimes called "grey gold" because of the boon they are to the local economies. Two Cornell Researchers have found they can also drive up housing prices and cause other negative effects on communities.
• Population geneticist Scott Williamson dies at 32 | Cornell Chronicle feature | Scott Williamson obituary
  
  Scott Williamson, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell, died March 14 from a brain cancer called glioblastoma.
• Maple weekends could be two months earlier by 2080, say Cornell researchers undertaking new study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  This year, Maple Weekend is March 29-30 since weather patterns are providing good sap flow in the maple trees of northern New York. But by 2080, sugarhouses in northern New York may be humming as early as Jan. 29-30.
• New course on best practices for social change will study how Davids conquer Goliaths | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell will offer a new course in fall 2008 that focuses on best practices for social change: Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Problem Solvers (Applied Economics and Management 366).
• Cornell food processing expert Don Downing dies at 76 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Donald L. Downing, professor emeritus of food processing at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., died Feb. 29.
• DiTommaso reaps teaching award from weed society | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell associate professor of crop and soil science, has been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Teacher Award from the Weed Science Society of America.
• Skorton shares stage with Bill Clinton to offer four-step plan for economic activism | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Speaking at Tulane University on March 15, Cornell President David Skorton provided an outline for how universities can make a difference through committed action, and he presented a four-step program for economic activism.
• Einaudi Center grants fund research on African nutrition, Egyptian cinema and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants for 2008.
• 'Think statewide, act locally' is Cooperative Extension's focus for 2008 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In her State of Extension Address March 13, Director Helene Dillard highlighted new Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) activities.
• Plant pathologist William Fry elected Cornell faculty dean | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  On a sabbatical leave in South Africa, William Fry learned this week that Cornell's faculty has elected him as its new dean. Fry, a professor of plant pathology, is conducting research on a plant pathogen that causes potato late blight.
• Cornell partners with Indian university to offer innovative degree in food science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The world's food supply will be a little safer after students graduate from a dual degree program in food science now offered by Cornell and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in India.
• Cornell researchers win $3.7 million in grants to help create vibrant New York agricultural future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  The New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI), a state-supported nonprofit corporation, has awarded $3.7 million in grants to researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and Cornell Cooperative Extension.
• 'Dark fiber' will give Geneva serious bandwidth | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  With a new "dark fiber" pipe, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva will for the first time have a high-bandwidth data connection to the Ithaca campus, and Cornell will have backup access to nationwide research networks.
• Provost promotes a 'competitive' Cornell that defines its research and education values on its own terms | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell is striving to remain competitive among its peer institutions, with beefed up financial-aid packages, but government pressure to support more of this aid from the university's endowment can take a toll on investments into research and teaching.
• Supercomputing essential for 'cyberscholarship' future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/08 Scientific Computing web page
• Ray Wu, Cornell's acclaimed pioneer of genetic engineering and developer of high-yielding, hardy rice, dies at 79 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2008 Wu Obituary
  
  Ray J. Wu, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, who was widely recognized as one of the fathers of plant genetic engineering, died at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca Feb. 10. He was 79.
• Cornell, Columbia collaborate on workshop for fledgling companies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell will partner with the Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management to help six promising technologies get a boost toward commercialization at a March 2008 Pre-Seed workshop in New York City.
• Why the French don't get fat: They know when to stop eating, finds CU's Wansink | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  Why don't the French get as fat as Americans? Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study.
• A fruit a day may keep Alzheimer's at bay, suggests new Cornell study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  Eating more apples, bananas and oranges just may help stave off such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, suggests a new Cornell study published online in the Journal of Food Science.
• Kent Loeffler's photographs of tiny fungi tower in exhibit 'Miniature Landscapes' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Photographer Kent Loeffler of Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology tramped through woods and crawled on many a forest floor to find and capture the mushrooms and slime molds on display in the Mann gallery through Feb. 27
• Pinstrup-Andersen pioneers a program to take issues of hunger and poverty to their global grassroots | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By posting course materials online and teaching workshops around the world on how to use them using a social entrepeneurial approach, a Cornell course may help to alleviate some of the world's hunger and poverty.
• Students see firsthand how Asia is developing its first genetically engineered food crop | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers in plant breeding, entomology and molecular biology are working closely with Sathguru Management Consultants of India to develop new genetically enhanced eggplant that is more resistant to attack from the fruit and shoot borer.
• Cornell social activist Don Barr dies at age 72 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/28/2008 Barr Obituary
• Faculty panel united by 'the good fight' at Big Apple discussion | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  Seven of Cornell's brightest scholars tackled topics ranging from global politics and crises in health, food and economics, to Cornell's international and intellectual missions at the 'Big Red in the Big Apple' event.
• Promoting local foods is paying off, CU research shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/22/08 Chronicle feature
  In northern New York, more food is going directly from farm to consumer, cutting out the middleman and saving thousands of miles in food shipments.
• Web site hosts gardeners' ratings on veggie varieties | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/21/08 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners Web site not only allows gardeners to read about thousands of vegetable varieties but also to rate and review varieties.
• Genetic discovery can boost the provitamin A content of Africa's maize | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new discovery, spearheaded by Cornell and University of Illinois plant geneticists and published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Science, could lead to tripling the provitamin A levels in Africa's maize.
• Developing biofuels in a sustainable way is essential for U.S. economy, note researchers at Cornell symposium | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 12/21/07 Chronicle feature
  Sponsored and hosted by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), the symposium sought to address "cost-effective environmentally responsible solutions for meeting energy demands."
• Cornell team shows how Tompkins County can cut its 'carbon footprint' by two-thirds | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 12/04/07 Chronicle feature
  Cornell professors have joined with a team of Northeast regional experts to tackle global warming on a local level, creating blueprints for communities like Tompkins County to identify and reduce their "carbon footprint."
• $400,000 NSF grant will aid sharing of raw research data | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  Mann Library has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to make sharing digital data among researchers easier. Cornell librarians will develop a set of services and electronic tools.
• Computational biologists use evolution-tracking method to discover 300 new human genes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/15/07 Cornell Chronicle feature
• Cornell microbiologist David Russell elected AAAS fellow | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/01/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell molecular microbiologist David G. Russell was among 471 other researchers nationwide elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, in honor of his distinguished contributions to his profession.
• Plants, from pennycress to willow, have potential to clean up polluted soils, researchers are finding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/30/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  In many places, the soil has high concentrations of organic toxins and heavy metals from smelting, manufacturing and other industrial processes as well as the burning of fossil fuels.
• Researchers discover hormone that may lead to safe treatment for high blood pressure | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/31/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Researchers at Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) have used a new technique and identified a hormone from human urine -- a xanthurenic-acid derivative -- that seems able to control sodium levels and treat hypertension.
• Cornell researchers identify natural herbicide that controls weeds around some common lawn grasses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Certain varieties of common fescue lawn grass come equipped with their own natural broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits the growth of weeds and other plants around them.
• How old trees and ancient wood are helping rewrite history explained by tree-ring lab directormon lawn grasses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood.
• Profits, not poaching, is message Cornell food scientists are aiming at Zambian farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  In an effort to improve lives and at the same time save African wildlife, Cornell researchers are helping farmers in Zambia, Southern Africa, develop such products as peanut butter and tofu under the It's Wild! brand name.
• Elusive agent that triggers immune response in plants is finally uncovered by BTI researchers at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/04/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the Cornell campus have identified methyl salicylate, an aspirin-like compound that alerts a plant's immune system to shift into high gear.
• Cornell will support University of Ghana to train African plant breeders to confront indigenous problems | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/20/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  In its latest venture in Africa, Cornell will support a new doctoral program at the University of Ghana to train African plant breeders to tackle issues relating to maize, cassava, sorghum, millet, tomato, cowpea and other crops vital to Africans' diet.
• Cornell helps develop pest-resistant eggplant, the first genetically modified food crop in South Asia | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers and Sathguru Management Consultants have successfully led an international consortium through the first phase of developing a pest-resistant eggplant.
• With car-deer collisions on the rise, how to get rid of road kill? Cornell spearheads a $25 solution -- composting | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/13/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell scientists have teamed up with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to test a promising and effective new method of disposal: composting.
• CU to offer its first degree program in Africa, with faculty traveling to Ethiopia to teach water management course | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/12/07 Chronicle feature
  
  In its self-described role as the land-grant university to the world, Cornell has taken a major step in exporting its expertise to African countries: It is about to offer its first degree program in Africa.
• Cornell entomologists to be featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Sept. 9 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/06/07 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's John Losey, associate professor of entomology, will tout the positive economic impact of insects and Linda Rayor, senior research associate in entomology, will discuss the benefits of spiders.
• CU food scientists keep watch over New York dairy foods | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/07 Chronicle feature
  
  The Food Science Dairy Extension Program, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, works with every segment of the dairy industry.
• Studying grass for energy needs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/06/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Watching grass grow becomes critical in hunt for new biofuels
• New York MarketMaker Web site links farms and businesses across the state | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Small, specialized agricultural producers and marketers in New York state now can find one another with just a few clicks, thanks to an interactive Web service spearheaded by Cornell Cooperative Extension/New York City (CCE/NYC).
• Cornell's greenhouses: Hundreds of plant projects, each with a different purpose | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/30/2007 Chronicle feature
  Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) recently assumed responsibility for greenhouses.
• Aluminum toxicity | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/30/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers clone aluminum-tolerance gene in sorghum, promising boost to crop yields in developing world
• Researchers propose new molecule to explain circadian clock | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/27/07 Chronicle feature
  
  The internal clock in living beings that regulates sleeping and waking patterns -- usually called the circadian clock -- has often befuddled scientists due to its mysterious time delays.
• Today's white rice is mutation spread by early farmers, researchers say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/16/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice is derived from a mutation (a deletion of DNA) in a single gene originating in the Japonica subspecies of rice.
• Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/02/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, wh
• Cutting Anemia in Half in Poor Countries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Nutritional supplement cuts anemia in poor children by half
• Assessing levies for accidental by-catch, say researchers, could generate money to protect threatened species | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/18/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened.
• Why honeybees are promiscuous | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/19/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  An answer to the mystery of wanton queen honeybees: Promiscuity produces more productive colonies
• Plant pathogen outwits tomato defenses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/18/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  An arms race is under way in the plant world.
• Emission choices lead to starkly different futures for Northeast agriculture, says CU expert at briefing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/11/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Farmers will be the first to feel the heat from global warming as they grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and other sobering challenges that could strain family farms to the limit
• Cornell Theory Center is now Cornell Center for Advanced Computing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/07/07 Cornell Chronicle feature
• Cornell hosts New York summit on renewable energy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/29/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Amid growing concerns about climate change and U.S. dependence on foreign energy, leaders from industry, government and science gathered at Cornell June 24-26 for the 2007 New York Renewable Energy Summit, the third annual conference focused on renewable
• Cornell hosts team of researchers and executives to develop test to guide treatment for HIV/AIDS in developing world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/27/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  In what is believed to be an unprecedented partnership between academia and industry, an international group of collaborators met for the first time at Cornell, June 25-26
• New rice course in Philippines attracts host of CU students and is co-taught by Professor Susan McCouch | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  
• Maker of sour power cherry drink developed with Cornell food scientists gets $2.3 million in venture funding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 6/20/07 hronicle feature
  CherryPharm Inc., a start-up company that sells an all-natural, tart cherry sports drink developed in conjunction with Cornell food scientists, has received $2.3 million from the Cayuga Venture Fund (CVF). With this investment, CherryPharm will expand its
• On-farm research shows farmers can use less nitrogen to save money and reduce environmental impact | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Ongoing field trials since 2002 by a team that includes 16 farmers, Cornell researchers and Cornell Cooperative Extension field crops educators in 10 counties are showing the value of on-farm research.
• $2.5 million federal awards will enable Cornell scientist David Soderlund to assess health risks of two classes of insecticides | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2007 Chronicle Feature
  
  The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Cornell insecticide toxicologist David Soderlund two grants, providing more than $2.5 million over five years, to study how insecticides affect human health.
• Computer modeling could help chlorine-hungry bacteria break down toxic waste | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/14/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers hope to learn how certain bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then to make them more effective in cleaning up toxic wastes.
• CU researchers' discovery of what makes some cauliflower orange could lead to more nutritious staple crops | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/01/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Now, Cornell researchers have identified the genetic mutation behind the unusual hue. The finding may lead to more nutritious staple crops, including maize, potato, rice, sorghum and wheat.
• Getting the word out: Babies are born to be breastfed | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/01/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  The evaluation shows that this kind of community intervention can create a social environment that is more supportive for breastfeeding.
• Cornell institute launches publications and programs to foster community development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  To help rural community leaders maintain services and establish new ones in the face of shrinking tax bases and limited infrastructures, Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) has issued new publications.
• Cornell researchers confirm that deadly fish virus has spread to 19 species, threatening sport-fishing industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/17/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), which causes anemia and hemorrhaging in fish, has now been identified in 19 species and poses a potential threat to New York's $1.2 billion sport-fishing industry.
• The small and elusive bed bug makes a comeback -- from Paris and Rome to New York City | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  After a 50-year hiatus, bed bugs are making a worldwide comeback, showing up in fancy hotels, hospitals, college dorms, schools and homes. In fact, bed bug complaints have jumped by 50 times over the last five years.
• Decimation of bee colonies has various causes, with parasites, pathogens and pesticides possible suspects, Cornell expert says | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Scientists are working hard to understand the sources of a staggering decline in honeybees in as many as 27 U.S. states and countries in Europe and Asia this winter, said Cornell associate professor of entomology Nicholas Calderone.
• For a 'green' lawn, focus on mowing, not early fertilizing, says CU turf specialist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/07/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  "The first step to minimize the environmental impact of your home lawn is to raise the mower's blade to a height of 3 to 4 inches - usually the highest setting on your mower - and leave the grass clippings on the lawn to recycle nutrients," says Petrovic.
• Cornell's supercomputers will crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/01/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  It calls for a supercomputer to pull together all the weather data from hundreds of sources every day, year round, then sorting out just the part needed by a farmer 35 miles east of Canton, N.Y.
• How the new world of climate change and disruption of nature is challenging the American spirit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  David Wolfe, professor of plant ecology in the Department of Horticulture, is a leading authority on the effects of climate change and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on plants, soils and ecosystems.
• New York's state insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle, rediscovered in eastern U.S. after 14 elusive years | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/17/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers believe that the rediscovery of New York state's official insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle (Coccinella novemnotata or C9), promises a brighter future for this rare species.
• New site shows forests aren't just timber: think mushrooms, ginseng and sugar | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/03/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  From understory to canopy, the millions of acres of forests that cover much of New York have untapped potential to provide popular products for consumers and generate additional income for landowners.
• A rarity among arachnids, predatory whip spiders have a sociable family life, CU researcher finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Whip spiders, considered by many to be creepy-crawly, are giving new meaning to the term touchy-feely. This is surprising behavior for these arachnids, long-thought to be purely aggressive and anti-social, according to a Cornell researcher.
• Smoke got in their eyes: Airline-cancer partnership to study effects of secondhand smoke in the workplace | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/07/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Until bans on in-flight smoking took effect in 1988, flight attendants and other airplane crew members were regularly subjected to secondhand smoke.
• Students put marketing and management skills to work for Kenya's seed industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/27/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  In early January, five Cornell students led by Edward T. Mabaya, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management, traveled to Kenya for an intense 10-day field study.
• Schumer tours Cornell's Technology Farm in Geneva | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/22/2007 Cornell Chronical news release
  
  U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer toured Cornell's Agriculture and Food Technology Park in Geneva Feb. 22, where he discussed new research in grape genomics and pitched a plan to improve education in math and science nationwide.
• Warming climate, cod collapse, have combined to cause rapid North Atlantic ecosystem changes, says Cornell oceanographer | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/22/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina, are experiencing large, rapid changes, reports a Cornell oceanographer in the Feb. 23 issue of Science.
• When fish become extinct, the cycling of critical nutrients in ecosystems changes, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2007 Cornell Chronicle feature
  
  Ecosystems are such intricate webs of connections that few studies have been able to explore exactly what happens when a species dies out.
• While global warming is fatal to many reefs, some corals are able to fight the heat, Cornell researcher reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival, according to Drew Harvell, Cornell professor
• Cornell students investigate how ancient Indian gardens thrived in arid conditions | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Kathryn Gleason recently led a team of her graduate students on an excavation of the now-vanished gardens to probe into how the extensive Mughal- and Rajput-era gardens that once graced the fort's palaces thrived in such arid conditions.
• Cornell and BTI receive $1.8 million from National Science Foundation to continue tomato sequence project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/30/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  An international project led by Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell has received $1.8 million from the NSF to continue sequencing the tomato genome and to create a database of genomic sequences and information.
• Come spring, expect fewer blooms, due to mild early winter, say Cornell horticulturists | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/29/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  With record warmth throughout the Northeast in December and early January, gardeners and commercial growers are asking:
• CU and local transportation officials adopt biodiesel fuel | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell vehicles and city and county fleets will get a little cleaner this summer, thanks to an agreement with roots in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
• Researcher to use $10 million grant to revamp Cornell labs to advance cellulose-to-biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/18/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  The grant will be used to renovate laboratories in Riley Robb Hall and to purchase fermenters, incubators and state-of-the-art analytical equipment.
• Sudden, deep cold snap could be lethal to some Finger Lakes grape varieties, Cornell experts say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Finger Lakes sybarites love to romance their regional vintages, but the reality is that grape growing is crop farming, and crop farming is largely weather dependent.
• NYS Agricultural Experiment Station turns 125 as Cornell celebrates Ezra Cornell's 200th birthday | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/04/07 Chronicle feature
  
  NYSAES's milestone coincides with the 175th anniversary of the New York State Agricultural Society and the 200th birthday of Ezra Cornell, one of the two founders of Cornell University.
• Three Specialists to Join Cornell's Enology and Viticulture Program | NYSAES news release | 12/18/2006 NYSAES News Release
  Cornell University's Enology and Viticulture Program, the only such undergraduate major offered in the Eastern United States, is gaining three new faculty members.
• CU begins 'new era' in grape research in Lake Erie region | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  With more than $5 million of state funding, Cornell is poised to break ground on 53 acres of recently purchased land in Portland, N.Y., for a new laboratory to support innovative research and extension programs.
• Baby, it's warm outside: Boston aims to break its December average-temperature record | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  With above-average warmth throughout the Northeast, several cities in the region face top-10 warm Decembers, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC).
• Queen bees are not just being promiscuous, they are boosting the health of the hive, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/08/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs.
• Geneva's Susan Brown named first Cohn Professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Susan K. Brown, Cornell professor of horticultural sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, N.Y., has been named the first Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticultural Sciences.
• Cornell forms University Diversity Council to create a more inclusive campus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/08/2006 Chronicle Feature
  Cornell has announced the formation of a University Diversity Council (UDC) to deepen and reinvigorate the university's commitment to creating and sustaining an inclusive campus community.
• Getting at the many tangled webs of digital deception we seem hardwired to weave | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/15/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
• Cutting Down on 'Mindless Eating' is Focus of New Book | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/01/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The average person makes more than 200 food-related decisions every day, day in and day out -- yet isn't aware of 90 percent of them, says Cornell marketing professor Brian Wansink in his new book.
• From flytraps to spider-web pictures, Cooperative Extension teaches farmers alternatives to toxic pest control | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Cooperative Extension's (CCE) emphasis on outreach to a wide range of farmers is now bringing science-based expertise to one of New York's most traditional farm communities: Amish farm families in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.
• Cornell spreads the word about doubling rice yields and gets recognition in $1 million Alcan contest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/03/2006 news release
  A Cornell institute has shown that rice yields can be greatly increased through simple changes in how plants, soil, water and nutrients are managed.
• Freeville Organic Research Farm is now 'certified organic' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/03/2006 news release
  Cornell's Freeville Organic Research Farm is now an official, certified organic farm, adhering to standards set by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York.
• International Plant Management and Cornell University Release Two New Cherry Varieties | NYSAES news release | 10/10/2006 news release
  
  The cherry processing industry now have two new varieties to work with thanks to recent releases by Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES), and International Plant Management, Inc.
• Beach plum jam, anyone? Cornell develops line of crop plants away from the dunes to make sure you get your fill | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2006 news release
  
  It's harvest time at Cornell Orchards, and beach plums (Prunus maritima), commonly found on coastal dunes, are one of the newest fruits being harvested this year, thanks to an ambitious Cornell project to turn the unusual plant into a crop.
• Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Skorton to share stage at Weill Cornell Medical College, Sept. 26 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/19/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will speak to the Cornell community at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, Tuesday, Sept. 26. The talk, in the college's Uris Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., also will be shown live on Cornell's Ithaca campus.
• Teachers Go to Work at Cornell's Experiment Station | NYSAES news release | 09/07/2006 news release
  Area teachers endured a week of work at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva last month so students in classrooms across the Finger Lakes can adjust their focus, with or without a microscope.
• Agricultural engineers at Cornell help improve the water quality of Lake Ontario | NYSAES news release | 09/01/2006 news release
  
  Cornell researchers are collaborating with growers and environmental agencies in a project to protect the Lake Ontario watershed from pesticide run-off.
• Cornell testers choose Crowley Foods of Albany for best milk in New York | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/28/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program, based at Cornell and sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order. The analytical tests are run at Cornell.
• Sen. Clinton and Cornell help launch fund to aid New York's flood-devastated farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and the New York Farm Bureau Foundation for Agricultural Education Inc. providing feed and cash assistance to farmers in New York who were affected by the recent flooding.
• Sour power: Entrepreneur teams up with Cornell food scientists to create sports drink using tart cherries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2006 Chronicle feature | CherryPharm web site
  
  John Davey quit his job as a Wall Street banker to work with food scientists at Cornell University to create an all-natural, restorative sports drink using sour cherries. Now he's launched his own food company.
• Cornell pest-alert network helps link attacks to changing climates | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/28/2006 Chronicle feature
  A Cornell University "trap network," begun in 1994 to alert farmers when damaging pests are threatening 60,000 acres of sweet corn across New York state, could now help researchers track how these pests respond to changing climates.
• Cornell's farm vehicles just got greener and cleaner with use of biodiesel | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/27/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  To pump up enthusiasm for greener, cleaner fuel on the Cornell campus, Cornell's Farm Services' 20-plus vehicle fleet of trucks, tractors, a bulldozer, a backhoe and other farm equipment has been running on B20 biodiesel exclusively for more than a month.
• Welcome back black currants: Forbidden fruit making a comeback in New York | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/26/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The growing and importation of currants were banned in the United States for more than half a century because they were thought to help spread a virus that threatened the timber industry. Three years ago New York became the latest state to repeal the ban.
• Seven-year glitch: Cornell warns that Chinese GM cotton farmers are losing money due to 'secondary' pests | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for several years by saving on pesticides have now been eroded.
• Cornell plant scientists detect presence of plum pox virus -- disease of all stone fruits -- for first time in New York state | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/06 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell plant scientists, working with state and federal officials, have detected plum pox virus (PPV) for the first time in New York state on trees from an orchard in Niagara County.
• Cornell releases three new wine grape varieties | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/10/2006 news release
  
  Cornell officially debuted three new wine grapes today July 10, Noiret, Corot noir, and Valvin Muscat.
• Study probes how cow foot baths reduce crops and contribute to fields' copper loads | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/07/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Commonly used foot baths to prevent lameness in dairy cows may not only reduce crop yields but also contribute to the copper load in farm fields.
• Inadequate data are available to assess risk of sludge that is applied to land, CU study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/05/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Relying on existing lists of chemicals, such as priority pollutants, will not identify many chemicals of current concern," concluded Ellen Z. Harrison, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute at Cornell and the lead researcher of the study.
• Cornell Plantations and land trust partner to protect natural areas of Tompkins County | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 06/28/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Plantations and the Finger Lakes Land Trust are partnering to protect significant natural areas within Tompkins County. Cornell also has announced its commitment of $125,000 to the land trust to help buy land and fund conservation easements.
• Cornell Scientists Partner with Geneva Schools for Summer Science Camp | NYSAES news release | 06/26/2006 news release
  
  For the second year in a row, faculty from Cornell University are partnering with the Geneva City School District to put on a summer science day camp for third graders.
• IMF chief analyst Eswar S. Prasad appointed to Cornell's Tolani Senior Professorship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/27/2006 Chronicle feature
  Eswar S. Prasad, chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
• Historic mutant corn garden grows at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2006 news release
  
  To create a living maize chromosome map, a garden with 106 maize plants, each with a different type of mutation, has been planted at Cornell.
• National conference at Cornell explores land-grant mission in economic development | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 06/23/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Should the figurative "three-legged stool" of the land-grant university mission -- teaching, research and extension -- add a fourth leg, economic development?
• Nurseries to give big-city test to Cornell-cloned trees and tree-growing technique | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  New York City life is tough on trees. Compacted soil with high pH, low-hanging utility wires, an environment often hot and dry, and the city's harsh winters challenge a tree's survival and colorful foliage.
• American Society for Enology and Viticulture Tackles Asian Lady Beetles in Rochester, July 9-11 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2006 NYSAES news release
  
  The 31st annual American Society for Enology and Viticulture/Eastern Section (ASEV-ES) conference and symposium will be held July 9-11 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rochester, N.Y.
• Cornell acquires two more 'ecologically fragile' off-campus natural areas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/21/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Plantations has added two more natural areas to its just over 4,000 acres of biologically diverse and ecologically fragile natural areas.
• New York farmers visit Mexico to probe dairy workers' lives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 6/13/2006 news release
  
  In January 2007 up to 10 New York state dairy farmers will head to Mexico to help better understand Central American workers back home.
• Child soldiers coerced into military conflicts are barrier to peace process | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  As long as children continue to be coerced into militias -- as they are by the thousands in Colombia, Sudan and dozens of other countries -- peace talks in those countries to settle armed conflicts are unlikely, assert two Cornell University researchers.
• Tiny wasps help keep sweet corn worm-free and customers more satisfied | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/07/06 news release
  
  Clean sweet corn is not easy to grow, but organic and no- or low-spray growers are successfully dealing with potential pest infestations using tiny wasps so consumers won't find little worms when they husk their corn.
• Garden Mosaics takes root in South Africa to spread education and understanding through gardening | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/08/06 news release
  
  Garden Mosaics, a science education and outreach program based at Cornell University that has been thriving in more than two dozen cities around the country for several years, now has taken root internationally, most notably in South Africa.
• Sustainability task force recommends seed grant program to encourage collaborations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability problems are real, immediate, and answers must be found if we are to have a just and humane future on this planet," warns a report issued by the provost's Task Force on Sustainability in the Age of Development.
• Cornell Enters into an Alliance for Processed Apples with Cadbury Schweppes | news release | 05/17/2006 news release
  
  A new agreement will give Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages exclusive rights to new processing apple varieties for use in the development of premium Mott's products in exchange for their help in supporting Cornell's apple breeding program.
• Bearing Fruit: NYS Budget Provides Long-sought Funding for Fredonia and Other Geneva Experiment Station Projects | news release | 05/09/2006 news release
  
  The "growing" season arrived early for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station's (NYSAES) vineyard research programs when the legislature provided funding for several Cornell initiatives in the recently passed New York State budget.
• Wine and grape program at Cornell's Hudson Valley Laboratory receives $85K in NYS budget | news release | 05/09/2006 news release
  
  In the recently passed New York State budget, the legislature provided $85,000 for Cornell University's Hudson Valley Laboratory (HVL) in Highland, NY, to enhance wine and grape research and extension programs.
• Cornell's Fredonia Vineyard Laboratory Wins Grape and Wine Industry Award | news release | 05/05/2006 news release
  
  The New York Wine and Grape Foundation (NYWGF) presented its Research Award for major contributions in research and education to benefit the New York grape and wine industry to Cornell University's Vineyard Laboratory.
• Cornell Hosts Better Process Control School | news release | 05/05/2006 news release
  
  Cornell University will host a Better Process Control School (BPCS) May 8-11 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.
• National biotech meeting to be held at Cornell, June 12-14 | Cornell Cooperative Extension news release | 05/02/2006 news release
  
  The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC) will hold its 18th annual meeting at Cornell University, on the Ithaca and Geneva campuses, June 12-14.
• Inner-city teenagers, guests of Cornell Extension, camp out on historic Governors Island | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/25/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Pulling out from the Battery Maritime Building in downtown Manhattan, the ferry to Governors Island rose and fell on the waves with 24 inner-city teenagers on board.
• Cornell plans how to seed New York Harbor, planet's most urban estuary, with oyster reefs, wetlands, bird-nesting isles | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The Manhattan area has the most urban estuary on the planet. So imagine it with oyster reefs, shoreline wetlands in Harlem, public waterfront for small boats, bird-nesting islands and thriving populations of striped bass and flounder.
• How 10,000 bees decide where to go when they fly the coop -- decision-making to rival any department committee | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.
• Amazon.com' for vegetables helps gardeners pick and choose their varieties | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/05/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners Web site profiles more than 4,000 vegetable varieties, including nearly 600 tomatoes and 100 eggplants. Gardeners visiting the site can rate and review their favorites.
• Careful with that bug! It's helping deliver $57 billion a year to the U.S., new Cornell study reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2006 news release
  
  Insects are good for the economy. According to a new study co-authored by John Losey, the dollar value of some insect services is more than $57 billion a year in the United States.
• New federal grant aims to help Finger Lakes region become economic powerhouse | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/04/2006 news release
  
  The new project is made possible by a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Cornell partners with local industries to produce pesticide sprayers and 'biofurniture' to reduce air pollution | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/04/2006 news release
  
  Researchers at Cornell are recipients of the first round of seed money that promises to turn research discoveries into marketable products. Two examples: the world's first hand-held sprayer for concentrated pesticides and microbe-loaded "engineered biofur
• Cornell signs MOU with three British universities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/28/2006 news release
  
  Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with three British universities to cooperate on research focused on rural change and policy in North America and Europe.
• Sweet smell of success: Cornell aid could bring new line of maple products throughout New York state | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/31/2006 news release
  
  Give New Yorkers the opportunity to buy more state-produced maple products and New York maple-syrup producers could reap profits five times greater than what they make now.
• Why tipsy flowers don't tip over: Booze stunts stem and leaves, but doesn't affect blossoms, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/31/2006 news release
  
  Those paperwhites and other daffodils sure could use a drink -- a little whiskey, vodka, gin or tequila could keep them from falling over.
• Slow, insidious' soil erosion threatens human health and welfare as well as the environment, Cornell study asserts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
• Q&A: Larry Walker calls for 'Manhattan Project' for energy in biofuels | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/23/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  In his State of the Union speech last month, U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his commitment to funding research and development of alternative fuel sources.
• Cornell biogeochemist shows how reproducing the Amazon's black soil could increase fertility and reduce global warming | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground.
• If science can send rockets to Mars and Pluto, it can reduce world hunger and poverty, asserts Cornell food policy expert | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Applying science and technology to build a spacecraft that travels more than 10 times faster than a speeding bullet or a cell phone that fits in a matchbox are great achievements. But what about feeding the 800 million hungry people in the world?
• Is genetically modified food a risk or benefit? Americans are split but growing somewhat more skeptical, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  More than two-thirds of the food in U.S. markets has at least some amount of a crop that has been genetically engineered (GE). Do Americans believe that GE food is a health risk or benefit?
• Invasive wasp, Southern Hemisphere forest devastator, found to be 'well-established' in upstate New York | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Last year while sifting through insects from a trap from Fulton, N.Y, E. Richard Hoebeke, a Cornell University expert taxonomist, discovered a single specimen of an alien woodwasp that devastates conifers.
• Genetic engineering saved Hawaii's papaya industry -- so why aren't other countries following suit? | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/19/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Genetically engineered papaya that resists the devastating papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) has saved Hawaii's papaya industry. But efforts to grow PRSV-resistant papaya in developing countries are stalled, and researchers aren't sure why.
• NYAIC is Phenomenal Networking Source, Best Information Clearinghouse, Says Onion Jelly Maker Reaching Regional, National, Global Markets | news release | 02/15/2006 news release
  
  When the demand for a food gift created in her Franjo Farms kitchen grew way beyond family and friends, Allison Sacheli needed help adapting her onion jelly recipe for commercial production. That help came from the NY Ag Innovation Center (NYAIC).
• Cornell students take winter break and provide 'thousands of dollars' of advice and help to Tanzanian seed companies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The six-member team visited two seed companies, both in Arusha, a fast-growing hub for commerce and trade in northern Tanzania
• Proactive educator wins "Excellence in IPM" award | news release | 02/10/2006 news release
  Maire Ullrich, an educator in vegetable crops with Cornell Cooperative Extension in Orange County, has earned an "Excellence in IPM Award" from the New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program at Cornell University.
• Innovative apple grower George Lamont promotes least-risk strategies, wins IPM award | news release | 02/02/2006 news release
  His innovations-and his proactive work promoting best management practices to other growers-have earned Lamont an "Excellence in IPM Award" from the New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program at Cornell University.
• Kirkville farmer Jeff Kubecka joins pest patrol, wins IPM award | news release | 02/02/2006 news release
  Kubecka has earned an "Excellence in IPM Award" from the New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program at Cornell University for his proactive work in adopting and promoting IPM.
• Cornell professor launches professional society and journal with $750,000 grant from U.S. Department of Education | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  A new professional organization, the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), with its own peer-reviewed journal, is being launched by Cornell University professor Mark Constas
• Wanted by Cornell and USDA researchers: A natural enemy to curb two invasive, poisonous vines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  They've been here more than 100 years but have exploded in the last 10 to 15 years, and it will still be a minimum of 10 years before we can even release a natural enemy to control their growth," said Antonio DiTommaso, associate professor of weed science
• Rutz named director of NYS Integrated Pest Management program | Cornell Cooperative Extension news release | 01/23/2006 news release
  
  Donald A. Rutz, professor of veterinary entomology at Cornell University, has been appointed director of Cornell's New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program.
• Cornell geneticists improve methods for identifying what controls complex traits, from disease to crop yields | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/16/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell University researchers have improved a technique called association mapping that identifies the genetic origins of complex traits, from disease to crop yields to milk yields, controlled by multiple genes.
• Tony Shelton Receives Entomology Award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/09/2006 news release
  
  Anthony 'Tony' Shelton, Cornell University professor of entomology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY, received the 2005 Recognition Award of the Entomological Society of America (ESA).
• Mexicans are settling in upstate New York in record numbers but remain on the fringe of community life | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/05/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Mexican farmworkers and their families are settling in rural upstate New York communities in record numbers, but of the newcomers can't speak or understand English, and most are marginalized in their communities, finds a new Cornell University study.
• Shape of glass influences how much alcohol is poured -- and how much you will drink | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/23/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  When pouring liquor, even professional bartenders unintentionally pour 20 to 30 percent more into short, squat glasses than into tall, thin ones, according to a new Cornell University study.
• Cornell and India sign new agreement for agricultural development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/13/05 Chronicle feature
  
  Exchanging scientific information freely, forging cooperative research, hosting Indian executives, students and faculty, and sharing agricultural biotechnology to promote the development and use of drought- and pest-resistant crops.
• Cornell University Library receives second grant to support its Eastern Wine and Grape Archive | Cornell news release | 12/13/05 news release
  
  The Cornell University Library has received a $24,972 grant to continue work documenting the grape growing and winemaking industries in New York State.
• Cornell's Drinkwater and Wolf head up federal study on how responses to agricultural pollution target the problem | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/13/2005 Chronicle feature
  
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• N.Y. state awards Cornell's Walker $750,000 for biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Biological and environmental engineer Larry P. Walker of Cornell University has been awarded $750,000 by a New York state research agency.
• Biofortified, iron-rich rice improves the nutrition of women, study by Cornell researcher shows for the first time | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/29/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  In the first study to test people who eat foods that have been bred for higher-than-normal concentrations of micronutrients, researchers have confirmed that conventional plant breeding can affect human nutritional status.
• Cornell apple breeder honored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society | news release | 11/29/2005 news release
  
  The Jackson Dawson Memorial Medal was presented to Cornell scientist Susan Brown at an awards dinner held recently at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
• Cornell workshop in Geneva connects science with business | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/23/2005 news release
  
  A growing number of Cornell researchers today believe they have an idea for a start-up company. However, the marketplace requires more than a new product.
• Big portions influence overeating as much as taste, even when the food tastes lousy, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2005 news release
  
  According to a new Cornell University study, when moviegoers were served stale popcorn in big buckets, they ate 34 percent more than those given the same stale popcorn in medium-sized containers.
• Smithsonian Magazine names Jane Mt. Pleasant an 'innovator of our time' | Cornell news release | 11/01/2005 news release
  
  Agronomist Jane Mt. Pleasant joins the likes of Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, Andy Goldsworthy, Wes Jackson, Yo-Yo Ma and E.O. Wilson as one of "35 People Who Made a Difference in the World" in the November 2005 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.
• New book details weapons -- from froth to venom -- of insects and other bugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/31/05 news release
  
  Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and Other Many-Legged Creatures" by Cornell University's Thomas and Maria Eisner and Emory University's Melody Siegler is in equal parts handbook, field guide and photo album.
• Harvey Reissig named director of the Pesticide Management Education Program | Cornell news release | 10/24/05 news release
  
  Harvey Reissig, professor of entomology at the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has been named director of the Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP) for Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
• CU researchers get grant to find ways to prevent phosphorus pollution in New York City's third-largest reservoir | news release | 10/24/2005 news release
  
  The Cannonsville watershed in the Catskills region of New York state, one of nine reservoirs that provide drinking water to some 9 million people in and near New York City, is under attack from phosphorus runoff form urban and rural sources.
• Costly plant tumors are found by Cornell microbiologist to be result of soil bacterium 'smelling' and entering wound | Cornell news release | 10/19/2005 news release
  
  How does a wound in certain plants like roses and grapevines develop into a tumor? The answer appears to lie in a common soil bacterium that is able to
• Cornell Agroforestry Resource Center shows how forest owners can reap cash without harming the environment | Cornell news release | 10/18/2005 news release
  Got trees? Think that the only way to make some money from them is to cut some down for firewood or lumber? Think again.
• Cornell signs research agreement with Japan's genome research institute | Cornell news release | 10/18/2005 news release
  
  Officials from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan's largest agricultural research institute, signed a memorandum of understanding Oct. 10 to foster research collaborations with Cornell University.
• Cornell researchers receive $2 million federal grant for computational social sciences project using Web archive | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2005 news release
  A team of Cornell University researchers has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop advanced Web tools for social sciences research.
• Agricultural economists to hold 75th anniversary colloquium | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/04/05 news release
  The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a special colloquium Oct. 7-9 at Cornell University.
• Cornell tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to spearhead next green revolution | Cornell news release | 09/20/2005 Cornell News Release
  
  Awarded more than $8.2 million in federal funding over four years through the recent signing of the federal Transportation Bill, Cornell has been tapped by the federal government as one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence.
• Cornell tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to spearhead next green revolution | Cornell news release | 09/20/05 news release
  
  In a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices and concerns over global warming, Cornell University is helping to spearhead the next green revolution by using plants to produce energy, industrial chemicals and green materials.
• Olga Padilla-Zakour Promoted to Associate Professor at Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva | Cornell news release | 09/15/2005 news release
  
  Food scientist, Olga Padilla-Zakour, was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, NY.
• Mary Jo Dudley named new director of the Cornell Migrant Program | Cornell news release | 09/09/05 news release
  
  Mary Jo Dudley has been named director of the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP) and a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell University.
• Hoffmann named director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/12/05 news release
  
  Michael P. Hoffmann has been named associate dean of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) in Ithaca.
• Cornell publishes new guide for organic farmers | Cornell news release | 09/08/05 news release
  A new guidebook for organic growers -- "Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management" -- has just been released by Cornell University.
• Any field, any study? How about a major in grape growing and winemaking | Cornell news release | 09/08/05 news release
  
  The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University is offering new four-year undergraduate majors in viticulture (grape growing) and enology (winemaking).
• Cornell Web site will aid Gulf Coast recovery with precise geographic data | Cornell news release | 09/08/05 news release
  
  A Web site being developed at Cornell University will give reconstruction workers and researchers access to detailed information on the status of critical infrastructure in communities along the Mississippi coast.
• Cornell Veterinary College aids massive Louisiana animal rescue effort | Cornell news release | 09/07/05 news release
  
  Taking initiative to aid the animal rescue process, Cornell's Veterinary College has already sent supplies to Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge, La., which has been overwhelmed since the New Orleans flood.
• Cornell experts find two new species of crane fly have invaded New York, threatening lawns, golf courses and pastures | Cornell news release | 08/31/2005 news release
  
  Crane flies can cause panic in bedrooms at night when the adult flies emerge in September, looking like oversized mosquitoes with extra long legs. But they don't bite. That's the good news.
• Aphids, spider mites, thrips -- oh, my! Heat and dryness wilts vegetables but creates bumper crop of insect pests | Cornell news release | 08/31/05 news release
  
  The overall lack of rain and high temperatures in New York has created a bumper crop of aphids, spider mites and thrips -- along with harmful viruses that aphids can spread.
• Cornell program identifies New York State's top milk for 2005 | Cornell news release | 08/29/05 news release
  
  Stewart's Processing Company of Saratoga Springs has been named New York State's top milk for 2005, according to Cornell University's New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program.
• Nell Mondy, Cornell's international potato expert, dies at age 83 | Cornell news release | 08/30/05 news release
  
  Nell I. Mondy, 83, professor emerita of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, died Aug. 25 at Cayuga Medical Center.
• Cornell marine biologist's persistence leads to discovery of invasive sea squirts in vital Maine fishing grounds | Cornell news release | 08/30/2005 news release
  
  Thanks to the doggedness of a Cornell University marine biologist, researchers have discovered that one of Maine's most important fishing areas has been invaded by an alien tunicate, or sea squirt, that could threaten the commercial fishing industry there
• Cornell to turn over hydroponics greenhouse to Challenge Industries at Sept. 1 ceremony | Cornell news release | 08/22/05 news release
  
  Cornell University has licensed operation of its hydroponics greenhouse to Challenge Industries, providing jobs for more than a dozen workers with disabilities that present a handicap to employment.
• Tolani Professorship to strengthen Cornell's ties to India | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/08/2005 news release
  
  The Mumbai-based Tolani Shipping Co. Ltd. recently endowed the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the graduate alma mater of the company's chairman
• Cornell overeating study suggests that how much we eat depends more on external cues, such as portion size, than on biological signals | Cornell news release | 08/15/2005 news release
  
  If you binged for two weeks while on vacation and gained 5 pounds, would you be biologically primed to eat less to compensate and shake off the excess weight? No, suggests a new Cornell University study.
• Cornell projects in New York City will assess biofuels' availability and viability for everyday uses | Cornell news release | 07/19/2005 news release
  Two biofuel projects coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) with support from the Northeast SUN Grant Center for Excellence at Cornell University will begin this summer in New York City.
• Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds | Cornell news release | 7/13/05 news release
  
  Organic farming produces the same yields of corn and soybeans as does conventional farming, but uses 30 percent less energy, less water and no pesticides, a review of a 22-year farming trial study concludes.
• Cornell works to improve organic farming methods in a multitude of ways | news release | 07/13/2005 news release
  
  Cornell University, the land-grant institution of New York state, is increasingly devoting more of its resources to researching ways to improve all aspects of organic agriculture, including soil health, seed availability, dairy health and crop production.
• Cornell program seeks to train people to avoid black bear conflicts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/05 news release
  
  Since training wild bears isn't feasible, Cornell University researchers are targeting people with a pilot program that they hope will change habits that attract bears.
• Going for the green: Cornell has first | Cornell news release | 07/05/2005 news release
  
  Two new buildings at Cornell University are the first in central New York state and the first residence halls anywhere in the state to earn
• Cornell researcher offered grant funding to study mosquitoes that carry dengue fever | Cornell news release | 6/30/05 news release
  
  Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University, is a member of a global team of scientists working on devising and deploying novel genetic strategies to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
• Cornell Cooperative Extension works to prevent obesity in New Yorkers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/05 news release
  
  Eating healthfully to prevent obesity doesn't have to cost a bundle, say experts at Cornell University, the land-grant institution of New York state.
• Insects develop resistance to engineered crops when single- and double-gene altered plants are in proximity | Cornell news release | 06/17/05 news release
  
  Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all the insect-killing plants.
• The bigger the serving, the more young children will eat, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/15/05 news release
  
  By far, the most powerful predictor for how much children eat is how much food is put on their plate, concludes a new study by Cornell University researchers.
• English skills and presence of family help integrate immigrant farmworkers, New York state study at Cornell finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/13/05 news release
  
  A study of five agricultural communities in New York state finds that Mexican immigrants comprise 95 percent of the fruits-and-vegetables agricultural workforce and that workers increasingly are choosing to settle with their families in these rural commun
• Viburnum leaf beetles are back in Northeast, hungrier than ever | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/18/05 news release
  
  The eggs of the viburnum leaf beetle have hatched, and the larvae are beginning to chow down once again on viburnum shrubs in New York state and New England.
• Alien woodwasp that could threaten nation's pine trees found in Fulton County, N.Y., by Cornell researcher | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/05 news release
  
  Despite dozens of interceptions at U.S. ports, a public enemy has infiltrated the nation's borders.
• Turf grass professor receives EPA's Environmental Quality Award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/10/05 news release
  
  A. Martin Petrovic, professor of turf grass in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, is the winner of a 2005 Environmental Quality Award.
• CALS centennial year symposium features giants of innovation | Cornell news release | 4/21/05 news release
  
  The centennial year for Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will come to a close Friday, April 29, with
• CU study finds rural communities with small schools benefit greatly | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/05 news release
  
  A Cornell study shows that on almost every indicator of economic and social well-being, rural communities with their own schools fare significantly better than rural communities that no longer have schools.
• Cornell researcher strives to break the link between obesity and diabetes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Assistant professor of nutrition Ling Qi is looking at two mechanisms that could potentially impact obesity and diabetes: the endoplasmic-reticulum stress response, which affects the expression of proteins, and the inflammation status of fat tissues.
• The time is ripe for an apple that tastes like berries and one that doesn't brown | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  At the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, N.Y. , these apples already exist and new possibilities are literally endless.
• The world neglect of hunger is 'immoral and appalling' and feeds terrorism, says Cornell expert | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action, according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger.
• Cornell signs pact with Paris institution on environmental research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/08/2006 Chronicle feature
  Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with École Normale Supérieure in Paris to facilitate academic exchange and to support collaborative research activities related to environmental issues.