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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.
• Got bird questions? New book has the answers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Drawing on puzzlers she has fielded over a lifetime of bird study, Cornell Lab science editor Laura Erickson has compiled answers to more than 200 bird questions in "The Bird Watching Answer Book".
• Resonating feathers produce courtship song in rare bird, researchers report | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers have proven that the club-winged manakin's feathers resonate at a particular frequency to create a tone. The adaptation is a striking example of a species modifying an essential body part for the purpose of attracting a mate.
• 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.
• Cornell researchers identify weak link in cancer cell armor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  It has long been known that the so-called p53 gene suppresses tumors, but new research at the College of Veterinary Medicine shows that inhibiting a second gene (Hus1) is lethal to cells with p53 mutations.
• 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.
• Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life, study shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Professor Jed Sparks and lead author Carmody McCalley, a graduate student, warn that temperature increases and shifting precipitation patterns due to climate change may lead to further nitrogen losses in arid ecosystems.
• Cornell researcher uses stimulus money to study spinal cord injury recovery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  With a grant of almost $700,000 from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Ronald Harris-Warrick hopes to find ways for spinal cord injury victims to get back on their feet by studying the neural networks for locomotion in rodents.
• 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.
• Cornell team investigates how to starve tumors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers will create tiny 3-D models of tumors to mimic conditions necessary for tumor angiogenesis -- the development of vascular systems by tumors.
• Web site will link Latin American researchers with opportunities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  CienciAmérica (Science of the Americas), a new Web site where Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scientists can interact, will be developed and hosted at Galileo University in Guatemala, with material collected and formatted at Cornell.
• Battling cancer with engineering: National Cancer Institute funds Cornell-led $13 million research center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell. The center will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other related physical science approaches to advance research.
• Being a doctor can be 'really disgusting,' but rewards are unsurpassable, says Weill neurosurgeon | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/09 Chronicle feature
  
  Dr. Michael Kaplitt has developed a new technique to reduce symptoms of Parkinson's disease that involves injecting a gene-laden virus into the part of the brain responsible for dopamine production.
• Cornell Plantations breaks ground on its welcome center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The sustainably designed Cornell Plantations Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center is is built into Comstock Knoll at the Mullestein Winter garden and will be completed in 2010.
• Cornell's VIVO concept will expand to connect researchers nationwide | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  A $12.2 million, two-year grant from the NIH's National Center for Research Resources will support the creation of VIVOweb, a multi-institutional version of Cornell Library's VIVO that will connect biomedical researchers to foster alliances.
• 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.
• Researchers discover mechanism that prevents two species from reproducing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism in fruit flies that prevents two closely related species from reproducing, a finding that offers clues to how species evolve.
• Stimulus funds to pay for equipment at nanoscale facility | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades.
• 'The Mathematics of Sex' asserts that women opt out of math fields for flexibility | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Although females earn a large portion of bachelor's degrees in all fields of science, including math-intensive fields, disproportionately fewer women enter graduate school in these fields, and fewer women who earn Ph.D.s apply for academic jobs.
• Conference on cooperation, cheating, group decision-making yields insights | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Better understanding of honeybee interactions could have implications for understanding why people act selfishly in a communal system, said Kern Reeve, one of the presenters at the conference "Cooperation: Self Interest and Mutual Interest."
• Harold Craighead wins research honor from UPenn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The University of Pennsylvania's Nano/BioInterface Center has presented its annual Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology to Harold Craighead. His most recent research includes the use of nanofabricated devices for biological applications.
• AguaClara breaks ground on new water plant to serve 2,000 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  AguaClara, a program in civil and environmental engineering in which students design municipal drinking water plants that operate without requiring electricity, has celebrated the groundbreaking of its fifth full-scale facility.
• Study reveals how 'world's toughest bacterium' survives lethal radiation | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A new study by Cornell researchers reveals that nitric oxide plays a key role in D. radiodurans' recovery when exposed to ultraviolet radiation (UV).
• Lecture series covers basics in entrepreneurship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "We designed this series with the intention of really covering the most important aspects of entrepreneurship," said Dan Cohen, eLab's Entreprenuer-in-Residence and a faculty member in the ILR School.
• NPR's 'Science Friday' taps Cornell ornithologists, veterinarians for live show | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Bird migration and insights into being a veterinarian were the topics that Ira Flatow addressed Oct. 9, 2009 in his two-hour show, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," broadcast live from Bailey Hall before nearly 1,000 people.
• Why do human populations differ? Fruit fly study aims to provide genetic answers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Charles Aquadro, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, was recently granted almost $700,000 in federal stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to continue this 20-year line of research.
• Even if jail(ed) birds sing, can they really remember? | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Caged birds may still sing, but being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study by psychology graduate student Bernard Tarr and professor Tim DeVoogd.
• Nobel laureate Ada Yonath used Cornell synchrotron for early work on ribosome crystals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  CHESS officials are pleased to note how their National Science Foundation facility, and the National Institutes of Health-funded MacCHESS, made a contribution to Ada Yonath's Nobel Prize-winning work.
• With Fleming fellowship, researcher will study roots of Legionnaires' disease | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Duane Hoch, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell studying bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease, has received the 2009 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship from Cornell's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology.
• 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.
• Collaborative team will uncover architecture, social life in ancient cities on Cyprus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell-Ithaca College team of interdisciplinary researchers will combine social archaeology with physics, environmental psychology, architecture, planning and urban geography to study Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Maroni, two Late Bronze Age sites.
• To flap, or not to flap? Flapping wings can be more efficient than fixed wings, study shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  According to a new Cornell study by TAM professor Jane Wang and graduate student Umberto Pesavento, an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales.
• Five more faculty receive NSF early career awards, some with stimulus funding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  Faculty members Matthew Belmonte, David Erickson, Christine Goodale, Chris Schaffer and Jeffrey Varner have each received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the NSF for demonstrating "excellent research and teaching early in their careers".
• 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).
• With stimulus funds, Roald Hoffmann continues exploring novel chemical properties | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Roald Hoffmann has enjoyed near-uninterrupted NSF support over the past four decades. This year, he received an extra year tagged onto his regular three-year grant, thanks to federal stimulus funds.
• 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.
• Researchers receive prestigious NIH grants, including two $2.5 million Pioneer awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  The prestigious Pioneer awards support "scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering -- and possibly transforming approaches -- to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research," says the award Web site.
• 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.
• Computational modeling yields accurate tracking of heat flow through diamond | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into fields ranging from heat management in electronics to heat flow in the earth.
• Fabrics that fight germs and detect explosives go to market | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  iFyber LLC, a new company launched by two Cornell researchers, will produce fabrics with embedded nanoparticles to detect counterfeiting devices, explosives and dangerous chemicals or to serve as antibacterials.
• Researcher receives almost $1 million to study cholesterol in cell membranes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Gerald Feigenson has been creating simple models to mimic and study cholesterol in cell membranes for the past 15 years. He was recently given a boost with $937,000 in federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
• Lab of Ornithology helps Maya Lin realize her dream in creating arts series on species loss | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Two years ago, artist Maya Lin, creator of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., contacted the CLO's Macaulay Library for help with a multi-sited, multimedia project to raise awareness about extinct and threatened species and planetary changes.
• Regulatory reform vital for financial stability, panelists say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley, author Robert Kuttner and Cornell economist Eswar Prasad participated in the Lund Critical Debate on the financial crisis, moderated by Jonathan Kirchner.
• Grant to broaden student expertise in sustainable materials | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  An IGERT grant from the NSF will support 30 graduate students working in the CCMR on projects ranging from the development of alternatives to petroleum-based feedstocks used in consumer polymers, to the design of nanostructured materials for solar cells.
• New funds help faculty publish in open-access journals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Open-Access Publication (COAP) Fund will underwrite processing fees for scholarly peer-reviewed articles in open-access journals for which funds are not otherwise available. Cornell authors can apply for funding of up to $3,000.
• 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.
• Stimulus funds help synchrotron research, Energy Recovery Linac stay the course | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  Nearly $19 million allocated this year through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will support research at Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, including efforts to plan and build a new linear accelerator called the Energy Recovery Linac.
• van Es wins national award for advancing inclusiveness | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in applied economics and management at Cornell, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive the new Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty from Ernst & Young LLP.
• 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.
• Two professors spend summer exploring Woods Hole's microbial world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "The goal was to give a fundamental background in microbial diversity and ecology and to focus on understanding how to characterize microorganisms in the environment," said Dan Buckley, who co-directed the course with Steve Zinder.
• Cultural critic and conservation scientist are new A.D. White Professors-at-Large | 09/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and Jeffrey McNeely are new A.D. White Professors-at-Large, appointed to six-year terms through June 2015.
• Grasso tells nation's college presidents how Cornell's meeting new energy standards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Speaking at the Climate Leadership Summit of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, Grasso focused on the financial implications of neutralizing campus greenhouse gas emissions.
• 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.
• Speaker series on sustainability aimed at undergraduates | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  "Sustainable Earth, Energy and the Environmental Systems" is a new Cornell speaker series specifically designed for freshmen and sophomores.
• 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.
• Collaborative energy research is vital for state economy, Governer Paterson says at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Paterson met with President David Skorton and a gathering of government, university and industry leaders to highlight his support for Cornell projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the federal stimulus package.
• $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.
• Depictions of catastrophe, poverty in 'The Grapes of Wrath' relevant today | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Scholars in economics, environmental science, labor and English each presented their views on the book and its meaning as part of the university's ninth annual New Student Reading Project.
• Cornell's cancer vaccine for ovarian cancer and melanoma begins clinical trials | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  The trials are assessing the safety and the anti-tumor immune response of the so-called NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein cancer vaccine, according to the Cancer Research Institute, an organization that has given $450,000 to aid with vaccine production.
• 'Jumping genes' find gaps in DNA, cause widespread antibiotic resistance in bacteria, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A new Cornell study focuses on sequences of DNA called Tn7, which fall into a category of genes known as transposons, or "jumping genes," for their ability to move from place to place in DNA.
• 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.
• Some mice stem cells divide in unexpected ways, study says | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Using new genetic tools, researchers have found that some stem cells in mice behave differently than in fruit flies, where most of the pioneering stem cell work has been conducted. The findings could have implications for understanding how cancers begin.
• Champion mare's legacy lives on with birth of filly | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A foal born Aug. 4 trots happily even though her mother died almost a year ago from a ruptured intestine. A team at Cornell is believed to be the first to successfully extract and ship eggs from a dead mare for remote fertilization and implantation.
• 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.
• African village dogs are genetically much more diverse than modern breeds, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral village dogs.
• Hoffmann, Ober and Scheraga named American Chemical Society (ACS) fellows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  The inaugural class of ACS fellows includes Cornell Professors Roald Hoffmann, Christopher Ober and Harold Scheraga, whom the society has cited with "true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise."
• 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.
• National Geographic 'explorer' appointed Rhodes professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/31/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  R. Spencer Wells, a 40-year-old geneticist, anthropologist and explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, has been appointed Cornell's latest Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor.
• Researchers use yeast to identify cancer-causing genes that may also occur in humans | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell study, published online in the journal Public Library of Science Biology, is the first to report on mutations in yeast that lead to accelerated cell growth, similar to cancerous tumors.
• 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.
• Improved air quality during Beijing Olympics could inform pollution-curbing policies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Led by Max Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, the study indicates that such measures as regulating traffic density and encouraging public transportation can have a significant impact on local air quality.
• 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.
• Yeh named assistant provost at Saudi Arabia's KAUST | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  David S. Yeh, Cornell's assistant vice president for student and academic services, has been named assistant provost for academic programs and projects at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new university in Saudi Arabia.
• 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.
• Ecologist brings century-old eggs to life to study evolution | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Nelson Hairston Jr. is a pioneer in a field known loosely as "resurrection ecology," in which researchers study the eggs of such creatures that get buried in lake sediments and can remain viable for decades or even centuries.
• Logevall named director of Cornell's Einaudi Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Fredrik Logevall, professor of history, has been named the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell and director of the university's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
• Search yields no ivory-billed woodpecker, but a wealth of ecological information | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's six-person mobile search team, which has spent the last three winters combing the southeastern United States, has wrapped up what is likely to be its last large-scale search.
• Two faculty members honored with PECASE awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and Derek Warner, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, are recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
• 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.
• Graduate students report on need for interdisciplinary environmental research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The BEB program may offer a model in an academic system where research across departments is challenging at best, according to a paper published in the June issue of Bioscience and authored by Jennifer Moslemi and other Cornell graduate students
• Angela Horne honored by Johnson School | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Horne joined the Management Library 10 years ago, has greatly expanded the library's capabilitie and developed new career resources to help serve the Johnson School's students. She has also focused on her staff, encouraging team development and values.
• '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.
• Three faculty members invited to National Academy of Engineering symposium | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  The 15th annual symposium, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering, will feature 88 engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing "exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines," according to the NAE.
• 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.
• Theater educator Martha Dewey killed in car accident | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, said: "We have lost a colleague, a mentor and a friend. Martha's impact on the campus through her role as artistic director and founding member of CITE was profound, her talents were many and impressive."
• Cornell provides insights into results from new poll partnership with New York Times and NY1 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  The findings of the first Cornell/New York Times/NY1 poll gave New York state residents a snapshot of their collective zeitgeist about obesity, key politicians, the economy and gay marriage when it was released in early June 2009.
• Like burrs on your clothes, virus-size capsules stick to cells to target drug delivery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "This study greatly extends the range of therapies," said Michael King, Cornell associate professor of biomedical engineering, who co-authored the study with lead author Zhong Huang, a former Cornell research associate.
• Skorton to speak at Ethiopian university's graduation on East Africa trip | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  When the first class of Cornell's Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree program in international agriculture and rural development graduates at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, Cornell President David Skorton will be there to deliver a speech.
• A mystery solved: Space shuttle shows 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by comet | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell research.
• 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.
• Biofuels Research Lab officially opens | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The multidisciplinary BRL serves as the hub of Cornell's research and development of sustainable and economical biofuels derived from nonfood crops. Its goal is to develop renewable energy sources and stimulate economic opportunities for NY agriculture.
• 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.
• Eight receive Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The $15,000 awards recognize research and scholarship by outstanding tenured faculty members early in their careers and are an opportunity for the university to recognize its own talented researchers.
• 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
• Instructors pair up with librarians to ramp up student research skills | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Library's Information Competency Initiative is a weeklong seminar with follow-up meetings throughout the year. The program aims to improve student research skills by helping faculty redesign their courses' research components.
• 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.
• Brown named vice provost for undergraduate education | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  English Professor Laura Brown, the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English, will succeed Michele Moody-Adams, July 1, 2009.
• 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.
• PRI receives one of the world's largest collections of Antarctic invertebrates | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The collection of Cretaceous to Eocene mollusk fossils from Seymour Island, Antarctica, was donated by William J. Zinsmeister, a professor of geology at Purdue University.
• 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 to buy MRI scanner for cutting-edge research in behavioral and life sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The medical imaging device, which should be up and running by fall 2011, will allow researchers to delve into new areas, ranging from the biological processes that influence decision-making to prescription drug delivery and tissue engineering.
• 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.
• Cornell aids discovery of blue whale singing in New York coastal waters | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Acoustics experts at the Lab of O's Bioacoustics Research Program and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed that the voice of a singing blue whale was tracked about 70 miles off Long Island and New York City Jan. 10-11 2009.
• 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.
• Recruitment of diverse faculty is up, but competition is fierce, says report | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has made good progress in the past 10 years in recruiting a diverse faculty of academics early in their careers. Now the university must focus on retaining them as they climb to the middle and upper ranks.
• 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.
• Cornell's new solar house goes round and round | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The designers of Cornell's new solar house have gone outside the box for their entry in the 2009 Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October.
• Small evolutionary shifts make big impacts -- like developing night vision, researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers from Cornell, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee and the Federal University of Para, Brazil, have found an evolutionary mechanism that provides insight into how important changes in brain structure of primates can evolve.
• Cornell team shares in grant to see how graphene can replace silicon in microchips | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that a Cornell team led by Michael Spencer will share a $1.5 million, 5-year grant with 7 Columbia faculty to fabricate graphene, an atom-thick layer of carbon, in large sheets suitable for use in microchips.
• DNA molecules engineered to detect pathogens | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Dan Luo and his research team, which included first author and postdoctoral associate Jong B. Lee and David Muller has created new DNA molecules that can detect pathogens and deliver drugs to cells when they form long chains called polymers.
• Metal sheets with DNA framework could enable future nanocircuits | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Using DNA not as a genetic material but as a structural support, Cornell researchers have created thin sheets of gold nanoparticles held together by strands of DNA. The work could prove useful for making thin transistors or other electronic devices.
• 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.
• Chemist Chirik receives Humboldt Foundation award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Paul Chirik has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Chirik works at the intersection of organic and inorganic chemistry, exploring energy-efficient chemical transformations that reduce fossil fuel dependencies and minimize waste.
• 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.
• Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Aaccording to studies at the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab (CLAL), children who learn a second language can maintain attention despite outside stimuli better than children who know only one language.
• Small Times again ranks Cornell among top 10 nanotechnology institutions | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  This year, Cornell was ranked No. 2 for commercialization; No. 4 for research; No. 5 for peer nano research; No. 7 for peer micro research; No. 3 for peer nano commercialization; and No. 6 for peer micro commercialization.
• $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.
• Stimulus money will fuel energy research and add jobs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers have won federal stimulus funding for 3 projects: the Center for Nanostructured Interfaces for Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage, the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, and the Energy Frontier Research Center for Combustion Science
• 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.
• Contentious Knowledge theme project probes how social and political actors challenge expertise | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The ISS 2006-2009 project focused on topics such as climate change, genetically modified food, economic development and other areas in which "authoritative knowledge" derived from science has influenced public policy debates and boiled over into conflict.
• Poverty researchers kick off three-year Institute for the Social Sciences collaboration | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The 2008-11 Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project will focus of questions such as: Why does chronic poverty grind down citizens of both poor and wealthy societies? And what can be done to relieve it?
• Grad program in biological engineering tops U.S. News 2009 rankings | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  "We take pride in our graduate programs, and we are delighted to see that many of them are ranked highly," said Sunny Power, dean of the graduate school.
• 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.
• Biology undergrads do original research in class -- and then learn how to write it up | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "The major goal of the class is to immerse the students into a project and to put them into the ongoing process of how research works," said Maki Inada, a senior research associate in molecular biology and genetics who developed and teaches the course.
• 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.
• The labyrinth is a bloomin': Open house is May 2 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  When Professor Bill Miller's Herbaceous Plant Materials class planted a labyrinth in November 2007, poor weather and drainage resulted in a disappointing display. Undeterred, this year's class planted a more ambitious labyrinth.
• George P. Hess named Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Hess, a Cornell faculty member for more than 50 years, investigates the structure and function of neurotransmitter receptors, membrane-bound proteins that control and integrate communication between the cells of the nervous system.
• Cornell team in China offers innovative urban eco-design | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  At a two-week urban design workshop in northern China, March 14-28, a Cornell team of five students and two professors proposed an innovative eco-design for new Chinese cities.
• Johnson School students spend immersion time in Colombia advising businesses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  While most students relaxed or took beach vacations over spring break, 33 Johnson School students spent an intensive 6 days in Colombia, advising business leaders on ways to grow their operations, forge into new markets or stay current in the online world
• Consumer Camp participants get the skinny on overeating | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "Our mission in the lab is to observe eating behavior as it occurs in the real world and come up with ways for people to avoid these food traps," said Brian Wansink, the lab's director and the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing in AEM.
• 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.
• Entrepreneurs Seek Next Big Idea in Competition | Daily Sun feature | 4/20/2009 Daily Sun feature
  Ezra Cornell’s development of the telegraph made him a leading entrepreneur of his time. Following in Cornell’s spirit of entrepreneurship, this year’s Big Idea competition celebrated ingenuity of students in the fields of business and social enterprise.
• 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.
• CU study on nurse home visits has led to national program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  David Olds, Ph.D. '76, who spearheaded the project as a doctoral student at Cornell delivered the 2009 John Doris Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Family Life Development Center (FLDC), April 7, describing how the project became a nationwide program.
• Finding how carbon nanotubes work as catalysts could lead to cleaner fuels | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have pinpointed unique sites where chemical reactions, including some that could be used to make cleaner fuels, take place on single-walled nanotubes.
• eLab helps nurture nine undergraduate student businesses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Student Agencies eLab, the nonprofit accelerator for undergraduate businesses, is helping nine student groups this semester develop and grow their business ideas.
• New test may predict breast cancer metastasis | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A new marker called tumor microenvironment of metastasis (TMEM), is associated with the development of distant organ metastasis via the bloodstream -- the most common cause of death from breast cancer.
• Scholars to address 'Militarizing Everyday Life' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  A diverse group of scholars will explore the relationship between security and insecurity, and between military conflict and modernity, in a 2-day conference, "Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life," April 17-18 2009.
• Cornell is an academic 'feast,' says Jay Walker '77, Entrepreneur of the Year | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Solace, perhaps, for ILR School students struggling with their required statistics course: Jay Walker, ILR '77, didn't like it, either.
• 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.
• 'Big Idea' finalists fine-tune business ideas -- from glowing pillows to Peruvian clothes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  For Josh Groleau '11, his "big idea" came to him while he was in high school, taking apart a snowmobile with his dad.
• 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."
• In face of competition, male fruit flies change to gain reproductive edge | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A study by researchers from Cornell, University of East Anglia and University College London found that when male fruit flies sense competition during mating, they pack more proteins into their seminal fluid, boosting their reproductive success.
• CU study: Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, reports a new Cornell study.
• Obama should compensate Africa, promote democracy, stresses former Botswana president | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  From T-shirts and hats to the sides of buses and buildings, the face of President Barack Obama is ubiquitous throughout Africa. So too are the expectations of what his administration can do for the continent, said former Botswana President Festus Mogae.
• 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.
• Celebrating 40 years as Human Ecology, the college recalls its name change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Gwen Kay, associate professor of history at SUNY Oswego and recipient of the 2009 Human Ecology Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics, discussed the history of CHE in a public talk last month at Mann Library.
• Mellon Foundation grant aids higher ed economics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $699,000 grant for research and training in higher education economics to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).
• Cornell researchers discover mechanism that increases SARS virulence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The researchers have discovered two sites -- called cleavage sites -- where a key structural protein on the virus gets split, activating a process that allows the virus to enter a host cell.
• 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.
• New way to produce critical proteins for medicine and industry sidesteps use of live cells | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Current methods employ vats of genetically modified bacteria or mammalian cells that churn out proteins for such pharmaceuticals as insulin or HGH. Cornell's faster, efficient process weaves the coding DNA into an artificial gel made of synthetic DNA.
• 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.
• Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration slated for April 16-17 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 3/30/2009 Chronicle feature
• 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).
• Human Ecology's Ying Hua examines how the U.S. and Japan build green | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Recently awarded a U.S. Green Building Council grant and the Abe Fellowship by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Council, Hua is comparing how Japan and the United States approach "green" building design.
• 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.
• American Indian Program expands opportunities for engagement, scholarship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  AIP students will attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this year. The AIP has also joined the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and acquired the Huntington Free Library collection of Native American materials.
• Incest can lead to more disease in offspring, Cornell crow study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The findings have important implications for endangered species, which may find mating with relatives unavoidable if they have a small pool of potential mates, say Andrea Townsend and Irby Lovette of Cornell and researchers from Binghamton University.
• Nature-inspired technology creates engineered antibodies to fight specific diseases | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A new genetic-engineering technique which involves the efficient "readout" of protein-to-protein interactions within cells could pave the way for creating and cataloging disease-specific antibodies in the lab.
• Spotlight on sociology transitions | 03/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In August, Richard Swedberg will begin a one-year term as chair of the American Sociological Association's (ASA) theory section, and when Dan Lichter will step down from his post as chair of the ASA's family section.
• Teachers hone skills at educator development day | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In one of the 110 workshops offered to local teachers at the 5th annual Educator Professional Development Day at Cornell, they learned how movement can be used to explain math concepts.
• Asking questions is crux of yearlong program to improve science teaching in NYC schools | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Science Leadership Academy (SLA), is a new yearlong professional development program for New York City middle school teachers.
• Women have come far, but still have a long way to go toward equality, say speakers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Panelists discussed sexism in the workplace as part of the International Women's Day celebration on campus March 11.
• 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.
• Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein honored with NSF early career awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  The award is for those who "exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organization," according to the NSF.
• Four chemists honored by American Chemical Society | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell chemists Roald Hoffmann, Geoffrey Coates, Garnet Chan and Paul Chirik have received awards from the American Chemical Society for outstanding contributions to the field.
• 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.
• Peng Chen, Liam McAllister and Adam Siepel are named Sloan fellows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  Chen, McAllister and Siepel have been selected as 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellows. The awards are intended to enhance the careers of the best young faculty members in specified fields of science.
• Charles Darwin exhibits show the mind of a naturalist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Along with his insatiable curiosity about almost any form of life, Darwin the naturalist continued to gather material in support of evolution for 22 years after he published "On the Origin of the Species" in 1859.
• Library starts undergrad information project to get students beyond Google | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  It's nothing new for librarians to help people learn research skills, but the Internet revolution demands more than a chat at the reference desk. That is why CUL has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative.
• 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.
• Devastating invasive pest threatens hemlock trees in region | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Hemlock woolly adelgids, an invasive species first discovered in the central Finger Lakes area last summer, have been identified in 19 Finger Lakes sites, and now include Cornell Plantations' Cascadilla Gorge and Beebe Lake natural areas.
• Women opt out of math/science careers because of family demands, study concludes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  The authors concluded that hormonal, brain and other biological sex differences were not primary factors in explaining why women were underrepresented in science careers, and that studies on social and cultural effects were inconsistent and inconclusive.
• CU will play role in global energy future, says Clancy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The greatest need for sustainable energy goes beyond creating new energies, said Paulette Clancy, the William C. Hooey Director of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, speaking at a meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women.
• Funding renewed for national nanotechnology network | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), of which Cornell is the lead institution and a founding member, has received a five-year renewal grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $17 million per year.
• 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.
• CU students teach computer literacy and malaria prevention in Ghana during winter break | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Giving high school students access to computers and spreading awareness of what causes malaria were the goals of two different student groups, the Coalition of Pan-African Scholars and Cover Africa, that made service trips to Ghana over winter break.
• 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.
• For 10 years, foundation of anonymous alumna has been funding sustainability projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Toward Sustainability Foundation (TSF) has been bolstering Cornell's sustainability research with a steady stream of gifts since 1999. About 75 faculty and student projects that examine sustainable agriculture have benefited.
• 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.
• Josephine Allen, first tenured black woman at Cornell, reflects on 32-year career | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Allen taught public policy and critical perspectives with a focus on social welfare policies and families, and worked internationally in Hong Kong, Jamaica, Ghana and South Africa, where she was a Fulbright scholar.
• U.N. adviser to address the human right to water | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Maude Barlow, senior adviser on water to the United Nations and author of "Blue Covenant," will deliver the keynote lecture at the Water-Sharing and Culture in the Mediterranean conference at Cornell, March 6-8.
• 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 University Museum of Vertebrates offers rare glimpses into past to study the present | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Located in the Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, the museum contains more than 1.5 million specimens and serves as the primary repository for vertebrates collected by Cornellians doing research around the world.
• Isolation and tracking of mouse stem cells ends debate on their existence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A pioneering Cornell and University of Bonn study has isolated and purified mouse heart stem cells, which could allow researchers to better understand whether genes can spur heart stem cells to fully differentiate into new cells after a heart attack.
• 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.
• Former Colombian mayor, now presidential hopeful, cites Medellín reform as proof that education is engine of change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  As candidate for mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Sergio Fajardo took long walks around town, stopping to speak with people at schools, on soccer fields and at street corners. He sought to win the people's trust and to transform the violence-ridden city.
• BOOM and Faculty Innovation in Teaching set for February and March | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  Bits on Our Minds, the annual expo of student efforts in digital technology and applications, will feature displays and demonstrations ranging from robots to computer graphics. FIT provides funding for innovative use of instructional technology.
• Course comparing Indian and U.S. agriculture helps make students and faculty 'globally relevant' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "It is a life-altering experience for most students, as it was for me when I participated in 1969," said Ronnie Coffman (Ph.D. '71), international professor of plant breeding and director of international programs in CALS.
• Glowing 'Cornell dots' can show surgeons where tumors are | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Brightly glowing nanoparticles, "Cornell dots" were developed in 2005 by Hooisweng Ow, then a graduate student working with Ulrich Wiesner. The dots may also have applications in displays, optical computing and sensors.
• 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.
• Evolution and race: Biologically, race is no longer an issue, scientific panel agrees | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The panel discussion, part of a series of "Darwin Days" events marking the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth Feb. 12, provided perspectives on what race meant to Darwin and what it means to evolutionary biologists today.
• 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.
• Johnson School at Cornell University Seeks New Business Ideas in BR Ventures' Cornell Venture Challenge | Johnson School Release | 2/5/2009 Johnson School Release
  Reformatted competition offers finalists coaching from expert judges
• 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.
• Role of protein in tumor growth is highlighted by researcher using 3-D model | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  By observing the behavior of cancer cells grown in both two and three dimensions, assistant professor Claudia Fischbach-Teschl has shown that a protein secreted by cancer cells could be a key factor in allowing cancer to grow and spread in the body.
• Intercampus research team develops artificial skin, heart valves and blood vessels | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A high-functioning artificial artery that the human body will accept as its own is on its way, says Cornell fiber scientist C.C. Chu, who works on projects funded by Morgan Seed Grants for Collaborative Multidisciplinary Research in Tissue Engineering.
• 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.
• Darwin bicentennial events crowd Cornell calendar | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/04/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature.
• 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.
• Hotel and Johnson schools team to offer real-world sustainability course | Cornell Chronicle feature | link to article
  Global poverty, climate change, ecosystem degradation and other issues are being tackled in a new course called Sustainable Global Enterprise Practicum in the Hospitality Industry. It is open to undergraduate and graduate students, and began in October.
• Did people 'lie' about race on November election surveys? No evidence, says CBS News panelist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  "Race did play a role in the 2008 presidential election," but not the way most people think, said Kathleen Frankovic '68, director of surveys and a producer for CBS News, at the Survey Research Institute's Annual Speaker Series last week.
• Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell research team's experiments involve the "unzipping" of single DNA molecules. By mapping the hiccups, stoppages and forces along the way, they have gained new insight into how genes are packed and expressed within cells.
• Jay Walker named 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Jay Walker '77, chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, has been named the 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. He will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration April 16-17.
• 'Evil' fungi are beauteous, beneficial, says mycologist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  With more than 70,000 identified species, the fungi kingdom is one of the most diverse, according to Kathie Hodge, Cornell associate professor of mycology. But 95 percent of the fungi in the world are yet to be discovered.
• Four professors named 2008 Weiss Presidential fellows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  The awards are named for Stephen H. Weiss '57, the late emeritus chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, who endowed the program. The awards honor excellence in teaching, advising and outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.
• 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.
• Nanotech facility receives five-year renewal grant from NSF | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), which is the flagship of Cornell's cutting-edge nanotechnology research, is one of 14 such research facilities across the country that make up the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.
• Researcher: New toxicant safety standards are needed to protect the young | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Safety testing for environmental chemicals and drugs is routinely conducted on adults, said Rodney R. Dietert, professor of immunotoxicology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, which is hardly relevant for young children or children in utero.
• Zoos, documentaries and hiking are vital to science literacy, finds new report | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The report says that learners in informal environments experience "excitement, interest and motivation to learn about phenomena in the world." These responses form the foundation for learning in informal environments rich in science phenomena.
• Researchers uncover how protein receptors on cells switch on and off for growth and health | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The findings have important implications for better understanding cancer, AIDS and other illnesses, because such diseases can result when receptors go awry by failing to turn off, a function known as down-regulation.
• 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.
• Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/08/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into such thin, flexible electronics as transistors and photovoltaic materials.
• 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.
• Levine named interim director of Einaudi Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Gilbert E. Levine, professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering, became interim director of the university's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Jan. 1. His term runs through June 30.
• Three small businesses launch JumpStart projects with Cornell materials scientists | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The JumpStart program was launched at Cornell in 2005, and since then 85 companies have applied and 24 projects have been completed at CCMR. Two-thirds of the companies have continued their interactions with Cornell faculty members.
• Using light to move and trap DNA molecules | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/31/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  David Erickson, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and colleague Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, are using the pressure of light to move and manipulate biological molecules.
• 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.
• Groundbreaking, inexpensive, pocket-sized ultrasound device can help treat cancer, relieve arthritis | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  George K. Lewis, a third-year Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering and a National Science Foundation fellow, creates ultrasound devices that are smaller, more powerful and many times less expensive than today's models.
• 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.
• Researcher 'sings' for a living to decode the meaning of bird songs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell behavioral ecologist Sandra Vehrencamp records bird songs in Santa Rosa National Park, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, and then plays them back to other birds of the same species to try to determine exactly how birds communicate through their vocalization
• Alumni survey concludes that entrepreneurship classes shape attitudes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Does taking even one class in entrepreneurship have an impact on one's future career?
• New technique provides snapshot of all genes being transcribed across human genome | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell researchers have created a technique that takes a snapshot of all the locations on the human genome where RNA polymerases actively transcribe genes, providing a highly sensitive way to pinpoint all the active and silent genes in the human genome.
• Cornell helps build demographic research capacity in Francophone Africa | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell is working with the Institute for Demographic Training and Research (IFORD), a leading institute for demographic training in French-speaking Africa, with hopes of fortifying population science programs in Africa.
• 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.
• Researchers show how to measure conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A team of Cornell researchers has invented an efficient, inexpensive method to electrically characterize individual carbon nanotubes, even when they are of slightly different shapes and sizes and are networked together.
• Cornell Perspectives: Why an interdisciplinary biological research institute now? | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Anthony Bretscher is associate director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell.
• 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.
• Researcher invents lethal 'lint brush' to capture and kill cancer cells in the bloodstream | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a new tactic in the fight against cancer, Cornell researcher Michael King has developed a tiny, implantable device that captures and kills cancer cells in the bloodstream before they spread through the body.
• 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.
• Trochim gets $2.3 million from NSF to evaluate science-based education | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  William Trochim, professor of policy analysis and management, will collaborate with educators, scientists and students to develop and implement new ways to evaluate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programs.
• Veterinary college develops vaccine for Johne's disease | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Scientists at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine have developed a vaccine that prevents Johne's disease, a condition that leads to $220 million to $250 million in losses annually to the U.S. dairy industry.
• 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.
• News from AAP: Sustainable architecture research funded | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future has awarded a grant for a research project involving Department of Architecture faculty. The grant of nearly $140,000 will go to "Integrated Digital Design Environment for Sustainable Architecture".
• 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.
• Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell. The awards allow faculty to work with students by providing assistants to help with courses.
• Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference slated for Dec. 9 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  Intended for agribusiness professionals, industrial leaders, policymakers, educators and farm managers, the conference is presented by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
• Cornell scientists find key to riddle of vitamin B1 biosynthesis -- 'like solving a Rubik's cube' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of vitamin B1 has somehow evolved the ability to perform a complex series of some 15 to 20 steps, report two Cornell chemists.
• Want to win friends and influence people? Use Facebook and IM, studies suggest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  It's an age-old question: How do you get a new acquaintance to like you? Jeff Hancock, associate professor of communication, says that he and his research team have found that what works in face-to-face communication can also work in the cyber world.
• 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.
• What to do with rotten, smelly garbage when the nearest dumpster is 100 million miles away | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Jean Hunter, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has been working with research partner Orbital Technologies Corp. (ORBITEC) of Madison, Wis., to develop a cutting-edge trash dryer for NASA.
• Chris Ober named interim dean of engineering | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Christopher K. Ober, Cornell's Francis Bard Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, will begin serving as interim dean of the College of Engineering when current dean Kent Fuchs becomes Cornell provost Jan. 1.
• 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.
• Study: Women who serially cohabit are less likely to marry or stay married | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The study, an analysis of 4,832 women- of which 1,795 had cohabited -from the 1979-2000 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, conducted with Zhenchao Qian, a professor at Ohio State University, is published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
• LEED is the new building standard, say developers at Cornell conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/12/2008 Chronicle feature
  At the "Defining Sustainable Development" conference on land use, climate change and water resources, a private developer said that about a year and a half ago, the market began demanding more green buildings.
• The miseries of allergies just may help prevent some cancers, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  There may be a silver lining to the miserable cloud of allergy symptoms: Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer- particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer.
• Despite market turmoil, financial engineering 'quants' see number-crunching future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell financial engineering master's students Elisabet Gudrun Bjornsdottir, Mattan Horowitz, Duncan Wong and Urvashi Batra walk through lower Manhattan, near the New York Stock Exchange.
• Einaudi Center funds research on food crisis, World Trade Organization, biofuels and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants. Selections were based on the projects' potential to advance research by junior faculty, to generate external funding and to bring long-term benefits to international studies
• 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.
• 'Unprecedented' warming drives dramatic ecosystem shifts in North Atlantic, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell study reports that as a result of global warming which has caused Arctic freshwater ice to melt and flow southward, the ranges of some coldwater, northern marine species have been moving down the North American coast- a counterintuitive finding.
• 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.
• Researchers develop ultrafast oscilloscope on a chip | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers at Cornell have created a way to plot the waveform of an ultrashort-lived optical signal with a resolution of less than a trillionth of a second.
• 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.
• Researchers describe how cells take out the trash to prevent disease | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/31/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Scott Emr, director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell, and colleagues, describe in detail how cells recycle protein waste in two recent papers appearing in the journals Cell and Developmental Cell.
• Voting for a candidate is not about policy or experience -- it's about charisma, researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/30/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a matter of seconds, voters can decide -- based on their perception of a candidate's charisma -- which of two candidates will win a race. About 60 percent of the time, they are correct, according to a new study.
• 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.
• New Ph.D. combines ergonomics, environmental psychology, facility planning, design | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  Offered in the College of Human Ecology's Department of Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), the doctorate in human behavior and design (HBD) program will draw on DEA's subject specialties.
• 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.
• Kavli symposium looks at the future of computing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Computer scientists and engineers -- and one neurophysiologist -- met at Cornell Oct. 12-14 for a Symposium on Computing Challenges sponsored by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.
• 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.
• New York women's panel looks at financial crisis from a female perspective | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "In this period of economic downturn there's one area where we [women] have achieved equality," said U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-14th Dist.) Oct. 20 at the Cornell Conference Center in New York City. "Job loss."
• Weill Hall business incubator gets new momentum with $7.5 million McGovern gift | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Kevin M. McGovern '70, his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Jarrett '03 and Ashley '08, the former IDEA Center is now the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences.
• 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.
• Kessler Fellows Program to let engineering students embrace their entrepreneurial spirit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The College of Engineering is offering a select group of students the chance to learn how to make their technological innovations into working businesses, thanks to a gift from Andrew J. Kessler '80.
• Weill Hall business incubator gets new momentum with $7.5 million McGovern gift | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Weill Hall's planned life sciences business incubator has a new name and new momentum, thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Kevin M. McGovern '70, his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Jarrett '03 and Ashley '08.
• Hospitality Innovation Study Launched by Cornell Faculty Team | News Release | 11/18/2008 Press Release
  Researchers from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration are asking the hospitality industry to share its best new ideas.
• Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.
• With perfect accuracy, Cornell team's ChemE car wins national competition | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  With their shoebox-size car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the 18-member undergraduate ChemE Car Team placed first at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student-car competition in Philadelphia Nov. 16, beating out more than 30 other teams.
• Reap the Benefits of Student-run Investment Funds | 11/1/2008 Tech Transfer Tactics Newsletter
  
  Some technology transfer offices have an additional weapon in their arsenal to develop and commercialize new technologies: technology-focused investment funds managed by entrepreneurial MBA candidates.
• Students by day, entrepreneurs by night | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus provide an academic foundation for their dreams of starting and running their own companies after graduation.
• At Weill Hall dedication, faculty panel ponders life science feats and promises | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a conversation that lifted the lid on current research and issues in the life sciences, a panel of Cornell faculty engaged in a discussion during the dedication of Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology.
• Weill Hall and institute dedicated in celebration of 'an icon for our future' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Oct. 16 dedication of the state-of-the-art building and the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology marked the conclusion of a day of festivities -- and the culmination of years of effort.
• 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.
• Emr elected associate member of elite European Molecular Biology Organization | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Scott Emr, director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and professor of molecular biology and genetics, has been elected an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, an honor bestowed upon only a few Americans.
• Researchers 'stamp' nanodevices with rubber molds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By manipulating the way droplets of fluid dry, researchers have created a way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive tools. The process is guided by molds that "stamp" the desired structures.
• 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.
• Cornell surveys students on campus and in swing states | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2008 Chronicle feature
• 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.
• Architect Meier speaks about creating Weill Hall: a space where people are happy working together | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Weill Hall architect Richard A. Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, is one of Cornell's most famous alumni. Chronicle writer Daniel Aloi interviewed Meier by phone from his New York office about the design of Weill Hall in relation to the campus and the community.
• For researchers in Weill Hall, collaboration between Ithaca and New York City is central | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The principle that the most innovative ideas come from scientists who work together across disciplinary boundaries has been a central Cornell strength for decades, so the faculty and students inhabiting Weill Hall are savvy to the rewards of cooperation.
• Weill Hall, life science research center for ideas and collaboration, is open for business | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Completion of architect Richard Meier's life sciences building, Weill Hall marks a giant leap toward advancing Cornell's leadership nationally and internationally in the genomics-led science revolution.
• Help create WikiCandidate -- the ideal presidential candidate | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell communication graduate students Josh Braun and Dmitry Epstein; Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell assistant professor of communication; and a team of undergraduates have developed a Wiki Web site where anyone can assemble the perfect candidate.
• Online scientific repository hits milestone | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million research articles published online now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public
• New Human Ecology dean takes hands-on approach | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "I am honored, humbled and excited to be entrusted with the responsibility of leading the college," Alan Mathios said. "I hope to approach the role with energy, patience and definitely a sense of humor."
• Inequality at work continues to worsen, says economist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, was the speaker at "Opportunity 103: Inequality at Work," the third in a series of four seminars for alumni organized by David Harris.
• 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.
• ILR School report for U.N.: 'Green' economy may produce millions of jobs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  But the report, "Green Jobs: Toward Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World," also finds that some jobs in the new green economy will be "dirty, dangerous and difficult" -- particularly low-paying jobs in agriculture and recycling.
• The search for 'green' gold in the Amazon rain forest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable products, Cornell fiber science professors Anil Netravali and Juan Hinestroza are forging new collaborations with researchers in Brazil.
• 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.
• VanEe to co-chair Cornell Computing Directors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  James VanEe, director of information technology for the Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies, was elected Sept. 12 for a two-year term. He joins Daniel Elswit, assistant director of information technology for CALS.
• 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.
• New nanotechnology office at Weill Cornell to help 'marry nanofabrication with life sciences' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To bring Cornell's cutting-edge nanotechnology capabilities closer to medical researchers, Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has opened a satellite office on the Weill Cornell Medical College campus.
• Critic speaks on urban design at Trancik retirement event | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Architecture critic Robert Campbell's Sept. 12 talk, "Do Cities Need Designers?" honored the retirement of Roger Trancik after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning (CRP) and landscape architecture.
• National Park(ing) Day made C-town a little greener | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  On Sept. 19, students from Cornell's chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects transformed a metered parking space on College Avenue into a green oasis for the day. Trees, flowers, lawn and benches helped create a mini park.
• Researchers describe for first time how some bacteria kill males: They first invade the mother | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Many groups of bacteria are known as "male killers" -- they target and kill just the males of a host species. Patrick Ferree, Cornell postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and genetics, has helped describe how this happens.
• Nobelist Carl Wieman: Use science to teach science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Science instructors need to use data on how memory works and the same process that scientists use to glean new information: conceptual problem solving, said physicist and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman in a public lecture, Sept. 22.
• 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.
• New book dissects race-based disadvantage | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Interim Provost David Harris has edited a volume of articles with Ann Chih Lin of the University of Michigan titled "The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist" (Russell Sage Foundation; 2008).
• On Smuttynose, layers of history reveal early settlement and fate of fisheries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  This summer, Smuttynose Island became the site of an archaeological dig during a one-week course through Shoals Marine Lab, a marine biology teaching and research facility run by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire.
• Powerhouse team battles to save right whales | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has joined the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Liberty Harbor, and other supporters up and down the eastern seaboard to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales off the Brunswick coastline.
• Blanchard honored for pioneering ribosome research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Weill Cornell Medical College researcher Scott Blanchard has received the National Science Foundation's Career Award for his pioneering work in cell biology, including the development of a single-molecule tracking technology.
• Engineering teaching institute supports faculty with innovative classroom ideas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Leaders of the new College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Institute hope faculty will take advantage of ideas to make their material more meaningful to students and to expand their repertoire of teaching methods.
• 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.
• Seven receive American Heart Association grants | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  Reserachers Huai-hu Chuang, Cynthia Reinhart-King, Moonsoo Jin, Jonathan Butcher, Suraj Saksena, and graduate students David Infanger and Raga Krishnakumar have been awarded grants from the AHA.
• To survive, tiger moths are bright for birds, click for bats | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The virgin tiger moth, Grammia virgo, has evolved warning signals to remind predators of its noxious taste. It is conspicuously colored to deter birds during the day and sound producing to deter bats at night.
• Whales heard for first time in waters around New York City | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program and the New York State DEC.
• CNF, cancer institute to host cancer research workshop | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  Scheduled keynote speakers are Tejal Desai, professor of physiology and director of the University of California-San Francisco Laboratory of Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology; and Jianyu Rao, associate professor of pathology and epidemiology at UCLA.
• 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).
• From mice to men, evidence of evolutionary selection is found in 544 genes in analysis going back 80 million years | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By comparing the genomes of humans and five other mammals, Cornell researchers have identified 544 genes that have been shaped by positive selection over millions of years of evolution.
• CU directs meeting at U.N. on socio-economics impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The AIDS crisis in Africa was discussed Sept. 9 at the United Nations University (UNU) Cornell Africa Series Symposium in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations.
• Class sustainability project tackles a greener Hollister Hall | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  A group of engineering management master's students took the call for reducing Cornell's carbon footprint to heart, dedicating their fall 2007 master of engineering project to a new plan for increasing energy efficiency in buildings.
• Hotel School names new associate dean for external affairs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  Jon Denison has been appointed associate dean for external affairs at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, where he will provide strategic direction for alumni affairs, development, corporate affairs and communications.
• Symposium on nanomedicine to introduce new nanotech facility office at WCMC | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  To bring medical researchers closer to cutting-edge nanotechnology techniques and to help forge intercampus research collaborations, the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has opened a branch at New York's Weill Cornell Medical College.
• 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.
• CU researchers survey for rare birds among Mayan ruins | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Greg Budney, audio curator of Cornell's Macaulay Library, and other researchers from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology traveled to Guatemala's Petén region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan sites.
• Brad Bell wins award for productive, varied research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In August, associate professor of human resources studies at the ILR School Brad Bell received the first Early Career Achievement Award given by the Academy of Management's Human Resources Division.
• Old Order farmers profit from new order idea | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Six years ago Howard Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Conference Mennonite community, designed his first high tunnel. He showed the tunnel to Judson Reid, an extension associate with the Cornell Vegetable Program, who saw the advantages immediately.
• Rob Ryan '69 speaks on success, flowers and zebras | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Department of Applied Economics and Management 1210 -- Entrepreneurship Speaker Series brings entrepreneurs and others involved in personal enterprise to campus to share their thoughts on getting to the top and staying there.
• Cornell to add 11 more grad students to its life sciences fellows program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  Vice Provost for the Life Sciences Stephen Kresovich announced that due to the impact of the Presidential Life Sciences Fellows program, the Cornell administration will increase the number of fellowships to 20 from nine in the 2009-10 academic year.
• Working to keep water clean and plentiful in Greece, CU faculty reach out to international partners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A promising international partnership for solving water shortages halfway around the world was strengthened this summer by two Cornell faculty members who traveled to Greece to help raise awareness of the issue.
• Cornell 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
• Experts to dissect Obama-McCain domestic policies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  "Educate the Vote: McCain v. Obama in 3D -- Data and Debate on Domestic Policy," will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday 9/26/08 in Bailey Hall. Experts on health care, immigration and Social Security will analyze the candidates' proposals and take questions.
• Researchers locate geographic origins from DNA | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A study published online this week in Nature by a team that included Cornell researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born.
• How equal is opportunity? Seminars engage alumni in social sciences research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  One in three black children lives in poverty, in contrast to one in seven white children. Unemployment rates for blacks are consistently twice as high as they are for whites.
• Cornell Urban Scholars gain perspective, experience from summer program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Tywanquila Walker spent the summer working with families in New York City and came away with a new perspective on research and working with communities. She was part of the seventh class in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP).
• Sustainability a key word for CU at New York State Fair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability was the word of the day as Cornell President David Skorton, deans from Cornell's Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology, and Cornell Cooperative Extension...
• Law professor defends legality of controversial wars | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a new book, Cornell Law School faculty member Jens David Ohlin asks -- and answers -- one of the most debated questions of our time: When is war justified?
• Book charts trend of retirees moving to rural communities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The book, "Rural Retirement Migration" (Springer), looks at historical trends in rural retirement migration and migration from the perspectives of retirees who have moved in as well as community leaders in their destination communities.
• Entomologist Soderlund honored with research award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded David M. Soderlund, professor of insecticide toxicology , the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals.
• Population center and its demographic research boosted by $1.15 million grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Now, the program's ability to conduct demographic research at the national and international level has been boosted with a $1.15 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Kids in poverty are hurt by mom's stress and lack of social networks, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "Our findings contrast with the view that inherent, personal qualities of low-income parents are the root cause of deficient parenting," said Gary Evans, a Cornell environmental psychologist.
• French writer, German scholar and British poet named A.D. White Professors-at-Large | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has appointed Hélène Cixous, Hans Föllmer and Denise Riley as A.D. White Professors-at-Large through June 2014. Professors-at-large scheduled to visit this fall are Shri Kulkarni, Bassam Tibi, Okko Behrends, J. Craig Venter and Lakhdar Brahimi.
• University of Colorado hosts tribute for Alfred Kahn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The conference marks 30 years since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, which was spearheaded by Kahn, the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Cornell, when when he was chair of the now-defunct Civil Aeronautics Board.
• 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.
• Inaugural research forum focuses on next-generation accelerator project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg Hoffstaetter in a lecture to faculty and staff.
• 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.
• New art in Corson-Mudd combines realism, abstraction -- and biology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/04/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Visitors to Corson-Mudd Hall, greeted by swirls of textured color by Edward Heiple of Moravia and breathtaking satellite-view images of Earth by Jay Hart of Trumansburg, might momentarily forget they've entered a biology building.
• Overworking husbands drive working wives back into the home, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Youngjoo Cha, a Cornell doctoral candidate in sociology, found the phenomenon occurs among women across occupations, but the link is strongest among women with children and professional women.
• Free articles get read but don't generate more citations, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/31/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  When academic articles are free online they don't get cited more often because, suggests Cornell graduate student Philip Davis and colleagues, most researchers probably already have all the access they need to relevant articles.
• 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.
• Mannix is new vice provost for equity and inclusion | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Elizabeth A. "Beta" Mannix, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Management at Cornell's Johnson School and the Robert S. Harrison Director of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences, has been named the university's vice provost for equity and inclusion.
• 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.
• Cheyfitz named director of American Indian Program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell, has been named director of the American Indian Program (AIP), effective July 1.
• Come-hither chemicals also slow aging -- in worms, discovers Cornell researcher | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A paper published online in Nature, reports that a mixture of molecules called ascarosides, which extend life span in C. elegans worms, also acts as a sex pheromone, connecting the two seemingly disparate life processes of aging and reproduction.
• 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.
• Cornell researchers ponder feasibility of undertaking algae for biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Hosted by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, the discussion luncheon, "Improving the Stability and Productivity of Algal Bioreactors for Biofuel Production," focused on the economic and technological feasibility of algae as a source for biomass.
• 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.
• From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species, research shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By mapping developing brain cells in newly hatched midshipman fish larvae, Andrew H. Bass, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back through evolutionary time.
• Schroeder earns DuPont Young Professor grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Frank Schroeder, assistant professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell, is a recipient of the 2008 DuPont Young Professor grant for his research on the response of cellular systems to bioactive small molecules.
• Einaudi Center names new program directors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Einaudi Center has appointed 5 new program directors: Christopher Anderson, IES; Daniel Gold, South Asia Program; Jonathan Kirshner, Peace Studies Program; Sarosh Kuruvilla, Southeast Asia Program; and Ding Xiang Warner, East Asia Program.
• 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.
• Thick and thin diners differ in approach to buffet eating | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The study of diners observed at Chinese buffet restaurants across the U.S. is published in the August issue of the journal Obesity by Brian Wansink, Cornell's John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, and Collin Payne, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher.
• A new look at how genes unfold to enable their expression | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell researchers have uncovered surprising new information about the process by which genes are unwrapped and exposed so that they can be expressed.
• Cornell faculty identify climate change as world's most pressing problem, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  Climate change is the No. 1 crisis facing the world, but it is a phenomenon not easily reversed. The most important problem that is more easily solved? Insufficient education in science, critical thinking and environmental issues.
• The effects of Israel's West Bank barrier: Hopelessness, shattered lives and distrust, says Cornell scholar | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Israeli-West Bank barrier that Israel has been constructing since 2002 is damaging Palestinians' culture, education and economy, says a Cornell scholar who recently returned from four months as a Fulbright scholar.
• 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.
• Forest birds evolved in bursts, DNA shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Dan Rabosky, a graduate student at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and Professor Irby Lovette used DNA analyses to look at 5 million years of evolution in 25 species of colorful North American songbirds known as wood warblers.
• 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.
• Skorton to next U.S. president: Universities are effective diplomatic assets | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a newly published book, Cornell President David Skorton advises the next U.S. president that America's colleges and universities have potential to serve as one of the nation's "most effective and credible diplomatic assets."
• 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.
• Cornell convenes sustainability panel for hotel industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Hospitality leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., June 12, for a Cornell School of Hotel Administration event, "Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry," to hear experts address the need to further develop sustainable business practices.
• Cornell faculty, students team with entrepreneurs to brew up a hot new brand | News Release | 10/13/08 Hotel School News Release
  Faculty and students at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration are working with a team of entrepreneurs to launch a new venture that will enable more people to enjoy a brand of coffee unlike any other in the world.
• 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.
• Keeping the Commitment to the Book | Cornell Library Communications | 07/02/08 Press Release
  
  One side of the digital divide grabs most of the headlines, but in the humanities, printed material is still indispensable. A $30,000 endowment from the Class of 1956 will establish a fund to boost Cornell University’s humanities print collection.
• 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.
• Acting, singing and dancing for social change is part of new initiative at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Center for Transformative Action (CTA) has launched Performing Arts for Social Change, a new strategic initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance.
• Any Cornell researcher can use the many high-tech life science core facilities available | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center (CLC) provides an array of state-of-the-art instruments and services for experimentation that involves genomics, proteomics, imaging, IT and informatics.
• Cornell creates life-changing business opportunities with the world's poorest people | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  At the Johnson School's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise (CSGE), poverty alleviation is about business innovation that springs from close partnerships between the world's largest corporations and poor communities.
• Cornell sustainability center solicits proposals for new applied research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) is soliciting proposals for its new Academic Venture Fund program. The program will support research that advances sustainability and that shows promise for securing external funding.
• Morning sickness is pregnancy 'wellness insurance,' says Cornell professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  After testing the two dominant theories for why two-thirds of women around the world experience nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, only one holds water, says Paul Sherman, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior and a Weiss Presidential Fellow.
• Vet College's Sondermann receives Pew award to study biofilms and infections | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Holger Sondermann, the Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Sciences and Technology in the Department of Molecular Medicine in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, was recently named a 2008 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
• 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.
• Todd McGrain memorializes 'lost birds' with sculptures | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Todd McGrain, Cornell professor of art, is immortalizing five North American bird species driven to extinction: the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the great auk, the Labrador duck and the heath hen.
• Kotlikoff wins award for his research and leadership | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Michael Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
• Institute explores how to help students surf the growing waves of good and not-so-good information | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Co-sponsored by the University Library and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the weeklong institute, June 16-20, is intended to explore information avenues available at the campus libraries and to integrate these into Cornell.
• 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.
• Cornell efficiency experts seek to save precious minutes in deploying ambulances | News Release | 06/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The researchers are working on a computerized approach to estimate how best to spread ambulances across a municipality to get maximum coverage at all times.
• Deputy Provost David Harris to present seminars on social inequality to alumni | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/12/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Harris' presentation will be the first of four seminars for Cornell alumni. In his June 18 talk, he will draw from material from his forthcoming book, "The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist".
• Estrogen may play key role in prostate cancer, WCMC researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/11/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Using a breakthrough technology that reveals new data from 30-year-old samples, researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) pathologist Mark Rubin have pinpointed the hormone estrogen as a key player in about half of all prostate cancers.
• 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.
• Robert Constable, founding dean of computing and information science, will step down in 2009 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/11/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Constable led the creation of Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS), an interdisciplinary program that stretches across campus with more than 50 affiliated faculty members, each with a joint appointment in some academic department.
• 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
• Intercampus partnership takes medicine into the wild | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  An eight-day Cornell wilderness first responder course was taught by Alice Henshaw, paramedic and COE lead instructor, and Chris Tedeschi, an instructor and emergency medicine physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
• Clean, white, open spaces and lots of light: Weill Hall opens for business | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The 263,000-square-foot building, designed by architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move into offices and laboratories this month.
• 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.
• For U.S. foreign policy, change is on the way (maybe) | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Nicolas van de Walle, David Patel and Peter Katzenstein took on the question in a roundtable discussion, "American and the World: Foreign Policy Issues for the Next President," before an alumni audience June 6.
• 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.
• CALS receives national award for its bioenergy initiatives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will receive a Grand Challenge award June 19 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its vision in how it will "contribute in the emerging bio economy."
• Geri Gay's innovative work deepens digital crossroads | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Gay plays a leadership role in a dozen or so studies in the areas of social networks; influence, persuasion and games; and information-seeking. She and her colleagues use their findings to make recommendations for improving existing software.
• 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.
• Gene therapy trial offers new hope for Batten disease, a fatal neurological disease in children | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/30/2008 Chronicle feature
  Gene therapy that helps defective brain cells get rid of "garbage" appears both safe and effective at slowing down Batten disease, according to promising findings from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
• New leadership program develops prototype for performance management | Cornell news release | 05/30/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Division of Human Resources and Cornell University Finance and Administration (CUFA) joined forces this past year to offer the Harold D. Craft Leadership Program, other leadership development programs and a new capstone program, Leading Cornell.
• Cornell researchers address issues of health and poverty in Africa at U.N. meeting | Cornell news release | 05/30/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A symposium on governance in Africa at the United Nations in New York on May 21 was one of four on Africa that Cornell and the U.N. University have jointly planned for 2007-08.
• 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.
• How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  A method of generating high-power signals at frequencies of 200 GHz and higher on an ordinary silicon chip has been proposed by Ehsan Afshari, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a colleague.
• 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.
• Lab of O's Roger Slothower dies unexpectedly at age 53 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Slothower specialized in creating sophisticated maps tied to various citizen-science projects and other public databases. It is estimated that he created approximately 8 million maps.
• Michelle Wang is first researcher on Ithaca campus to be named Hughes Institute Investigator | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Biophysicist Michelle Wang has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, an honor awarded for innovative and promising biological and biomedical research.
• 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.
• Brain's gray cells appear to be changed by trauma of major events like 9/11 attack, a study suggests | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "This suggests that really bad experiences may have lasting effects on the brain, even in healthy people," said Barbara Ganzel, the study's lead researcher and postdoctoral fellow at Cornell's College of Human Ecology.
• 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."
• Web site links campuses, collaborators | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For researchers looking to forge connections between Cornell's Ithaca and New York City's campuses, a new service is available at the recently designed intercampus initiatives Web site at http://intercampusaffairs.cornell.edu/.
• Hinestroza receives federal grants to create fabrics to render toxic chemicals harmless | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts.
• 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.
• Human ecology lecturer Bill Rosen dies at age 57 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Rosen served as director of the Capitol Semester in Albany program. He also was a recipient of such prestigious awards as the New York State Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Merrill Presidential Scholar Outstanding Educator.
• 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.
• Weill Institute announces four new hires | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology has hired four outstanding young researchers: Chris Fromme, Yuxin Mao, Marcus Smolka and Fenghua Hu.
• 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.
• Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Some day, fuel cells may power your car and exhaust only water and perhaps carbon dioxide. But not today or even tomorrow.
• Cornell-Nepal Studies Program weathers a civil war and looks to the future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A peaceful political resolution to the civil war in Nepal should boost enrollment in a unique study abroad program at Cornell: The Cornell-Nepal Study Program, founded in 1993.
• Kathleen Vogel awarded Carnegie grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Kathleen Vogel, assistant professor in the Depa