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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
  
• Stimulus money to improve biological imaging | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/16/09 Chronicle feature
  
  Professor Warren Zipfel hopes to make fluorescence lifetime imaging up to 1,000 times faster and simpler to implement.
• Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers
• 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.
• Many patients lack the numerical skills to make good health decisions, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  Valerie Reyna is the lead author of a paper published in the November issue of Psychological Bulletin that reviews the research on so called "health numeracy," the ability to understand and use numerical information related to medical outcomes.
• 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.
• Researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2009 Chronicle Feature
  
  Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semi-conducting , and a Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.
• 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.
• Library collaboration with China strengthens scholarship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell University Library and Tsinghua University Library in China cemented a formal collaboration during an Oct. 29, 2009 ceremony on Cornell's campus.
• 'Temporal telescope' compresses optical signals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious method to time-compress optical signals. The process could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second.
• 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.
• Crash, bang, rumble! Bringing noise to virtual worlds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell computer scientists Doug James and graduate students Jeffrey Chadwick and Steven An have developed a practical method to generate the crashing and rumbling sounds of objects made up of thin "harmonic shells."
• Jonathan Butcher delivers young investigator lecture | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Butcher was invited to give the Rita Schaffer Memorial Lectureduring the BMES 2009 annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 7-10. Butcher talked about engineering breakthroughs that could complement genetic programs for combating cardiovascular disease.
• 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.
• Pinstrup-Andersen named No. 1 Dane for fighting poverty | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen has been named "the most important Dane in the world" in combating poverty in developing countries by an independent panel for Udvikling (Development), Denmark's leading development magazine.
• 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.
• NIH awards more than $2 million to Cornell for studying women in sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  Two Cornell research teams have each received National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to identify factors influencing the careers of women in biomedical and behavioral sciences and engineering.
• 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.
• New technique for making thin electronics supported by stimulus funds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  The National Science Foundation's Materials World Network program is supporting Cornell scientists who have invented a reliable way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography.
• 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).
• Tuberculosis researcher gets boost from stimulus funds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  By better understanding the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium's physiology, David Russell hopes to develop therapies that use biological pathways to kill the pernicious bug.
• Cornell Library forges landmark collaboration with Columbia's library | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $385,000 to the libraries at Cornell and Columbia University to develop a new partnership that has the potential to become the most expansive collaboration to date between two major research libraries.
• Belmonte uses video games to explore facets of autism | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Unlike much of the current research on autism, which isolates and tests a single domain, Belmonte designed the user-friendly video games with embedded tasks that test childern with autism along with their unaffected siblings across multiple domains.
• Jamie Lloyd hunts for new planets, seeking clues on solar system's origin | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets or exoplanets.
• 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.
• Rover team works to get Spirit unstuck, as Opportunity trucks along toward massive crater | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover unstuck. This has involved many hours of maneuvering a test rover back on Earth in a manufactured patch of soil.
• 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.
• Cornell's self-driving car -- and Segways -- to get smarter with stimulus/NSF funding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Although Cornell's self-driving car didn't win the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007, it is alive and well and soon to become safer and more talented -- it will soon be a test bed for new research in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Squyres wins Carl Sagan Medal for public outreach | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  For his work making the Mars Exploration Rover mission a compelling saga for millions of people, Steven W. Squyres has received the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal. The Sagan medal recognizes a planetary scientist for excellence in public communication
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Four professors collaborate with small businesses in JumpStart program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  Four New York small businesses have been selected to receive JumpStart awards with the Cornell Center for Materials Research for the fall semester. The CCMR JumpStart program is funded by NYSTAR to help small New York businesses improve their products.
• Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops.
• As Jefferson fellow, Paul Kintner to spend the year at the State Department | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Kintner, who heads Cornell's GPS Laboratory, is spending this academic year in Washington, D.C., working in the State Department's Office of Space and Advanced Technology and Office of International Communications and Information Policy.
• New public database developed at Cornell can help verify protein structures | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  A research team led by Harold A. Scheraga has created a comprehensive computational database that can quickly determine the quality of a protein structure by comparing observed and predicted chemical shifts.
• 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.
• Trustee endows Bethe House professor-deanship in Dale Corson's name | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The post of house professor-dean of Hans Bethe House has been named in honor of Cornell's eighth president, Dale R. Corson, thanks to a $2 million gift from university trustee Robert Harrison '76.
• 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.
• Cornell uses DVD to train vet students in clinical procedures | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Dog was developed by Luis Campoy, Jodi Korich, and Abraham Bezuidenhout. The DVD course has been accredited by the RACE American Association of Veterinary State Boards.
• 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.
• Paleontologist discovers 3-D secrets of Middle Age designs of Kells' 'angels' | 09/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork leading a later scholar to call them "works not of men, but of angels."
• Students team up with Nike to study running apparel | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Professor Susan Ashdown and a class of 10 apparel design students set up a study that used the College of Human Ecology's 3-D body scanner to assess the fit and wear of the garments for a wide range of body types.
• 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.
• Five awarded National Science Foundation early career awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  Five members of the faculty have received NSF Early Career Development Awards, given periodically to junior faculty members to fund specific research projects. The grants also support educational or outreach programs related to the scientists' research.
• Prehistoric tools and artifacts discovered at Isles of Shoals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Summer students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell's marine field station, have discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals, six miles off the Maine and New Hampshire coast.
• Superconductivity 'fingerprint' found at higher temperatures | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  New measurements have shown that "high-temperature" superconductors may have the potential to go even higher, offering the possibility of creating room-temperature superconductors, or superconductors that will work with conventional refrigeration.
• Interior design now has a language all its own | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have produced the first searchable, online database for contemporary design with imagery from real buildings. The project is called Intypes for the Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project,
• José Martínez and Kevin Tang receive IBM Faculty Awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations.
• $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.
• Creating delivery routes for scaled-down campus, distance-learning students get primer on systems engineering | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "We can teach a great deal via distance learning," said lecturer and distance learning program coordinator David Schneider, "but there are certain group activities where the students truly benefit from being physically here."
• 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.
• Cornell synchrotron unveils long-hidden Wyeth painting | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Chemist and art conservation expert Jennifer L. Mass, M.S. '92, Ph.D. '95 collaborated with scientists at CHESS and others, using confocal X-ray fluorescence to extract the colors of a painting by N.C. Wyeth that had been hidden under another painting.
• '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.
• 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.
• Cancer drugs' skyrocketing costs are worth the price, Cornell report finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  The cost for chemotherapy medications to treat colorectal cancer for six months has jumped 2,600 percent from 1993 to 2005. But such rising costs are worth the price, asserts a new study, when improved longevity and quality of life are taken into account.
• 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.
• Second-graders learn to 'think like scientists' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Thinking Like a Scientist (TLAS) project is an ongoing educational outreach program developed by Cornell human development professor Wendy Williams.
• 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.
• NSF grant opens gateway to vast computing resources | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/27/2009 Chronicle feature
  A new National Science Foundation grant awarded to two ILR School researchers will create a Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid -- the NSF's national supercomputing infrastructure.
• 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.
• New eCornell online certificate program teaches the systems approach to develop products and services | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  The new course was developed by professor Peter Jackson. His approach combines systems engineering with the best of the popular "Six Sigma" management technique, and focuses on the end users and what the product or service will do for them.
• 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.
• Cornell astronomers recall exhilaration of Apollo 11, look to future of spaceflight | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/20/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  History lessons, personal remembrances and speculation on the future of manned spaceflight were all part of Cornell and Ithaca's July 18 celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, hosted by the Cornell Department of Astronomy.
• 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.
• Microsoft-supported research could secure online voting | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Rafael Pass has been selected as one of five 2009 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows. His fellowship will support research into new ways to conduct transactions safely and reliably in such situations as auctions and anonymous online voting.
• 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.
• Tracking the life and death of news | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, postdoctoral researcher Jure Leskovec and graduate student Lars Backstrom tracked 1.6 million online news sites, one of the largest analyses anywhere of online news.
• 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.
• Jim Bell to speak at international conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Bell, who leads the Pancam team for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission -- now in its sixth year -- will give a talk titled "Water on Planets" at the International Astronomical Union's general assembly, Aug. 3-14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• '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.
• Stephen Pope receives fluid dynamics prize from APS | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The highest honor awarded by the American Physical Society in fluid dynamics, the prize recognizes outstanding achievements over a career.
• 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.
• Paul Bowser earns career achievement award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Paul Bowser, professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, was presented the S.F. Snieszko Distinguished Service Award at the 50th annual Western Fish Disease Workshop and American Fisheries Society (AFS) Fish Health Section Annual Meeting.
• 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.
• With ERL prototype on display, Wilson Lab teems with children and adults at open house | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A highlight of the June 27, 2009 open house was the public's first glimpse at a prototype electron beam injector, which would eventually become part of Cornell's new particle accelerator called the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL).
• 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.
• New grant explores link between diet and aging | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Shu-Bing Qian, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, has received the Ellison Medical Foundation's New Scholar Award for his work on how diet affects the aging process at the molecular level.
• 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.
• Séamus Davis to receive prestigious prize for superconductivity experiments | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  J.C. Séamus Davis, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell, will receive the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments.
• 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.
• Apparel design graduate wins at international conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Xiaopei "Jennifer" Wu '08 from Cornell's Fiber Science & Apparel Design (FSAD) program was awarded the top design prize in the International Surface Design Association's student exhibition last month.
• 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.
• Cornell expert urges Congress to spend more to protect against 'serious risk' of earthquakes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell expert on the effect of earthquakes on buildings and infrastructure has urged Congress to continue and expand funding for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), because the nation "faces serious earthquake risk."
• 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.
• Money can't buy weight loss, finds Cornell study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  PAM professor John Cawley and graduate student Joshua A. Price examined the effects of a yearlong program that offered cold cash for pounds lost, the majority of the obese volunteers in the study dropped out within the year.
• 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.
• Interdisciplinary computer scientist Daniel Huttenlocher named new dean of CIS | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Daniel P. Huttenlocher has been named the university's dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS). He succeeds Robert L. Constable, who is stepping down June 30, when his second five-year term concludes.
• 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.
• Cornell expert tells Congress that more basic research in cybersecurity is critical | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "Our defenses improve only after they have been successfully penetrated," said professor Fred B. Schneider in testimony before the Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology, June 10 in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• Study links daily racial hassles and stress spillover to psychological distress | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Many studies have shown that experiencing chronic racial discrimination chips away at the mental health of African-Americans. But a new Cornell study sheds light on precisely how -- and to what effect -- chronic racial discrimination erodes mental health.
• 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.
• It doesn't take a McMansion to have the perfect space for family interaction | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  America's housing bust is forcing many families to downsize their living situations. Losing a home or squeezing into a much smaller one is a painful experience, but one silver lining may be that it's pushing us to consider just how much house we need.
• 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.
• Easily grossed out? You're more likely a conservative, says Cornell psychologist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  If you are easily disgusted by things you are sensitive to, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies.
• 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.
• Computer graphics researchers simulate the sounds of water and other liquids | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  This work is the first step in a broader research program on sound synthesis supported by a $1.2 million grant from the Human Centered Computing Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Cornell researchers discover key regulator of fat cell development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell scientists have discovered how two related proteins and their roles in a key molecular pathway are critical to creating obesity-causing fat. Targeting the proteins, known as IRE1alpha and XBP1, could lead to drug therapies to fight obesity.
• 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.
• Staying together 'for the sake of the kids' doesn't necessarily help them, says study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Kelly Musick is the lead author of a study that looked at how teenagers in 1,963 households in the National Survey of Families and Households fared from their teens to early 30s.
• 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.
• Library lifts restrictions on public domain books | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  Users are no longer required to seek permission to copy and use public domain material digitized by Cornell University Library and posted on Cornell's Web sites. The new rules also apply to materials Cornell supplies to the Internet Archive.
• 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.
• Regenerative medicine expert Evans joins WCMC Department of Surgery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Todd Evans, an international authority in regenerative medicine, has been appointed vice chair for research and professor of cell and developmental biology in the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC).
• 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.
• Opportunity's 'drivers' report rich body of research from Mars crater as twin rover Spirit gets bogged down | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Mars rover Opportunity's two-year exploration of Victoria Crater has yielded a wealth of information about the planet's geologic history -- and supported previous findings indicating that water once flowed on the planet's surface.
• 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.
• Merrill scholars honor high school, Cornell teachers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honors 32 seniors this month and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
• 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.
• Butcher wins $10,000 for clearly explaining 3D X-rays | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The competing researchers covered many projects. but assistant professor of biomedical engineering Jonathan Butcher did the best job explaining his work, on 3D X-rays, at Cornell's Third Annual Public Engagement and Science Communication Symposium.
• 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.
• Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2009 Chronicle feature
• 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.
• Game Design Expo is about fun, games and grades | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in game-design courses end the semester with a public event where hundreds of visitors come to watch and play the computer games they have created.
• 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.
• The Harry Potter effect: Cornell researchers experiment with making objects 'invisible' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  So far the illusion works only at the nanoscale, but the researchers suggest that the basic principle might eventually be scaled up for military and communications applications, or perhaps used in reverse to concentrate solar energy.
• Eight on faculty named fellows of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2009 Chronicle feature
  Eight Cornell faculty members have been named to the inaugural class of fellows of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The fellows program honors SIAM members recognized by their peers as distinguished contributors to the discipline.
• 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.
• Hopcroft, Siggia elected to National Academy of Sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  John E. Hopcroft, the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, and Eric Siggia, adjunct professor of physics are two of 72 new members being recognized for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
• 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.
• National Science Foundation grant focuses on baby talk | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Assistant psychology professor Michael Goldstein will use the grant to continue his work at Cornell's Behavioral Analysis of Beginning Years (BABY) Laboratory.
• 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?
• Einaudi Center invests in junior faculty research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants as part of the Winter 2009 Seed Grant Competition. Funded projects will complement the center's foreign policy and international development initiatives.
• Kleinberg wins $150,000 computer science prize | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/05/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Jon Kleinberg is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques that allow billions of Web users worldwide to find relevant, credible information on the Internet.
• 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.
• PBS film examines career of CU renegade Tommy Gold | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell professor who helped NASA put men on the moon, recruited Carl Sagan to the Cornell faculty and advanced many controversial theories is the subject of a documentary, "Renegade Genius: The Story of Tommy Gold," which will air on PBS stations.
• Supersolid or superglass? Cornell researchers study a strange state of matter in helium | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  In fact, helium-4 may be a superglass, report J.C. Séamus Davis, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell and colleagues in the May 1 issue of the journal Science.
• 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.
• Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/28/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Analysis of nearly 35 million Flickr photos, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, provides a new and practical way to automatically organize, label and summarize large-scale collections of digital images.
• 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.
• Medical devices for damaged corneas crowned as top Venture Challenge business idea | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/23/09 Chronicle Feature
  
  Medical devices that are a low-cost alternative to corneal transplants won the Johnson School's Venture Challenge competition, held April 16.
• 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.
• Green architect likens rights of nature to rights of man | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  World-renowned architect and designer William McDonough has a practical utopian vision for environmentally sound design, from green buildings to zero-waste cities.
• Cornell University Library contest celebrates student book collections | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Book collections about guinea pigs, atheism, the legal culture of medieval Europe and the Buckley language of politics were just a few of the book collections submitted in Cornell's seventh annual Book Collection Contest, sponsored by CUL.
• 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.
• Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory could be the long-term result of collaborative research led by Cornell materials scientist Darrell Schlom.
• 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.
• Weill Cornell's Lamon earns Hartwell fellowship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  Brian Lamon's current research focus is on the regulation and role of cyclooxygenase in inflammatory vascular disease.
• 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.
• Skorton designated a 'master' of American College of Cardiology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell President David J. Skorton, who is a prominent cardiologist, was awarded the Master of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) designation. Typically, the ACC bestows the honor of master on one or two of its more than 15,000 members each year.
• 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."
• Geddes to spend six months in Australia on Fulbright scholarship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Associate professor of policy analysis and management Rick Geddes will examine the lessons that can be applied to the U.S. from Australia's use of private investment in financing transportation infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and tunnels.
• 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.
• Hopcroft, Halpern, Myers receive ACM awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  Professors Joseph Halpern and John Hopcroft were among the winners of the Association for Computing Machinery annual awards for 2008, while Andrew Myers Myers received the ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential Principles of Programming Languages Paper Award.
• 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.
• Call us MacCornell: University now has its own tartan | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Design League Fashion Show debuted Cornell's official tartan. The plaid makes Cornell the only Ivy League school to have its own tartan registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority.
• 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.
• 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.
• Schaffer wins biomedical engineering teaching award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Chris Schaffer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
• Move over, Newton: Scientifically ignorant computer derives natural laws from raw data | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Associate professor Hod Lipson and graduate student Michael Schmidt have taught a computer to find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws -- without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer.
• 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.
• New Vet College multimedia resource helps protect poultry and human health | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A three-hour instructional DVD series and Web-based interactive diagnostic tool, called Poultry Examination and Diagnostics, was produced by veterinarians at Cornell and funded by an educational contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• New biofuel lab focuses on turning bales into barrels | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell made a giant leap toward solving the current energy crisis and reversing man-made climate change when researchers moved into the new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory (BRL) earlier this semester.
• Ralph Christy named director of CIIFAD | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/30/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD).
• 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.
• Arecibo pulsar survey is using 50,000 PCs worldwide to generate supercomputing power | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The PALFA Survey, a sky survey using the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) - a system of detectors with seven feeds that enables imaging large swaths of sky - has joined forces with Einstein@Home, an effort based at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Physicist Berkelman dies; led Cornell's Lab of Nuclear Studies during pivotal years | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  An experimentalist who measured the properties of nature's smallest particles, Berkelman was widely recognized for his ability to design and conduct experiments that tested complex theoretical concepts to the highest precision possible.
• 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.
• Burns named to Royal Astronomical Society | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Joe Burns has been named an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his contributions to the field of astronomy. He is one of six fellows recognized this year worldwide.
• By manipulating developing chick embryos, researcher is able to probe congenital heart defects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Jonathan Butcher's research looks at the way mechanical forces like blood pressure, blood velocity and the stretching and contracting of the heart muscle influence embryonic heart valve development.
• 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.
• Commemoration of Ed Salpeter planned for March 14 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The astronomy and physics departments will celebrate the life of Cornell astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. in Barnes Hall. The program includes keynote talks by theoretical physicists Freeman Dyson, Kip Thorne and Lars Bildsten.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cornell and Amazon.com join to resurrect 90,000 rare books via print-on-demand | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The books being added reflect Cornell's subject strengths, including American history, English literature, astronomy, wine, engineering, home economics, hospitality, labor relations, Native American materials, ornithology, and veterinary medicine.
• 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.
• Artery stiffness may change cell behavior and contribute to atherosclerosis, researcher finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cynthia Reinhart-King, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Cornell, is investigating atherosclerosis with hopes of finding new ways to treat it.
• 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.
• Modeling the Internet from the top down, but keeping sight of small details | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  The three Cornell researchers plan to develop large-scale models that recognize the small details, using what they call a "computational-analytic" approach.
• Gary Evans to serve on national board | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 02/24/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Gary W. Evans has been appointed to the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academy of Sciences. The national board makes policy recommendations related to the health and development of children, youth and families.
• 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.
• Research seeks to prevent additional long-term damage following heart attack | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Robin Davisson, a recipient of an AHA Established Investigator Award, and colleagues are piecing together clues about how the nervous system works- with hopes of finding ways to return it to normal after a heart attack and preventing further damage.
• At AAAS, Cornell physicists stress need to maintain U.S. prominence in accelerator science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell physicists Maury Tigner and Ernest Fontes spoke on the potential and future of accelerator-based science at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, Ill.
• 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.
• Both Mars rovers keep on rolling, despite Spirit's recent 'benign event' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  The Mars rover Spirit is ambling along just fine, after a recently reported glitch that turned out to be a minor "benign event," according to Steven Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Planetary Science and science team leader for the Mars rover mission.
• 'Joy of Cooking' supersizes and packs more calories into home cooking | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  By examining the 18 recipes that have been continuously published in "The Joy of Cooking" since 1936, Professor Brian Wansink and former postdoctoral researcher Collin Payne found that the average calories per serving have jumped 63% in the past 70 years.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Negative emotion more likely to cause false memories, researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The new research has implications for the accuracy of legal testimony in criminal cases and how interviews and interrogations in violent cases could be better conducted.
• New ISS director Ken Roberts encourages disparate faculty to team up | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/03/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Ken Roberts views his main task as the new director of the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) as bringing together researchers with similar interests from various disciplines who otherwise might not meet.
• Cornell Population Program applies demographics to improving people's lives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/02/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Population Program (CPP) is a universitywide multidisciplinary program with strong support from the College of Human Ecology and spanning 16 Cornell departments.
• 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.
• '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.
• Magic tricks and ticking sculptures thrill children in Light in Winter's Hall of Wonders | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Mike Stanley and Mickey Mars delighted scores of families and community members with their card, coin, rubber band and puzzle tricks. As children laughed in disbelief, Stanley asserted, "That's what happens when magic and science combine."
• Researcher to elderly: Focus on 'gut feelings' to improve decision making | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  According to Cornell psychologist Joseph Mikels, "One way older adults may be able to compensate for declines in memory and other important decision-making processes is through preserved emotional skills."
• 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.
• Culture, not biology, drives evolution of language, Cornell psychologist claims | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/22/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Language is a hallmark of humans, a species unique in the animal kingdom for its linguistic complexity, flexibility and expression. But professor Morten H. Christiansen challenges the idea that human language stems from a genetic blueprint.
• 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."
• Cornell-led team detects dust around a primitive star, shedding new light on universe's origins | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/15/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell research associate Greg Sloan led the study, which was based on observations with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The researchers used Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph, which was developed 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.
• Undergraduate architecture program reclaims top ranking | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/14/2009 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's bachelor's program in architecture received the top ranking for the fourth time in five years in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence (DI) magazine. The M.Arch. and both Interior design programs also received high marks.
• Coat that cushions falls, machine to put pants on: Students cook up concepts to help elderly | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To improve the lives of senior citizens, students have developed concepts for a machine that allows seniors to put on pants without bending over, a winter coat that protects during a fall and a jacket that is easy to put on and take off in a wheelchair.
• eLab grows student businesses and new connections | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  The eLab, directed by Dan Cohen, eLab's entrepreneur-in-residence, started with three teams of seniors last spring. One of those companies, wiggio.com, has since secured $500,000 in seed stage funding and launched its beta site.
• Chantal Thomas named director of Clarke Initiative | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Chantal Thomas, a Cornell Law School professor with expertise in the Middle East, northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, has been appointed director of the school's newly renamed Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East.
• Light in Winter brings science, art and magic to Ithaca | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The festival, now in its sixth year, will also bring illusion, astronomy, origami, musical brainwaves, the science of caffeine and wine, dance, multimedia, and classical and electronic music to Ithaca. More than two dozen events are scheduled.
• Visual computing expert Tsuhan Chen leads School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/12/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  "[Cornell's] depth and history immediately got my attention," Chen said. "But what really impressed me is how the faculty have stayed so dynamic over the years, constantly finding new ways to do things -- staying out in front."
• 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."
• Saylor named associate university librarian | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  John Saylor, who manages the Cornell University Library's materials budget and collection development, will become associate university librarian for scholarly resources and special collections Feb. 1.
• While supporting others' research, CNF's Derek Stewart pursues his own in nanoscale heat transfer | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Quick dissipation of heat at the smallest, most fundamental scales of electronic devices is just one way that the work of Derek Stewart may someday change the face of computing and other electronics.
• 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
• 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.
• Birds pop up and sing in new book | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "Birdscapes: A Pop-Up Celebration of Bird Songs in Stereo Sound" by Miyoko Chu of the Lab of Ornithology with illustrations by Julia Hargreaves, delivers an immersion birding experience never before seen -- or heard -- in any book.
• 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.
• Flap like a butterfly, hover like a bumblebee: Student's flapping wing vehicle is more stable than a helicopter | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have come up with a simple, inexpensive flapping wing vehicle that hovers as well as a hummingbird or a bumblebee -- and might eventually be made just as small.
• 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.
• Cornell Perspectives: A life worth living: The science of human flourishing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Anthony Ong, assistant professor of human development, recently was awarded the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Early Career Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology and the Springer Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association.
• 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.
• Edwin Salpeter, whose theories revolutionized astrophysics, dies at 83 | Cornell Chronicle feature | Saltpeter Obituary
  
  Salpeter was the J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences Emeritus at Cornell University. A self-described "generalist" whose intellectual passions ranged widely, he tackled describing the physics of the universe.