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• 100-mile-per-gallon car and climate-related campus courses showcased at Duffield exhibition | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell efforts to address climate change were showcased at the one-year anniversary of President David Skorton's signing of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (PCC).
• $6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Laboratory that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels.
• A fruit a day may keep Alzheimer's at bay, suggests new Cornell study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  Eating more apples, bananas and oranges just may help stave off such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, suggests a new Cornell study published online in the Journal of Food Science.
• Agriculture's impact far more than economic, study says | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  Agriculture improves quality of life by preserving open spaces for wildlife and bucolic views, providing a buffer to development and offering recreational access and a local source of fresh food, while preserving a highly valued heritage and traditions.
• 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.
• 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.
• Alice Pell named vice provost for international relations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Alice N. Pell, Cornell professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), has been named vice provost for international relations, effective July 1. She has been director of CIIFAD since 2005.
• American Indian Program expands opportunities for engagement, scholarship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/25/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  AIP students will attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this year. The AIP has also joined the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and acquired the Huntington Free Library collection of Native American materials.
• 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.
• 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."
• Andrew and Ann Tisch give $35 million for faculty recruitment and retention | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell trustee Andrew H. Tisch '71 and wife Ann are giving Cornell $35 million to establish the Tisch University Professorships, allowing the university to honor and retain current faculty members and recruit the most talented scholars and researchers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Weill Hall and institute dedicated in celebration of 'an icon for our future' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Oct. 16 dedication of the state-of-the-art building and the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology marked the conclusion of a day of festivities -- and the culmination of years of effort.
• 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.
• 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.
• Behavioral ecology conference offers special pricing for Cornellians | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Register by Aug. 1 at the ISBE Web site, http://www.isbe2008cornell.org/program_talk.php.
• Behaviorists discover within male loons' yodel, a code that settles issues of life and death | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Imagine if an intruder entered your home, took the place of your spouse and you carried on with life as if nothing had changed. Such is the habit of loons that live on small lakes.
• 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 .
• 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.
• Sustainability a key word for CU at New York State Fair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability was the word of the day as Cornell President David Skorton, deans from Cornell's Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology, and Cornell Cooperative Extension...
• 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.
• Key component of Earth's crust formed from moving, molten rock, Cornell researchers discover | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A team of Cornell researchers has created a mathematical computer model of the formation of granulite, a fine-grained metamorphic rock, in the Earth's crust.
• Butternut squash seed oil goes to market -- thanks to Cornell's Food Venture Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  What's a farmer to do with the pounds of waste generated when his butternut squash is processed? One New York farmer had the brainstorm to contact the New York State Food Venture Center (FVC) at Cornell.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CALS receives national award for its bioenergy initiatives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will receive a Grand Challenge award June 19 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its vision in how it will "contribute in the emerging bio economy."
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CU faculty can now work with regional ecosystem unit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has been accepted as a member of the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GLNF CESU).
• 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.
• 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.
• CU researchers survey for rare birds among Mayan ruins | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Greg Budney, audio curator of Cornell's Macaulay Library, and other researchers from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology traveled to Guatemala's Petén region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan sites.
• 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.
• CU students help celebrate a new chapter in Honduran town of Támara -- the promise of clean, treated water | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  As part of Cornell's AguaClara Project, students spent last semester designing a water plant that will soon bring clean, treated water to Támara.
• Cornell engineering students break down science of water plant technology for Hondurans | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  As part of Cornell's AguaClara Project, students acted out the process of flocculation for municipal leaders of Ciudad España, a mixed-income community built after Hurricane Mitch destroyed thousands of Honduran homes in 1998.
• 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.
• 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.
• Campus going greener than expected, with new goal of reducing carbon emissions by one-third by 2010 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has calculated how much carbon it emits. The inventory reveals that the university expects to reduce its central utilities emissions by almost one-third by 2010- exceeding its goal of being 7% below 1990 carbon emission levels by 2012.
• Campus more diverse than decade ago, but challenges remain, vice provost reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has made significant strides in the past decade in attracting, hiring and retaining women and minorities, reported Robert L. Harris Jr., vice provost for diversity and faculty development, in his ninth and final report on the university's progress
• 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.
• 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.
• Chemicals from fires may increase risk of breast cancer in women firefighters | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Firefighters can be exposed to toxic chemicals every time they respond to a call. Many of those chemicals are known to increase the risk of breast cancer, report two Cornell researchers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chinese researchers travel to Cornell for sustainability workshop | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/05/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Researchers from China's Tsinghua University traveled to Cornell for the third Cornell-Tsinghua Joint Workshop, April 29-30.
• Class-sized sod sofa satisfies whims, builds teams | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/21/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in the Art of Horticulture created a giant piece of lawn furniture in the pond area of the F.R. Newman Arboretum. They shoveled, shaped and sodded a truck-sized sod sofa.
• Class sustainability project tackles a greener Hollister Hall | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  A group of engineering management master's students took the call for reducing Cornell's carbon footprint to heart, dedicating their fall 2007 master of engineering project to a new plan for increasing energy efficiency in buildings.
• Climate change, aflatoxin and biochar: Sustainability center funds its first research projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF), founded in 2007, announced its inaugural Academic Venture Fund awards Oct. 17, funded by the center's 2008 budget of almost $3 million from alumni gifts.
• Clinton praises CU green energy initiative but declines skateboard trial | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The senator stopped by Syracuse's City Hall July 2 for an alternative energy forum that featured exhibits by Comet, e2e, the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative (CURBI), and a dozen regional companies and partnerships.
• Collaborative team will uncover architecture, social life in ancient cities on Cyprus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell-Ithaca College team of interdisciplinary researchers will combine social archaeology with physics, environmental psychology, architecture, planning and urban geography to study Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Maroni, two Late Bronze Age sites.
• Discovery by CU scientist shows that shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl has chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed.
• How campus researchers helped to rescue a rain forest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/17/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rain forests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences (BTI) on the Cornell campus are attempting what many thought was impossible- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem.
• 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."
• Conference promotes podcars for 'personal rapid transit' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  PRT enthusiasts from as near as EcoVillage on West Hill and as far away as Sweden and Brazil converged on Statler Hall, Sept. 14-16, for the Second Annual Sustainable Transportation Conference.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cornell efficiency experts seek to save precious minutes in deploying ambulances | News Release | 06/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The researchers are working on a computerized approach to estimate how best to spread ambulances across a municipality to get maximum coverage at all times.
• Cornell experts participate in Empire Farm Days, Aug. 5-7 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences welcomes the public to its annual Empire Farm Days, the largest outdoor agricultural fair in the Northeast, to be held Aug. 5-7 at Rodman Lott and Son Farms, Route 414 in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
• Cornell faculty identify climate change as world's most pressing problem, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  Climate change is the No. 1 crisis facing the world, but it is a phenomenon not easily reversed. The most important problem that is more easily solved? Insufficient education in science, critical thinking and environmental issues.
• Cornell food scientists awarded $1.67 million to improve fresh food safety | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  The grant, awarded by the USDA's National Integrated Food Safety Initiative, will allow the research team to examine all of the practices and procedures used by every component of the food industry.
• Cornell gets $10 million federal grant to establish new institute applying computing to sustainability | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Institute for Computational Sustainability is being launched at Cornell, under a program designed to pursue "far-reaching research agendas that promise significant advances in the computing frontier and great benefit to society
• College announces plans for on-campus teaching winery | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell has announced plans to launch a 2,400-square-foot teaching winery at the Cornell Orchards this fall to enhance the education of tomorrow's enologists and viticulturists.
• 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 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.
• Cornell-initiated course promotes rice expertise for the developing world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A course at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, seeks to encourage some of the world's brightest young scientists to consider careers bridging research with applications in developing nations.
• Cornell launches Center for Comparative and Population Genomics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To highlight the growing importance of the study of genome variation and Cornell's expertise in the field, the university has launched the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics.
• Cornell launches Center for Teaching Excellence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has launched the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) as of July 1. The new center will work to strengthen teaching across campus in a multitude of ways.
• Mann Library upgrades ag 'library in a box' for world's poorest countries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Mann Library has just issued an upgraded version of the digital database of journal articles that includes the last 15 years or so of most journals and such features as advanced searches, browsing, saving and indexing.
• Cornell online videos tell young women to avoid certain cosmetics and plastics that may increase breast-cancer risk | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To explain to young women why these everyday products should be avoided, Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) has produced and posted three short online videos.
• Cornell partners with Indian university to offer innovative degree in food science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The world's food supply will be a little safer after students graduate from a dual degree program in food science now offered by Cornell and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in India.
• Cornell partners with other schools to promote New York's solar energy industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/18/08 Chronicle feature
  Cornell will join five other New York universities in providing research support to The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC).
• 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.
• Cornell receives more than $5.5 million from USDA for Bangladesh Food for Progress project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/13/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell program will seek to implement solutions to environmental constraints to agricultural production in Bangladesh, including acidic soils and groundwater issues.
• Cornell 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 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 ponder feasibility of undertaking algae for biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Hosted by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, the discussion luncheon, "Improving the Stability and Productivity of Algal Bioreactors for Biofuel Production," focused on the economic and technological feasibility of algae as a source for biomass.
• Cornell's Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Project Budbreak, created by David Weinstein, a Cornell senior research associate in natural resources, uses the power of citizen scientists to gather wide-ranging data about how climate change is affecting plant life.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cornell sustainability center solicits proposals for new applied research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) is soliciting proposals for its new Academic Venture Fund program. The program will support research that advances sustainability and that shows promise for securing external funding.
• Cornell tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to spearhead next green revolution | Cornell news release | 09/20/2005 Cornell News Release
  
  Awarded more than $8.2 million in federal funding over four years through the recent signing of the federal Transportation Bill, Cornell has been tapped by the federal government as one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence.
• Cornell 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cornell transfer program expands to community colleges | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  To expand Cornell's Pathway to Success Community College Partnership program, which helps community college students transfer to top four-year institutions, the university is adding three new colleges, all located in the New York City area, as partners.
• Cornell 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.
• 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.
• Cracking the code of chemical signaling: Frank Schroeder chases the structures of life's small molecules | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/15/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell research associate Frank Schroeder's work is making him an emerging leader in the nascent field of chemical ecology, the study of chemicals involved in the interactions of organisms.
• Critic speaks on urban design at Trancik retirement event | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Architecture critic Robert Campbell's Sept. 12 talk, "Do Cities Need Designers?" honored the retirement of Roger Trancik after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning (CRP) and landscape architecture.
• Crop scientist Raymond Sheldrake dies at 85 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sheldrake, who developed (with colleague James Boodley) the soil-less horticultural mix known as Cornell peatlite, served on the faculty of Cornell's Department of Vegetable Crops from 1954 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1979.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Derek Warner gets U.S. Navy grant to perform atomic modeling of aluminum in ships | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded Derek Warner, Cornell assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, a $277,000 grant to help build better, more durable ships.
• Cornell Perspective: Why new U.S. biofuel legislation is on track to waste billions of tax dollars, while subsidizing oil consumption | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  New U.S. energy legislation mandates the use of renewable fuel but calls for continuing current biofuel subsidies that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
• 'Farm kid from Wisconsin' fights bugs with bugs and oversees $5 million for research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Mike Hoffmann, Cornell professor of entomology and director of Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) is creating a "culture of sustainability" for the station's facilities and employees.
• DiTommaso reaps teaching award from weed society | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell associate professor of crop and soil science, has been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Teacher Award from the Weed Science Society of America.
• 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.
• 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.
• Duke University Press joins Cornell Library to enhance 'Project Euclid' in supporting independent journals online | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell University Library has partnered with Duke University Press to expand the services of Project Euclid, the premier online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers.
• 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."
• Eating less, eating local and eating better could slash U.S. energy use, CU study finds | News Release | 08/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half, says a study authored by David Pimentel and former undergraduates Sean Williamson, Courtney Alexander, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Caitlin Kontak and Steven Mulkey, all Class of 2007.
• 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.
• 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
• Engineering Dean Kent Fuchs named CU's 15th provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  W. Kent Fuchs, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell since 2002, will be the university's next provost, President David Skorton announced today. Fuchs will assume the office Jan. 1, 2009.
• As the Big Red goes green, climate conference builds bridges across campus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/07/2008 Chronicle Feature
  The Cornell University Climate Change Conference in Kennedy Hall was designed to build bridges across disciplines and departments, so faculty and staff could learn what others are doing and collaborate.
• Engineering teaching institute supports faculty with innovative classroom ideas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Leaders of the new College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Institute hope faculty will take advantage of ideas to make their material more meaningful to students and to expand their repertoire of teaching methods.
• Entomologist Soderlund honored with research award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded David M. Soderlund, professor of insecticide toxicology , the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals.
• Entomologist edits new book on sustainable pest control | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "Integration of Insect-Resistant Genetically Modified Crops Within IPM Programs," co-edited by Anthony Shelton, informs the debate about using genetically modified (GM) or transgenic crops to control pests.
• '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.
• 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.
• Evolution given a closer look at second Darwin Day celebration | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 2/14/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Dodos, eugenics, fossils, the human brain and even literary criticism were topics of discussion during Ithaca's second annual Darwin Day celebration held at the Paleontological Research Institution's (PRI) Museum of the Earth and Cornell, Feb. 8-12.
• 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.
• Faculty Institute for Diversity members take on task of diversifying curricula | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity met June 1-4 at a conference, organized by Cornell's Center for Learning and Teaching and the University Diversity Council, to focus on how faculty can incorporate elements of diversity into courses by fall 2010
• Cornell forms University Diversity Council to create a more inclusive campus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/08/2006 Chronicle Feature
  Cornell has announced the formation of a University Diversity Council (UDC) to deepen and reinvigorate the university's commitment to creating and sustaining an inclusive campus community.
• Faculty, staff, student, alumni members elected Cornell University Board of Trustees | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Board of Trustees helps determine major policy directions for the university. Cornell is one of the few universities across the country whose board of trustees includes student, faculty and staff representatives as full voting members.
• Sustainability isn't just about climate change, and answers aren't all in technology, engineering conference concludes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability was the theme of the 25th annual conference of the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association, held March 28-29 in Statler Hall.
• 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.
• First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/24/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell researchers have looked at soil's organic carbon at a scale of 50 nanometers (1 nanometer equals the width of three silicon atoms).
• Manhattan extension training is a walk in the park -- with science and hands-on classes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/28/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Launched Jan. 30 and running through June 4, the CPC-funded Urban Horticulture and Ecology Training program brings expert instructors from various Cornell Cooperative Extension offices in the New York City.
• 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• Forest birds evolved in bursts, DNA shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Dan Rabosky, a graduate student at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and Professor Irby Lovette used DNA analyses to look at 5 million years of evolution in 25 species of colorful North American songbirds known as wood warblers.
• 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.
• From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species, research shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By mapping developing brain cells in newly hatched midshipman fish larvae, Andrew H. Bass, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back through evolutionary time.
• Fullers' gift will create learning center in life sciences building | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/18/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  H. Laurance Fuller '60, ChemE '61 and his wife, Nancy '62 have made a multimillion-dollar lead gift to the university to name the H. Laurance and Nancy L. Fuller Learning Center in the new Life Sciences Technology Building.
• 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."
• 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.
• Gates Foundation awards Cornell $26.8 million to lead global fight against deadly wheat plague | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell has been awarded a $26.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a broad-based global partnership to combat stem rust, a deadly wheat disease that poses a serious threat to global food security.
• Stem rust, a biblical wheat plague, now threatens consumers on a global scale | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Black stem rust fungus has emerged in a virulent new form for which 90 percent of the world's wheat varieties have no resistance. Spores of this new strain, known as Ug99, are now riding winds and blasting wheat fields from Uganda to Yemen.
• 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.
• Genetic discovery can boost the provitamin A content of Africa's maize | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new discovery, spearheaded by Cornell and University of Illinois plant geneticists and published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Science, could lead to tripling the provitamin A levels in Africa's maize.
• 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.
• Geneva experiment station helps N.Y. fight plum pox virus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Last year 16 trees in New York state tested positive for PPV. As a result, 26 acres of orchard were destroyed. Yet there is hope that, through stringent surveying and identification efforts, PPV can be eradicated from New York.
• Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geosciences, quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found that there was far more than expected, said Johannes Lehmann, the paper's lead author and professor of biogeochemistry.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Higher education should be seen as a problem solver, not an interest group, Skorton tells national reporters | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24-2008 Chronicle feature
  
  If Cornell President David Skorton had one recommendation to give the next U.S. president about science research and science education, it would be to boost funding for non-defense research, he said at a roundtable discussion in New York City.
• Higher yield, cheaper rice-growing method slowly taking root in Africa, says Norman Uphoff | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Norman Uphoff, Cornell professor emeritus, described the many grass-roots System of Rice Intensification (SRI) experimentation efforts in Africa at a Sept. 18 seminar, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for African Development.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lab of O helps protect endangered right whales with warning buoys in shipping lanes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/22/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Endangered North Atlantic right whales are safer along some busy shipping lanes this spring. A new system of smart buoys recognizes whales' distinctive calls and routes the information to a public Web site and a marine warning system
• 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.
• Humanity must work as a team to reduce global warming, says Cornell professor in climate change workshop | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  The only way to reduce global warming, said Cornell philosophy professor Richard Miller at a teachers' workshop at Cornell March 14, is to reduce emissions from industry and vehicles.
• ISS fellowships free some of Cornell's top social scientists to pursue their research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell is hosting 11 faculty fellows as part of its new in-residence program. The faculty members will will be free to pursue their research, free from teaching and most departmental duties.
• 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.
• 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.
• Inaugural research forum focuses on next-generation accelerator project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg Hoffstaetter in a lecture to faculty and staff.
• 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.
• 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.
• In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures for better fuel cells and microchips | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/26/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes.
• 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.
• Institute explores how to help students surf the growing waves of good and not-so-good information | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Co-sponsored by the University Library and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the weeklong institute, June 16-20, is intended to explore information avenues available at the campus libraries and to integrate these into Cornell.
• 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.
• Intercampus partnership takes medicine into the wild | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/10/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  An eight-day Cornell wilderness first responder course was taught by Alice Henshaw, paramedic and COE lead instructor, and Chris Tedeschi, an instructor and emergency medicine physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
• 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.
• Jeff Tester, Cornell's first Croll professor, will speak on campus March 28-29 on sustainable energy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Jefferson W. Tester '66, M.S. '67, will hold the first Croll Professorship of Sustainable Energy Systems in the College of Engineering. The Croll professor is expected to play a leadership role in the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF).
• '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.
• 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.
• Kent Loeffler's photographs of tiny fungi tower in exhibit 'Miniature Landscapes' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Photographer Kent Loeffler of Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology tramped through woods and crawled on many a forest floor to find and capture the mushrooms and slime molds on display in the Mann gallery through Feb. 27
• DiSalvo named fellow of Materials Research Society | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  Frank J. DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and director of Cornell's Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), a new title created this year by the society.
• LEED is the new building standard, say developers at Cornell conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/12/2008 Chronicle feature
  At the "Defining Sustainable Development" conference on land use, climate change and water resources, a private developer said that about a year and a half ago, the market began demanding more green buildings.
• 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.
• Lab of O's Great Backyard Bird Count slated for Feb. 15-18 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Bird-watchers across North America are poised to take a real-time snapshot of where the birds are during the 11th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), Feb. 15-18.
• Lab of O's Roger Slothower dies unexpectedly at age 53 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Slothower specialized in creating sophisticated maps tied to various citizen-science projects and other public databases. It is estimated that he created approximately 8 million maps.
• '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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Los Alamos scientists to visit Cornell annually in new tie with Bethe House | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell and LANL officials signed a memorandum of understanding creating "an ongoing and productive relationship between Los Alamos scientific staff and Cornell University faculty and student body.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maple expert campaigns to boost state's lagging syrup production | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  If New York producers tapped the same ratio of maples in its forests as does Vermont (2 percent), annual New York syrup production revenues could rise to close to $50 million, up from an estimated $12.9 million, according to Cornell's Michael Farrell.
• Maple weekends could be two months earlier by 2080, say Cornell researchers undertaking new study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  This year, Maple Weekend is March 29-30 since weather patterns are providing good sap flow in the maple trees of northern New York. But by 2080, sugarhouses in northern New York may be humming as early as Jan. 29-30.
• Mary-Lynn Cummings assumes newly created post of director of space planning at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Mary-Lynn Cummings '87, assistant dean for facilities and operational services in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been named to the newly created post of director of space planning for Cornell as of Feb. 4.
• 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.
• McEuen and Ralph put new spin on quantum computing in carbon nanotubes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell physicists have found that the spin of an electron in a carbon nanotube is coupled with the electron's orbit. The finding means researchers will have to change the way they read out or change spin, but offers a new way to manipulate the spin.
• Meeting to consider tree planting as antidote to urban ills is uprooted by 'inconvenient conclusion' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/11/2008 Chronicle Feature
  Tom Whitlow, a researcher in Cornell's Urban Horticulture Institute, has found that it might be disingenuous "to suggest that planting more trees might help a community's health" in a directly measurable way.
• 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.
• Milk goes green: Cows fed biotech product reduce agriculture's environmental impact | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed. But cows that receive a biotech product called rbST give more milk, easing natural resource pressure and reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell study.
• Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Genetic analysis reveals an evolutionary trend for milkweed plants away from resisting predators to putting more effort into repairing themselves faster than caterpillars -- particularly the monarch butterfly caterpillar -- can eat them.
• Faculty panel united by 'the good fight' at Big Apple discussion | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/26/2008 Chronicle feature
  Seven of Cornell's brightest scholars tackled topics ranging from global politics and crises in health, food and economics, to Cornell's international and intellectual missions at the 'Big Red in the Big Apple' event.
• Morning sickness is pregnancy 'wellness insurance,' says Cornell professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature
  After testing the two dominant theories for why two-thirds of women around the world experience nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, only one holds water, says Paul Sherman, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior and a Weiss Presidential Fellow.
• 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.
• National Park(ing) Day made C-town a little greener | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  On Sept. 19, students from Cornell's chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects transformed a metered parking space on College Avenue into a green oasis for the day. Trees, flowers, lawn and benches helped create a mini park.
• 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.
• 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.
• New Cornell institute focuses on invasive species | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell, with support from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, has established the Invasive Species Research Institute (ISRI) at CALS. Holly Menninger, recently joined Cornell as coordinator of the new institute.
• New 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.
• New Human Ecology dean takes hands-on approach | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/07/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  "I am honored, humbled and excited to be entrusted with the responsibility of leading the college," Alan Mathios said. "I hope to approach the role with energy, patience and definitely a sense of humor."
• New Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology will raise stature of cell biology on Cornell campus | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  The new institute will provide a bridge for different departments related to basic cell biology and will be housed in the new Life Sciences Technology Building. The building rising on Alumni Field is scheduled for completion in 2008.
• A major hire to advance and extend life sciences at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  Finding the right person to lead an institute that will be the focus of the New Life Sciences Initiative (NLSI) was no easy task. The search led to cell biologist Scott Emr.
• Scott Emr to lead biology institute at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  Emr (pronounced Emmer), currently a University of California-San Diego School of Medicine professor of cellular and molecular medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will begin his Cornell appointment in February 2007.
• Weill Institute announces four new hires | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/15/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology has hired four outstanding young researchers: Chris Fromme, Yuxin Mao, Marcus Smolka and Fenghua Hu.
• New TV show features healthy eating, local foods and N.Y. agriculture | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A new television program, "From Farm to Table," airing in the Albany area but available online, is a collaboration between Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), WMHT Public Television in Troy, N.Y., and local farmers.
• New art in Corson-Mudd combines realism, abstraction -- and biology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/04/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Visitors to Corson-Mudd Hall, greeted by swirls of textured color by Edward Heiple of Moravia and breathtaking satellite-view images of Earth by Jay Hart of Trumansburg, might momentarily forget they've entered a biology building.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 free online videos help mentor new farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  To provide new farmers a resource lifeline, the New York Beginning Farmer Project has just released a series of 12 online videos, titled "Voices of Experience." Through interviews with 12 enterprising farmers, the videos are intended to help new farmers.
• New 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.
• 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.
• 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".
• New study shows that transgenic plants don't hurt beneficial bugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/03/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Genetically modified (GM) plants that use Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests won't harm the pests' natural enemies, according to new research by Cornell entomologists.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nobelist Carl Wieman: Use science to teach science | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Science instructors need to use data on how memory works and the same process that scientists use to glean new information: conceptual problem solving, said physicist and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman in a public lecture, Sept. 22.
• Old Order farmers profit from new order idea | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Six years ago Howard Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Conference Mennonite community, designed his first high tunnel. He showed the tunnel to Judson Reid, an extension associate with the Cornell Vegetable Program, who saw the advantages immediately.
• 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.
• On Smuttynose, layers of history reveal early settlement and fate of fisheries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  This summer, Smuttynose Island became the site of an archaeological dig during a one-week course through Shoals Marine Lab, a marine biology teaching and research facility run by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire.
• On issues of energy, environment and climate, Cornell experts say they have a leading role to play | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  At a daylong conference in the Statler Hotel on May 7, Cornell researchers and community leaders discussed establishing applied research and extension priorities for the coming year.
• Terence Bates receives New York Wine and Grape Foundation Research Award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Terence Bates, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Horticultural Sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, recently received the award for "major contributions in research and education."
• Cornell faculty to confer on troubled waters in Greece | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
• Got a bug on a shrub? New Web site can help Northeasterners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Web site, at http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/aes_ornamental.asp, provides easy-to-read fact sheets with such information as range maps, photos of pests, the damage they cause and life-cycle charts.
• Provost Biddy Martin named chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, provost of Cornell University since 2000, today was recommended as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university's Board of Regents is expected to act on the appointment in June.
• Online scientific repository hits milestone | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/08/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million research articles published online now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public
• Onondaga Nation students get hands-on dairy tour | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  About 25 children from the Onondaga Nation School got a taste of how milk goes from cow to carton in a tour of Cornell's Dairy Plant. Carl Batt, Cornell professor of food science, who organized the event has been visiting the Onondaga Nation for 7 years.
• 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.
• Paul Curtis honored with extension's Award of Excellence | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Paul Curtis, associate professor of natural resources, is the recipient of the 2007 Award of Excellence from the Northeast Extension Directors for leadership and innovation for his contributions to the Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management.
• 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.
• Pilot program builds corps of 'green retirees' to serve as environmental stewards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Take a burgeoning cohort of retirees with time who want to be useful and a host of pressing environmental problems. Add a dash of training and support. The result: a volunteer corps of retirees with the skills needed to tackle environmental threats.
• Pimentel receives honorary doctorate from University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture at Cornell, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• Plant pathologist William Fry elected Cornell faculty dean | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  On a sabbatical leave in South Africa, William Fry learned this week that Cornell's faculty has elected him as its new dean. Fry, a professor of plant pathology, is conducting research on a plant pathogen that causes potato late blight.
• Population geneticist Scott Williamson dies at 32 | Cornell Chronicle feature | Scott Williamson obituary
  
  Scott Williamson, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell, died March 14 from a brain cancer called glioblastoma.
• Powerhouse team battles to save right whales | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has joined the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Liberty Harbor, and other supporters up and down the eastern seaboard to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales off the Brunswick coastline.
• President Skorton announces formation of Provost Search Committee and names interim provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy Martha Haynes will chair the Provost Search Committe, and Deputy Provost David Harris will serve as interim provost during the transition starting Sept. 1.
• Professor's biodegrable-composite company draws skateboard firm to Ithaca | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/19/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Comet Skateboards now makes biodegradable boards, thanks to technology developed by Cornell's Anil Netravali, professor of fiber science and apparel design and co-founder of a company called e2e Materials LLC.
• Biodegradable composites company wins Johnson School contest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/09/2007 Chronicle feature
  Based on Cornell technology developed by Cornell fiber science and apparel design professor Anil Netravali, e2e Materials produces biodegradable composites from renewable fibers and soy protein.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provost promotes a 'competitive' Cornell that defines its research and education values on its own terms | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell is striving to remain competitive among its peer institutions, with beefed up financial-aid packages, but government pressure to support more of this aid from the university's endowment can take a toll on investments into research and teaching.
• Quagga mussels threaten western U.S. water and electric plants, Cornell expert tells legislators | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Chuck O'Neill, a senior extension associate with Cornell and New York Sea Grant, discussed the economic and infrastructure impacts of both zebra (Dreissena polymopha) and quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) at the U.S. House of Representatives, June 24.
• 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).
• Ray Wu, Cornell's acclaimed pioneer of genetic engineering and developer of high-yielding, hardy rice, dies at 79 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2008 Wu Obituary
  
  Ray J. Wu, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, who was widely recognized as one of the fathers of plant genetic engineering, died at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca Feb. 10. He was 79.
• 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.
• 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.
• Researchers describe for first time how some bacteria kill males: They first invade the mother | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Many groups of bacteria are known as "male killers" -- they target and kill just the males of a host species. Patrick Ferree, Cornell postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and genetics, has helped describe how this happens.
• 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
• Researchers locate geographic origins from DNA | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A study published online this week in Nature by a team that included Cornell researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born.
• Researchers 'stamp' nanodevices with rubber molds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  By manipulating the way droplets of fluid dry, researchers have created a way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive tools. The process is guided by molds that "stamp" the desired structures.
• 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.
• 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.
• Richard Durst to head Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  Richard A. Durst, professor emeritus of chemistry in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NYSAES in Geneva, N.Y., and adjunct Cornell professor in the BEE department, was elected president of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.
• Schember named executive director of sustainability center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/11/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Helene Schember, former associate director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, became the first executive director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) Dec. 3.
• Sustainability center names three new associate directors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) has named three new associate directors who will use their expertise in three key areas -energy, environment and economic development - to connect Cornell's research and scholarship to sustainability.
• Schroeder earns DuPont Young Professor grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Frank Schroeder, assistant professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell, is a recipient of the 2008 DuPont Young Professor grant for his research on the response of cellular systems to bioactive small molecules.
• 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.
• Skorton announces Cornell's sustainability center is university's commitment to Bill Clinton initiative | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF), created last year, has been chosen as Cornell's sustainability commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), founded by former President Bill Clinton.
• Skorton extols Cornell's banner year in State of the University speech | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  While Cornell continues to be a world-renowned "powerhouse in science and in technology and in engineering," the university "also excels and is a model of the centrality of the humanities and the arts in a research university," he said.
• Acre-sized art installation uses grass as canvas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  What strikes instructor Marcia Eames-Sheavly about her class's "Turfwork!" creation, nestled into a field next to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, is "the beautiful simplicity of the design.
• Skorton shares stage with Bill Clinton to offer four-step plan for economic activism | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Speaking at Tulane University on March 15, Cornell President David Skorton provided an outline for how universities can make a difference through committed action, and he presented a four-step program for economic activism.
• Skorton to join Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New Orleans, focused on addressing world problems | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell President David Skorton will take part in the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), hosted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, March 14-16 at Tulane University in New Orleans.
• 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.
• Soil scientists Cherney, Cox and Hobbs receive awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell soil scientists Jerome H. Cherney, William J. Cox and Peter R. Hobbs received awards at the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America annual meeting in early October, for their "outstanding contributions" to crop science.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Students can major in art and science of vines and wines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Students in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) can start majoring in viticulture and enology in the fall.
• Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/14/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Some day, fuel cells may power your car and exhaust only water and perhaps carbon dioxide. But not today or even tomorrow.
• Hinestroza receives federal grants to create fabrics to render toxic chemicals harmless | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts.
• Web site links campuses, collaborators | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/23/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For researchers looking to forge connections between Cornell's Ithaca and New York City's campuses, a new service is available at the recently designed intercampus initiatives Web site at http://intercampusaffairs.cornell.edu/.
• Merrill Scholars honor influential high school, CU teachers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program will honor 36 seniors this week and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
• Students see firsthand how Asia is developing its first genetically engineered food crop | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers in plant breeding, entomology and molecular biology are working closely with Sathguru Management Consultants of India to develop new genetically enhanced eggplant that is more resistant to attack from the fruit and shoot borer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tata trust strengthens CU's ties to India, and to eminent alumnus, with $50 million endowment | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Ratan Tata '62, one of Cornell's most eminent alumni, is chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group. Tata was named one of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world by Barron's magazine last year.
• 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.
• 2008 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture: The New "New International Economic Order" | news release | Thu 04/17/2008 04:30pm
  
  Timothy E.Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund, Former U.S. Congressman, Senator, and Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
• Effective climate change strategies call for new rules in global politics and economics | news release | 04/21/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  To combat global warming, we'll need to change the rules that underlay the global economy, transform global energy and allot carbon emissions much more fairly across the globe, said Timothy Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation and Better World Fund.
• 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.
• 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.
• The search for 'green' gold in the Amazon rain forest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  In a hunt for plants in the Amazon rain forest that have potential to be used for sustainable products, Cornell fiber science professors Anil Netravali and Juan Hinestroza are forging new collaborations with researchers in Brazil.
• The time is ripe for an apple that tastes like berries and one that doesn't brown | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/05/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  At the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, N.Y. , these apples already exist and new possibilities are literally endless.
• Three Cornell scientists receive Hartwell awards for their research to benefit children | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/03/2008 Chronicle feature
  Two scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) and one from Cornell's Ithaca campus have been honored with 2007 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards from the Hartwell Foundation.
• 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.
• 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.
• Todd McGrain memorializes 'lost birds' with sculptures | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/24/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Todd McGrain, Cornell professor of art, is immortalizing five North American bird species driven to extinction: the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the great auk, the Labrador duck and the heath hen.
• $25 million CU-Saudi link will boost nanoscience research, with focus on sustainability | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/30/2008 Chronicle Feature
  A new partnership between Cornell and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia promises to strengthen Cornell's research efforts in energy and sustainability.
• Max Zhang uses cities as air-quality laboratories, including Olympic city Beijing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/01/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  As the world watches China prepare for the Olympic Games, Cornell researcher Max Zhang has his eye on the particles in Beijing's air that millions breathe every day, and that many more will be breathing when they descend on the city this summer.
• A tree grows in White Plains: Blight-resistant chestnut honors Ezra Cornell and launches CCE White Plains project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  A 12-foot blight-resistant American chestnut tree has been planted in honor of Ezra Cornell in White Plains, N.Y., about 30 miles from his birthplace, to launch a new project to help restore the American chestnut tree to New York state.t
• Mother's Day special: With straw and plastic, a one-acre flower is 'painted' for sky viewers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  On May 11, a group of Cornell students will unveil a temporary artwork titled "Turfwork!," intended to be viewed from the air.
• To survive, tiger moths are bright for birds, click for bats | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The virgin tiger moth, Grammia virgo, has evolved warning signals to remind predators of its noxious taste. It is conspicuously colored to deter birds during the day and sound producing to deter bats at night.
• Tree inventory for climate plan uncovers Cornell's biggest and oldest trees | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/09/2009 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's first comprehensive tree inventory, conducted this summer, finds that the campus's 7,000-plus trees store millions of pounds of carbon and provide more than half a million dollars in benefits to the university.
• Two 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 'Unprecedented' warming drives dramatic ecosystem shifts in North Atlantic, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell study reports that as a result of global warming which has caused Arctic freshwater ice to melt and flow southward, the ranges of some coldwater, northern marine species have been moving down the North American coast- a counterintuitive finding.
• 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.
• Walcott, bird researcher and 'ship mover,' retiring from Cornell when his deanship ends | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  When Dean of the University Faculty Charles Walcott's five-year term ends June 30, he plans to retire from the university.
• 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.
• Washington gives Cornell $2 million to enlist kids to find missing ladybugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The Lost Ladybug Project is intended to help scientists better understand why some species of ladybugs have become extremely rare while other species have greatly increased both their numbers and range.
• Web site hosts gardeners' ratings on veggie varieties | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/21/08 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell's Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners Web site not only allows gardeners to read about thousands of vegetable varieties but also to rate and review varieties.
• 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.
• Weill Hall business incubator gets new momentum with $7.5 million McGovern gift | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Kevin M. McGovern '70, his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Jarrett '03 and Ashley '08, the former IDEA Center is now the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences.
• Whales heard for first time in waters around New York City | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/16/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program and the New York State DEC.
• What goes down the drain, from ibuprofen to soaps, gets turned out to pasture via toxic sludge, researchers warn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/29/2008 Chronicle feature
  Significant amounts of toxic chemicals from households persist in the environment because they end up in sewage sludge. Pathogens are removed in wastewater treatment plants, but some chemical contaminants that originate in the home are not.
• What to do with rotten, smelly garbage when the nearest dumpster is 100 million miles away | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/17/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  Jean Hunter, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has been working with research partner Orbital Technologies Corp. (ORBITEC) of Madison, Wis., to develop a cutting-edge trash dryer for NASA.
• Which grass is greener? Project identifies Northeast grasses that will fuel bioenergy era | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/02/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' (CALS) Bioenergy Feedstock Project is the only project of its kind devoted to exploring the many species of field grass that grow in the Northeast and their potential as sources for biofuels.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cornell researcher searches DNA for secrets to bacteria's large size | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2008 Chronicle Feature
  
  The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size may be found in its ability to copy its genome tens of thousands of times.
• Warren Allmon named Cornell's first Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2008 Chronicle Feature
  The Cornell Board of Trustees has named paleobiologist Warren Allmon the first Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology in Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
• Working to keep water clean and plentiful in Greece, CU faculty reach out to international partners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  A promising international partnership for solving water shortages halfway around the world was strengthened this summer by two Cornell faculty members who traveled to Greece to help raise awareness of the issue.
• 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 poised to become global leader in sustainable development as environmental programs gain wide support on campus | Cornell news release | 06/29/2005 news release
  
  Cornellians have much to celebrate in terms of sustainability efforts on campus,
• Cornell ecologist's study finds that producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy | news release | 07/05/2005 news release
  
  Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.
• North Atlantic right whales headed toward extinction unless quick action is taken | Cornell news release | 07/25/2005 news release
  
  One of the world's most endangered whales, the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), is on a path toward extinction due to collisions with ships and entanglements in fishing gear, according to Cornell University whale expert Christopher Clark.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology counters famous birder's interpretation of fleeting woodpecker video | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/21/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  David Sibley, a renowned birder who, last summer, visited Cornell's Lab of Ornithology to view the blurry April 2004 video of an ivory-billed woodpecker, has now challenged the Lab's analysis of the footage.
• Cornell signs pact with Paris institution on environmental research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/08/2006 Chronicle feature
  Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with École Normale Supérieure in Paris to facilitate academic exchange and to support collaborative research activities related to environmental issues.
• Ithaca-Weill Research Collaboration - Graduate Student Transit Fund | news release
• Supercomputing essential for 'cyberscholarship' future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/08 Scientific Computing web page
• Computational biologists use evolution-tracking method to discover 300 new human genes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/15/07 Cornell Chronicle feature
• Cornell Theory Center is now Cornell Center for Advanced Computing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/07/07 Cornell Chronicle feature
• $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.
• Clean, white, open spaces and lots of light: Weill Hall opens for business | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature
  
  The 263,000-square-foot building, designed by architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move into offices and laboratories this month.
• Developing biofuels in a sustainable way is essential for U.S. economy, note researchers at Cornell symposium | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 12/21/07 Chronicle feature
  Sponsored and hosted by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), the symposium sought to address "cost-effective environmentally responsible solutions for meeting energy demands."
• Cornell team shows how Tompkins County can cut its 'carbon footprint' by two-thirds | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 12/04/07 Chronicle feature
  Cornell professors have joined with a team of Northeast regional experts to tackle global warming on a local level, creating blueprints for communities like Tompkins County to identify and reduce their "carbon footprint."
• Apple, biofuel and invasive species programs are some newly funded research and extension projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/30/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Research projects on biofuels, apples and teaching youths to cook to promote healthy eating are just a few of the 94 new research and extension programs that will be funded this year.
• New technologies and need for renewable fuel to spark an agricultural revolution, says USDA undersecretary and extension projects | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Gale Buchanan, U.S. undersecretary for research, education and economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), spoke at Cornell in the Boyce Thompson Auditorium, Nov. 19.
• $400,000 NSF grant will aid sharing of raw research data | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  Mann Library has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to make sharing digital data among researchers easier. Cornell librarians will develop a set of services and electronic tools.
• Elusive agent that triggers immune response in plants is finally uncovered by BTI researchers at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/04/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the Cornell campus have identified methyl salicylate, an aspirin-like compound that alerts a plant's immune system to shift into high gear.
• Lake Source Cooling monitoring of Cayuga Lake could become part of wider system | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/05/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell's monitoring of Cayuga Lake water quality, required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), could become part of a much more extensive lake monitoring system.
• DiSalvo to serve as interim head of new Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/07 Chronicle feature
  Issues of sustainability facing the world as well as the university are behind the new Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. Leading the effort will be interim director Frank DiSalvo.
• Profits, not poaching, is message Cornell food scientists are aiming at Zambian farmers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  In an effort to improve lives and at the same time save African wildlife, Cornell researchers are helping farmers in Zambia, Southern Africa, develop such products as peanut butter and tofu under the It's Wild! brand name.
• Two major gifts will advance energy and sustainability research at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/19/07 Chronicle Feature
  Two of the major gifts to Cornell announced this week will help support sustainability and energy research on campus through the new Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future.
• Cornell researchers identify natural herbicide that controls weeds around some common lawn grasses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Certain varieties of common fescue lawn grass come equipped with their own natural broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits the growth of weeds and other plants around them.
• How old trees and ancient wood are helping rewrite history explained by tree-ring lab directormon lawn grasses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood.
• Michal Lipson elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/01/2007 Chronicle feature
  Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) by its board of directors at their September meeting.
• Cornell microbiologist David Russell elected AAAS fellow | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/01/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Cornell molecular microbiologist David G. Russell was among 471 other researchers nationwide elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, in honor of his distinguished contributions to his profession.
• Plants, from pennycress to willow, have potential to clean up polluted soils, researchers are finding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/30/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  In many places, the soil has high concentrations of organic toxins and heavy metals from smelting, manufacturing and other industrial processes as well as the burning of fossil fuels.
• Researchers discover hormone that may lead to safe treatment for high blood pressure | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/31/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  Researchers at Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) have used a new technique and identified a hormone from human urine -- a xanthurenic-acid derivative -- that seems able to control sodium levels and treat hypertension.
• Cornell helps develop pest-resistant eggplant, the first genetically modified food crop in South Asia | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers and Sathguru Management Consultants have successfully led an international consortium through the first phase of developing a pest-resistant eggplant.
• With car-deer collisions on the rise, how to get rid of road kill? Cornell spearheads a $25 solution -- composting | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/13/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell scientists have teamed up with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to test a promising and effective new method of disposal: composting.
• CU to offer its first degree program in Africa, with faculty traveling to Ethiopia to teach water management course | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/12/07 Chronicle feature
  
  In its self-described role as the land-grant university to the world, Cornell has taken a major step in exporting its expertise to African countries: It is about to offer its first degree program in Africa.
• CU food scientists keep watch over New York dairy foods | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/07 Chronicle feature
  
  The Food Science Dairy Extension Program, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, works with every segment of the dairy industry.
• Studying grass for energy needs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/06/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Watching grass grow becomes critical in hunt for new biofuels
• Aluminum toxicity | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/30/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers clone aluminum-tolerance gene in sorghum, promising boost to crop yields in developing world
• Today's white rice is mutation spread by early farmers, researchers say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/16/07 Chronicle feature
  
  Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice is derived from a mutation (a deletion of DNA) in a single gene originating in the Japonica subspecies of rice.
• Uncertain rainy days make birds turn to family, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Rather than striking out to raise their family, members of some bird species cooperate to help raise their siblings, nephews, nieces, cousins -- or even unrelated young.
• Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/02/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, wh
• Why honeybees are promiscuous | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/19/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  An answer to the mystery of wanton queen honeybees: Promiscuity produces more productive colonies
• Plant pathogen outwits tomato defenses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/18/07 Chronicle Feature
  
  An arms race is under way in the plant world.
• Assessing levies for accidental by-catch, say researchers, could generate money to protect threatened species | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/18/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened.
• Emission choices lead to starkly different futures for Northeast agriculture, says CU expert at briefing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/11/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Farmers will be the first to feel the heat from global warming as they grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and other sobering challenges that could strain family farms to the limit
• Cornell hosts New York summit on renewable energy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/29/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Amid growing concerns about climate change and U.S. dependence on foreign energy, leaders from industry, government and science gathered at Cornell June 24-26 for the 2007 New York Renewable Energy Summit, the third annual conference focused on renewable
• New rice course in Philippines attracts host of CU students and is co-taught by Professor Susan McCouch | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  
• Female starlings trade sex for help or to get a better mate, CU researcher finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  While women may cheat on men for personal reasons, superb starling females appear to stray from their mates for the sake of their chicks, according to recent Cornell research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
• Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship, Cornell neurobiologists discover | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2007 chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers have discovered that in the battle of the sexes, African electric fish couples not only use specific electrical signals to court but also engage in a sort of dueling "electric duet."
• On-farm research shows farmers can use less nitrogen to save money and reduce environmental impact | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Ongoing field trials since 2002 by a team that includes 16 farmers, Cornell researchers and Cornell Cooperative Extension field crops educators in 10 counties are showing the value of on-farm research.
• Computer modeling could help chlorine-hungry bacteria break down toxic waste | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/14/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers hope to learn how certain bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then to make them more effective in cleaning up toxic wastes.
• $2.5 million federal awards will enable Cornell scientist David Soderlund to assess health risks of two classes of insecticides | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2007 Chronicle Feature
  
  The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Cornell insecticide toxicologist David Soderlund two grants, providing more than $2.5 million over five years, to study how insecticides affect human health.
• Cornell researchers confirm that deadly fish virus has spread to 19 species, threatening sport-fishing industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/17/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), which causes anemia and hemorrhaging in fish, has now been identified in 19 species and poses a potential threat to New York's $1.2 billion sport-fishing industry.
• Decimation of bee colonies has various causes, with parasites, pathogens and pesticides possible suspects, Cornell expert says | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Scientists are working hard to understand the sources of a staggering decline in honeybees in as many as 27 U.S. states and countries in Europe and Asia this winter, said Cornell associate professor of entomology Nicholas Calderone.
• Simpler way to counter global warming explained: Lock up carbon in soil and use bioenergy exhaust gases for energy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/11/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell biogeochemist describes an economical and efficient way to help offset global warming: Pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by charring, or partially burning, trees, grasses or crop residues without the use of oxygen.
• Cornell's supercomputers will crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/01/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  It calls for a supercomputer to pull together all the weather data from hundreds of sources every day, year round, then sorting out just the part needed by a farmer 35 miles east of Canton, N.Y.
• Newly discovered plant enzymes could lead to more efficient -- and less costly -- ethanol production from cellulose | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/24/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  In a breakthrough that could make the production of cellulosic ethanol less expensive, Cornell researchers have discovered a class of plant enzymes that potentially could allow plant materials to be broken down more efficiently than currently possible.
• How the new world of climate change and disruption of nature is challenging the American spirit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  David Wolfe, professor of plant ecology in the Department of Horticulture, is a leading authority on the effects of climate change and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on plants, soils and ecosystems.
• New York's state insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle, rediscovered in eastern U.S. after 14 elusive years | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/17/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell researchers believe that the rediscovery of New York state's official insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle (Coccinella novemnotata or C9), promises a brighter future for this rare species.
• New site shows forests aren't just timber: think mushrooms, ginseng and sugar | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/03/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  From understory to canopy, the millions of acres of forests that cover much of New York have untapped potential to provide popular products for consumers and generate additional income for landowners.
• A rarity among arachnids, predatory whip spiders have a sociable family life, CU researcher finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/12/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Whip spiders, considered by many to be creepy-crawly, are giving new meaning to the term touchy-feely. This is surprising behavior for these arachnids, long-thought to be purely aggressive and anti-social, according to a Cornell researcher.
• Warming climate, cod collapse, have combined to cause rapid North Atlantic ecosystem changes, says Cornell oceanographer | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/22/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina, are experiencing large, rapid changes, reports a Cornell oceanographer in the Feb. 23 issue of Science.
• When fish become extinct, the cycling of critical nutrients in ecosystems changes, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2007 Cornell Chronicle feature
  
  Ecosystems are such intricate webs of connections that few studies have been able to explore exactly what happens when a species dies out.
• While global warming is fatal to many reefs, some corals are able to fight the heat, Cornell researcher reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival, according to Drew Harvell, Cornell professor
• Avian caller ID: Sound analysis shows differences in alarm calls of individual crows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  By recording and analyzing the alarm caws of American crows, Jessica Yorzinski '05 found seven subtle acoustic differences in features that differed among individuals -- differences that the crows could potentially use to recognize one another's calls.
• Come spring, expect fewer blooms, due to mild early winter, say Cornell horticulturists | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/29/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  With record warmth throughout the Northeast in December and early January, gardeners and commercial growers are asking:
• CU and local transportation officials adopt biodiesel fuel | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/19/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell vehicles and city and county fleets will get a little cleaner this summer, thanks to an agreement with roots in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
• Researcher to use $10 million grant to revamp Cornell labs to advance cellulose-to-biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/18/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  The grant will be used to renovate laboratories in Riley Robb Hall and to purchase fermenters, incubators and state-of-the-art analytical equipment.
• Sudden, deep cold snap could be lethal to some Finger Lakes grape varieties, Cornell experts say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/16/2007 Chronicle feature
  
  Finger Lakes sybarites love to romance their regional vintages, but the reality is that grape growing is crop farming, and crop farming is largely weather dependent.
• Baby, it's warm outside: Boston aims to break its December average-temperature record | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  With above-average warmth throughout the Northeast, several cities in the region face top-10 warm Decembers, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC).
• Calls of the wild: More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to public online | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/14/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  For the first time, more than 65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips of birds and other animals are accessible for no charge at the Macaulay Library's Web site.
• Queen bees are not just being promiscuous, they are boosting the health of the hive, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/08/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs.
• Geneva's Susan Brown named first Cohn Professor | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Susan K. Brown, Cornell professor of horticultural sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, N.Y., has been named the first Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticultural Sciences.
• 100-million-year-old discovery pushes bees' evolutionary history back 35 million years | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/06/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber -- perhaps the oldest bee ever found --
• Cornell ecologist shares in federal grant to study how a species might affect its own evolution | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/25/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  A Cornell researcher will take part a multi-institutional $5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how changes to an ecosystem can influence evolution in a species.
• Cornell-led team receives $2.5 million to study house finch eye disease that could provide clues to avian flu and AIDS | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/09/2006
  
  Cornell researchers leading a multi-institutional team studying an eye disease infecting house finches have received a five-year $2.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award to continue their work.
• DNA molecule, not the genetic code, is used to build nanomaterials and biomedical devices | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/25/06 Chronicle feature
  Using synthetic DNA formed into crosses, Y's and T's, Cornell researchers have created biocompatible, biodegradable, inexpensive hydrogels that can be easily formed into any desired shape for biomedical applications.
• Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Skorton to share stage at Weill Cornell Medical College, Sept. 26 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/19/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will speak to the Cornell community at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, Tuesday, Sept. 26. The talk, in the college's Uris Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., also will be shown live on Cornell's Ithaca campus.
• Agricultural engineers at Cornell help improve the water quality of Lake Ontario | NYSAES news release | 09/01/2006 news release
  
  Cornell researchers are collaborating with growers and environmental agencies in a project to protect the Lake Ontario watershed from pesticide run-off.
• The decline of just one fish species can disrupt an entire ecosystem, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Common scientific wisdom posits that a diverse ecosystem can still thrive if a species within it declines. But a new study found that the decline of just one important species in a river seriously changed the ecosystem and other species did not compensate
• Shoals mysteries: castrated snails and immigrant crabs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  For years now, faculty researchers and undergraduates in the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship program at the lab on Appledore Island have worked to build an understanding of the island's interconnecting biology.
• Cornell pest-alert network helps link attacks to changing climates | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/28/2006 Chronicle feature
  A Cornell University "trap network," begun in 1994 to alert farmers when damaging pests are threatening 60,000 acres of sweet corn across New York state, could now help researchers track how these pests respond to changing climates.
• Cornell researchers challenge Cornell-led proposal to stock U.S. plains with lions and elephants | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/20/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Such animals would be unlikely to thrive and could seriously threaten indigenous species and ecosystems, they say.
• Young 'Nerdy Birders' raise funds for Ivory-bill Project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Four seventh-graders from Ringgold, Ga., have raised $2,761 in pledges for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
• Inadequate data are available to assess risk of sludge that is applied to land, CU study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/05/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Relying on existing lists of chemicals, such as priority pollutants, will not identify many chemicals of current concern," concluded Ellen Z. Harrison, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute at Cornell and the lead researcher of the study.
• Evolution can occur quickly and change how populations interact | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/03/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Biologists generally accept that evolutionary change can take from decades to millennia, while ecological change can occur over mere days or seasons. However, a new Cornell study shows that evolution and ecology can operate on the same time scale.
• Nurseries to give big-city test to Cornell-cloned trees and tree-growing technique | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/23/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  New York City life is tough on trees. Compacted soil with high pH, low-hanging utility wires, an environment often hot and dry, and the city's harsh winters challenge a tree's survival and colorful foliage.
• Cornell acquires two more 'ecologically fragile' off-campus natural areas | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/21/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell Plantations has added two more natural areas to its just over 4,000 acres of biologically diverse and ecologically fragile natural areas.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology produces a 'Who's Hooo' of North American owl sounds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/16/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just released a two-CD guide, "Voices of North American Owls." Call it a veritable "Who's Hooo" of North American owl sounds.
• Evolution in action? African fish could be providing rare example of forming two separate species, Cornell scientists speculate | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/01/2006 Chronicle feature
  While various groups of local electric fish have different DNA, different communication patterns and won't mate with each other, Cornell neurobiologists have now found a case where two types of electric signals come from fish that have the same DNA.
• Essential organism -- from peat bogs -- involved in global climate change is finally isolated for study | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/30/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Efforts to take methanogens from acidic peat bogs and then isolate and culture them in the laboratory under peat bog conditions have been unsuccessful -- until now.
• Sustainability task force recommends seed grant program to encourage collaborations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Sustainability problems are real, immediate, and answers must be found if we are to have a just and humane future on this planet," warns a report issued by the provost's Task Force on Sustainability in the Age of Development.
• National biotech meeting to be held at Cornell, June 12-14 | Cornell Cooperative Extension news release | 05/02/2006 news release
  
  The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC) will hold its 18th annual meeting at Cornell University, on the Ithaca and Geneva campuses, June 12-14.
• How 10,000 bees decide where to go when they fly the coop -- decision-making to rival any department committee | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.
• Cornell plans how to seed New York Harbor, planet's most urban estuary, with oyster reefs, wetlands, bird-nesting isles | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/17/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The Manhattan area has the most urban estuary on the planet. So imagine it with oyster reefs, shoreline wetlands in Harlem, public waterfront for small boats, bird-nesting islands and thriving populations of striped bass and flounder.
• Cornell partners with local industries to produce pesticide sprayers and 'biofurniture' to reduce air pollution | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/04/2006 news release
  
  Researchers at Cornell are recipients of the first round of seed money that promises to turn research discoveries into marketable products. Two examples: the world's first hand-held sprayer for concentrated pesticides and microbe-loaded "engineered biofur
• Careful with that bug! It's helping deliver $57 billion a year to the U.S., new Cornell study reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/01/2006 news release
  
  Insects are good for the economy. According to a new study co-authored by John Losey, the dollar value of some insect services is more than $57 billion a year in the United States.
• Sweet smell of success: Cornell aid could bring new line of maple products throughout New York state | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/31/2006 news release
  
  Give New Yorkers the opportunity to buy more state-produced maple products and New York maple-syrup producers could reap profits five times greater than what they make now.
• Slow, insidious' soil erosion threatens human health and welfare as well as the environment, Cornell study asserts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
• The dating game: Social behavior of sweat bees evolved with Earth's warming a mere 20 million years ago, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/13/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  In the first study to link social evolution to climate change, Cornell University entomologists show that the social behavior of many species of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during a period of global warming.
• Invasive wasp, Southern Hemisphere forest devastator, found to be 'well-established' in upstate New York | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/24/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Last year while sifting through insects from a trap from Fulton, N.Y, E. Richard Hoebeke, a Cornell University expert taxonomist, discovered a single specimen of an alien woodwasp that devastates conifers.
• Cornell biogeochemist shows how reproducing the Amazon's black soil could increase fertility and reduce global warming | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground.
• Plants 'eavesdrop' for their own protection, Cornell researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/16/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Insect-damaged sagebrush has a novel way of broadcasting to nearby plants that a predator is in the area: It releases a bouquet of airborne odors and perfumes. If wild tobacco is growing nearby, it will "eavesdrop" on these chemical signals.
• Berger and Parlange elected to National Academy of Engineering | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2006 Chronicle feature
  Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
• Now world has access to four-second evidence that ivory-billed woodpecker lives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/09/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Four seconds of video that rocked the world of ornithology -- featuring a fuzzy but painstakingly analyzed ivory-billed woodpecker sighting -- is now available on the Web site of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
• Cornell's 'spider woman' spins web of science outreach that stretches far beyond the classroom | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/02/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  Linda Rayor's webs aren't to snag prey but to capture the scientific imagination of people of all ages. Using the mystique of spiders as a gateway to kindle an awe for nature in others, this arachnophile has become the hub of giant webs of learning.
• Wanted by Cornell and USDA researchers: A natural enemy to curb two invasive, poisonous vines | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature
  
  They've been here more than 100 years but have exploded in the last 10 to 15 years, and it will still be a minimum of 10 years before we can even release a natural enemy to control their growth," said Antonio DiTommaso, associate professor of weed science
• Elvis the mystery bird has searchers scouring Arkansas habitats for signs of roosts, nests or stripped bark | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Elvis. That is the nickname that Larry Mallard, refuge manager for the White River National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Arkansas, uses for the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
• Stick to wild salmon unless heart disease is a risk factor, risk/benefit analysis of farmed and wild fish shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  On the one hand, farmed salmon has more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than wild salmon.
• Elusive bird is everywhere and nowhere | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/14/05 Chronicle feature
  
  As Cornell's Lab of Ornithology staffers and volunteers gear up for a six-month search for the ivory-billed woodpecker, residents of Brinkley might be wondering why this bird is so hard to find.
• Cornell's Drinkwater and Wolf head up federal study on how responses to agricultural pollution target the problem | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/13/2005 Chronicle feature
  
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• Lab of Ornithology launches new search for elusive ivory-billed woodpecker's roost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/13/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Main Street of Brinkley, Ark., is riddled with reminders that the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed to be extinct for decades, was rediscovered last year just a few miles from the edge of town in the Bayou DeView
• Cornell and India sign new agreement for agricultural development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/13/05 Chronicle feature
  
  Exchanging scientific information freely, forging cooperative research, hosting Indian executives, students and faculty, and sharing agricultural biotechnology to promote the development and use of drought- and pest-resistant crops.
• N.Y. state awards Cornell's Walker $750,000 for biofuel research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Biological and environmental engineer Larry P. Walker of Cornell University has been awarded $750,000 by a New York state research agency.
• Cornell to co-host avian flu conference Nov. 30 in D.C. | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/23/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  Cornell University has teamed up with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., to co-host a conference on avian flu to create dialogues among experts from the government & private sector.
• Engineers digitally preserve massive Lab of Ornithology collection by looking to technologies that don't yet exist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/15/2005 Chronicle feature
  
  The video and sound engineers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library -- billed as the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video -- are in the process of digitizing their entire collection.
• Smithsonian Magazine names Jane Mt. Pleasant an 'innovator of our time' | Cornell news release | 11/01/2005 news release
  
  Agronomist Jane Mt. Pleasant joins the likes of Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, Andy Goldsworthy, Wes Jackson, Yo-Yo Ma and E.O. Wilson as one of "35 People Who Made a Difference in the World" in the November 2005 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.
• New book details weapons -- from froth to venom -- of insects and other bugs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/31/05 news release
  
  Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and Other Many-Legged Creatures" by Cornell University's Thomas and Maria Eisner and Emory University's Melody Siegler is in equal parts handbook, field guide and photo album.
• CU researchers get grant to find ways to prevent phosphorus pollution in New York City's third-largest reservoir | news release | 10/24/2005 news release
  
  The Cannonsville watershed in the Catskills region of New York state, one of nine reservoirs that provide drinking water to some 9 million people in and near New York City, is under attack from phosphorus runoff form urban and rural sources.
• Cornell Agroforestry Resource Center shows how forest owners can reap cash without harming the environment | Cornell news release | 10/18/2005 news release
  Got trees? Think that the only way to make some money from them is to cut some down for firewood or lumber? Think again.
• Tammo Steenhuis wins 2005 Henry Darcy Medal for contributions to water research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/04/2005 Chronicle story
  
  Tammo Steenhuis, professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2005 Henry Darcy Medal from the European Geophysical Society.
• Mating game never ends for barn swallows; females stray when males lose sheen, CU researchers find | Cornell news release | 09/29/2005 news release
  
  Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality; the females judge males by their looks -- the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers.
• Eisner wins 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science | Cornell news release | 09/27/2005 news release
  
  Thomas Eisner, a world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution, is the winner of The Rockefeller University's 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.
• Cornell tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to spearhead next green revolution | Cornell news release | 09/20/05 news release
  
  In a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices and concerns over global warming, Cornell University is helping to spearhead the next green revolution by using plants to produce energy, industrial chemicals and green materials.
• Cornell Web site will aid Gulf Coast recovery with precise geographic data | Cornell news release | 09/08/05 news release
  
  A Web site being developed at Cornell University will give reconstruction workers and researchers access to detailed information on the status of critical infrastructure in communities along the Mississippi coast.
• Cornell experts find two new species of crane fly have invaded New York, threatening lawns, golf courses and pastures | Cornell news release | 08/31/2005 news release
  
  Crane flies can cause panic in bedrooms at night when the adult flies emerge in September, looking like oversized mosquitoes with extra long legs. But they don't bite. That's the good news.
• Aphids, spider mites, thrips -- oh, my! Heat and dryness wilts vegetables but creates bumper crop of insect pests | Cornell news release | 08/31/05 news release
  
  The overall lack of rain and high temperatures in New York has created a bumper crop of aphids, spider mites and thrips -- along with harmful viruses that aphids can spread.
• Cornell marine biologist's persistence leads to discovery of invasive sea squirts in vital Maine fishing grounds | Cornell news release | 08/30/2005 news release
  
  Thanks to the doggedness of a Cornell University marine biologist, researchers have discovered that one of Maine's most important fishing areas has been invaded by an alien tunicate, or sea squirt, that could threaten the commercial fishing industry there
• Cornell conservationists propose allowing wild animals to roam parts of North America | Cornell news release | 08/17/2005 news release
  
  If Cornell University researchers and their colleagues have their way, cheetahs, lions, elephants, camels and other large wild animals may soon roam parts of North America.
• Cornell researchers to present audio recordings of ivory-billed woodpecker at Aug. 24 ornithology meeting | Cornell news release | 08/11/2005 news release
  
  Cornell University researchers will present new audio evidence supporting the existence of the phantomlike ivory-billed woodpecker Aug. 24 and 25 at the 123rd American Ornithologists' Union meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Cornell researchers say double knocks may be 'soundprints' of ivory-bills | Cornell news release | 08/24/2005 news release
  
  After analyzing more than 18,000 hours of recordings from the swampy forests of eastern Arkansas, researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University have released recordings offering further evidence --
• Rare South American bird 'sings' with its feathers to attract a mate, Cornell researcher finds | Cornell news release | 07/28/05 news release
  
  Hummingbirds and rattlesnakes move parts of their bodies at amazing speeds. But male club-winged manakins have them both beat -- colorful, sparrow-sized South American birds -- vibrating their wings at twice the speed of hummingbirds.
• From fruit-eating fish to ice storm damage in forest streams, Cornell researchers explore ecological issues at annual meeting | news release | 07/25/2005 news release
  
  50 Cornell University scientists will present at the Ecological Society of America's 90th annual meeting, Aug. 7-12, in Montreal. More than 4,000 people are expected to attend.
• Cornell University co-hosts chronic wasting disease symposium | Cornell news release | 07/22/2005 news release
  
  On Aug. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y., experts from around the nation will address this problem at a special seminar: "Deer and Chronic Wasting Disease in New York State: A Workshop for Sportsmen, Farmers and Outdoor Writers."
• CU researchers announce new technique for rapidly detecting illness-causing bacteria in food | Cornell news release | 7/18/05 news release
  
  Cornell University scientists have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever.
• Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds | Cornell news release | 7/13/05 news release
  
  Organic farming produces the same yields of corn and soybeans as does conventional farming, but uses 30 percent less energy, less water and no pesticides, a review of a 22-year farming trial study concludes.
• Going for the green: Cornell has first | Cornell news release | 07/05/2005 news release
  
  Two new buildings at Cornell University are the first in central New York state and the first residence halls anywhere in the state to earn
• First direct link between ear and brain's vocal control found by Cornell researchers in fish that hear and make sounds at same time | Cornell news release | 07/01/05 news release
  
  Cornell University researchers Andrew Bass, Matthew Weeg and Bruce Land have learned how a common fish found along the West Coast can hum and hear outside sounds at the same time.
• Insects develop resistance to engineered crops when single- and double-gene altered plants are in proximity | Cornell news release | 06/17/05 news release
  
  Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all the insect-killing plants.
• Lactose intolerance seems linked to ancestral struggles with harsh climate and cattle diseases, Cornell study finds | Cornell news release | 6/1/05 news release
  
  A new Cornell University study finds that it is primarily people whose ancestors came from places where dairy herds could be raised safely and economically, such as in Europe, who have developed the ability to digest milk.
• Mud man, manager of Cornell's 91 research ponds, receives awards | Cornell news release | 05/23/2005 news release
  
  Robert L. Johnson is better known to his friends and co-workers as "Bob," but he's "the mud man" to his wife on some days when returning home from work as Cornell University's first - and so far only - manager of the university's Research Ponds Facility.
• Viburnum leaf beetles are back in Northeast, hungrier than ever | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/18/05 news release
  
  The eggs of the viburnum leaf beetle have hatched, and the larvae are beginning to chow down once again on viburnum shrubs in New York state and New England.
• How to hatch more females than males: Some mother birds find the way is to produce more progesterone, Cornell study discovers | Cornell news release | 05/17/2005 news release
  In mammals, sperm from the male determines the sex of the offspring.
• Alien woodwasp that could threaten nation's pine trees found in Fulton County, N.Y., by Cornell researcher | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/05 news release
  
  Despite dozens of interceptions at U.S. ports, a public enemy has infiltrated the nation's borders.
• Turf grass professor receives EPA's Environmental Quality Award | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/10/05 news release
  
  A. Martin Petrovic, professor of turf grass in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, is the winner of a 2005 Environmental Quality Award.
• China Agricultural University president invites Cornell President Lehman to give keynote in Beijing | Cornell news release | 05/06/2005 news release
  
  The president of the China Agricultural University (CAU), Chen Jhangliang, has invited Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman to Beijing, China, to deliver a keynote lecture in September 2005, to 120 university presidents from China and around the
• Why are Coyotes Getting More Aggressive? Cornell Five-Year Study Intends to Find Out | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/05 news release
  
  Natural Resources professor Paul Curtis and his colleagues are launching a five-year, DEC-supported study of coyote ecology and behavior in urban and suburban areas of New York state.
• Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas | Cornell news release | 04/28/2005 news release | Lab of Ornithology news release
  
  Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird -- the ivory-billed woodpecker -- has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas.
• Ecologist Barbara Bedford wins 2005 National Wetlands Award | Cornell news release | 04/14/2005 news release
  
  Barbara Bedford, senior research associate in the Department of Natural Resources, is the recipient of the 2005 National Wetlands Award in the science research category.
• Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are now species of slime-mold beetles -- but strictly in homage | Cornell news release | 04/13/2005 news release
  
  U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
• New York City selects Cornell to head up impact study of 2012 Olympic Games | Cornell news release | 04/11/2005 news release
  
  If New York lands the games, Cornell has committed to conducting the extensive monitoring needed to assess the impact that the games would have at the local, state, national and even world levels.
• Gro Harlem Brundtland, champion of sustainable development and former prime minister of Norway, will give Iscol lecture, April 28 | Cornell news release | 04/11/2005 news release
  
  Her lecture, "The Global Significance of Sustainable Development," is free and open to the public and begins at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall, on campus. It concludes Cornell's Campus Sustainability Month.
• Climate change and growing vehicle traffic are increasing nitrogen pollution in nation's coastal waters, Cornell-led study finds | Cornell news release | 02/19/2005 news release
  
  Much of the nitrogen spewing from vehicle exhausts appears to be contaminating coastal systems, such as Chesapeake Bay, to a much greater extent than previously thought, according to a study by researchers at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
• Missing carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere can be traced accurately to tree root systems by new scaling model | Cornell news release | 01/27/2005 news release
  
  The root systems of trees are known to be major storage banks for carbon dioxide (CO2), a major greenhouse gas implicated in global warming.
• Cornell Web map enabling researchers to drill down to detailed features of Sri Lanka tsunami damage | Cornell news release | 01/24/2005 news release
  
  Kinniya Hospital on the east coast of Sri Lanka was destroyed by the Dec. 26 tsunami, and its 40 patients and hospital staff are missing. It was just one of many buildings poorly prepared for actual disaster.
• CU-initiated engineering nonprofit sets sights on conference | 09/24/2004 Chronicle feature
  
  Hundreds of engineers, entrepreneurs, and educators will gather at Stanford University from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 for the conference "Solutions for a Shrinking Planet," which aims to build networks to address global poverty and sustainability.