Applied Social Sciences News

News features relating to recent applied social sciences research achievements or activities in CALS.

Conference investigates the best ways to translate research into policy and practice | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/12/2009 Chronicle feature

The take-home message from the 2nd Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference Developing a systematic method of taking basic research in the social and behavioral sciences and translating it into real-world practices will ultimately improve American lives.
New CALS option teaches biology for the real world | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2009 Chronicle Feature

CALS students in non-life science majors can partially meet their life sciences distribution requirements without taking a two-semester introductory biology survey course.
Half of U.S. children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/03/2009 Chronicle feature

Food stamps are important indicators of poverty and risk of food insecurity, "two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health," says Cornell Professor Thomas A. Hirschl.
Lecture series covers basics in entrepreneurship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2009 Chronicle feature

"We designed this series with the intention of really covering the most important aspects of entrepreneurship," said Dan Cohen, eLab's Entreprenuer-in-Residence and a faculty member in the ILR School.
NPR's 'Science Friday' taps Cornell ornithologists, veterinarians for live show | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature

Bird migration and insights into being a veterinarian were the topics that Ira Flatow addressed Oct. 9, 2009 in his two-hour show, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," broadcast live from Bailey Hall before nearly 1,000 people.
Undersecretary of agriculture turns to Cornell as a model of urban extension | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature

The USDA is planning to launch the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which will address the issues of food safety, nutrition and obesity and will be modeled after the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Program offers green job training to veterans, many with disabilities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/22/2009 Chronicle feature
CCE Onondaga has created a program called A Different Shade of Green, which will provide job training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for jobs in environmentally sustainable fields.
Regulatory reform vital for financial stability, panelists say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2009 Chronicle feature

Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley, author Robert Kuttner and Cornell economist Eswar Prasad participated in the Lund Critical Debate on the financial crisis, moderated by Jonathan Kirchner.
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.
van Es wins national award for advancing inclusiveness | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature

Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in applied economics and management at Cornell, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive the new Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty from Ernst & Young LLP.

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A chat with Alice Pell, Cornell's new vice provost for international relations | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/07/2008 Chronicle feature

Alice Pell, professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, took over as vice provost for international relations July 1.
A food scare by terrorists could 'substantially' affect consumers and markets | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/14/2009 Chronicle feature

A study by Cornell researchers, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, provides insight into how use of the food supply by terrorists might affect consumers and food markets.
Aging population, sustainability issues come together at interdisciplinary conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/31/2009 Chronicle feature

At the first Cornell Conference on Aging and the Environment, discussions focused on 3 topics: the potential impacts of climate change on the elderly; environmental volunteerism among older adults; and the environmental impact of housing for the elderly.
Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference slated for Dec. 9 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature
Intended for agribusiness professionals, industrial leaders, policymakers, educators and farm managers, the conference is presented by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
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.
Al Gore and Ratan Tata agree that 'leapfrog' technologies could counter climate change and poverty | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/04/2009 Chronicle feature

Al Gore and other panelists, including Ratan Tata '59, chairman of the Tata Group, agreed that the "tyranny" of gleaning short-term gains in economics and politics too often undermines long-term progress.
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.
Alumni survey concludes that entrepreneurship classes shape attitudes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/16/2008 Chronicle feature

Does taking even one class in entrepreneurship have an impact on one's future career?
Jay Walker named 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/26/2009 Chronicle feature

Jay Walker '77, chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, has been named the 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. He will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration April 16-17.
Johnson School at Cornell University Seeks New Business Ideas in BR Ventures' Cornell Venture Challenge | Johnson School Release | 2/5/2009 Johnson School Release
Reformatted competition offers finalists coaching from expert judges
Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration slated for April 16-17 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 3/30/2009 Chronicle feature
'Big Idea' finalists fine-tune business ideas -- from glowing pillows to Peruvian clothes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/13/2009 Chronicle feature

For Josh Groleau '11, his "big idea" came to him while he was in high school, taking apart a snowmobile with his dad.
Cornell is an academic 'feast,' says Jay Walker '77, Entrepreneur of the Year | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/14/2009 Chronicle feature

Solace, perhaps, for ILR School students struggling with their required statistics course: Jay Walker, ILR '77, didn't like it, either.
eLab helps nurture nine undergraduate student businesses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 4/15/2009 Chronicle feature

Student Agencies eLab, the nonprofit accelerator for undergraduate businesses, is helping nine student groups this semester develop and grow their business ideas.
Entrepreneurs Seek Next Big Idea in Competition | Daily Sun feature | 4/20/2009 Daily Sun feature
Ezra Cornell’s development of the telegraph made him a leading entrepreneur of his time. Following in Cornell’s spirit of entrepreneurship, this year’s Big Idea competition celebrated ingenuity of students in the fields of business and social enterprise.
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.
Angela Horne honored by Johnson School | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/06/2009 Chronicle feature

Horne joined the Management Library 10 years ago, has greatly expanded the library's capabilitie and developed new career resources to help serve the Johnson School's students. She has also focused on her staff, encouraging team development and values.
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.
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.
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.
Book charts trend of retirees moving to rural communities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature

The book, "Rural Retirement Migration" (Springer), looks at historical trends in rural retirement migration and migration from the perspectives of retirees who have moved in as well as community leaders in their destination communities.
Law professor defends legality of controversial wars | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/21/2008 Chronicle feature

In a new book, Cornell Law School faculty member Jens David Ohlin asks -- and answers -- one of the most debated questions of our time: When is war justified?
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...
Brad Bell wins award for productive, varied research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/08/2008 Chronicle feature

In August, associate professor of human resources studies at the ILR School Brad Bell received the first Early Career Achievement Award given by the Academy of Management's Human Resources Division.
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.
Business as usual not an option for rescuing world food system, says Cornell's Pinstrup-Andersen | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/03/2008 Chronicle feature

At the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Boston Feb. 14-18, Per Pinstrup-Andersen delivered a lecture on "Science and Policy Priorities for the Global Food System."
Secure voting systems may result from federal grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/05/2008 Chronicle feature

New research by Rafael Pass, Cornell assistant professor of computer science, could make Internet business exchanges more secure and lead to more reliable voting systems and online auctions.
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 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 directs meeting at U.N. on socio-economics impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature

The AIDS crisis in Africa was discussed Sept. 9 at the United Nations University (UNU) Cornell Africa Series Symposium in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at the United Nations.
CU economist calls for 'stimulus shock and awe' for U.S. economy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/10/2008 Chronicle feature

One week after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the U.S. economy has been mired in a yearlong recession, Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicted that the financial tumult would continue well into 2009.
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 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 study: Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2009 Chronicle feature

Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, reports a new Cornell study.
CU study on nurse home visits has led to national program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/16/2009 Chronicle feature

David Olds, Ph.D. '76, who spearheaded the project as a doctoral student at Cornell delivered the 2009 John Doris Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Family Life Development Center (FLDC), April 7, describing how the project became a nationwide program.
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
French writer, German scholar and British poet named A.D. White Professors-at-Large | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
Cornell has appointed Hélène Cixous, Hans Föllmer and Denise Riley as A.D. White Professors-at-Large through June 2014. Professors-at-large scheduled to visit this fall are Shri Kulkarni, Bassam Tibi, Okko Behrends, J. Craig Venter and Lakhdar Brahimi.
Cornell Urban Scholars gain perspective, experience from summer program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/25/2008 Chronicle feature

Tywanquila Walker spent the summer working with families in New York City and came away with a new perspective on research and working with communities. She was part of the seventh class in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP).
How equal is opportunity? Seminars engage alumni in social sciences research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/29/2008 Chronicle feature

One in three black children lives in poverty, in contrast to one in seven white children. Unemployment rates for blacks are consistently twice as high as they are for whites.
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.
Cheyfitz named director of American Indian Program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature

Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell, has been named director of the American Indian Program (AIP), effective July 1.
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.
Come-hither chemicals also slow aging -- in worms, discovers Cornell researcher | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2008 Chronicle feature

A paper published online in Nature, reports that a mixture of molecules called ascarosides, which extend life span in C. elegans worms, also acts as a sex pheromone, connecting the two seemingly disparate life processes of aging and reproduction.
Community college development director Barbara Viniar to lead Chesapeake College | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/10/2008 Chronicle Feature

Barbara Viniar, executive director of the Cornell/State University of New York Institute for Community College Development (ICCD), will leave Cornell to become president of Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Md., beginning July 1
Persistent poverty is focus of latest Institute for the Social Sciences theme project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/10/2008 Chronicle Feature

In a world of unprecedented wealth, half of the planet's 6 billion people live on $2 or less a day. This despite relief efforts to stimulate socio-economic advancement for those caught in poverty traps.
Folks below the 'digital divide' would use the Internet more if they had it, research suggests | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/11/2008 Chronicle Feature

There is still a "digital divide." Rich people are connected to the Internet more than poor people, and some worry that this creates an "electronic underclass" unable to access important services.
Conference investigates the best ways to translate research into policy and practice | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/12/2009 Chronicle feature

The take-home message from the 2nd Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference Developing a systematic method of taking basic research in the social and behavioral sciences and translating it into real-world practices will ultimately improve American lives.
Consumer Camp participants get the skinny on overeating | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/22/2009 Chronicle feature

"Our mission in the lab is to observe eating behavior as it occurs in the real world and come up with ways for people to avoid these food traps," said Brian Wansink, the lab's director and the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing in AEM.
Contentious Knowledge theme project probes how social and political actors challenge expertise | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2009 Chronicle feature

The ISS 2006-2009 project focused on topics such as climate change, genetically modified food, economic development and other areas in which "authoritative knowledge" derived from science has influenced public policy debates and boiled over into conflict.
Cornell-Nepal Studies Program weathers a civil war and looks to the future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2008 Chronicle feature

A peaceful political resolution to the civil war in Nepal should boost enrollment in a unique study abroad program at Cornell: The Cornell-Nepal Study Program, founded in 1993.
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 continues to generate more than $3 billion in New York annually | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/18/2009 Chronicle feature
Cornell generated $3.317 billion statewide in fiscal year 2007, 8 percent more than it did two years prior in 2005- and led universities in NY in research expenditures, totaling $659 million, according to an economic impact report released by Cornell.
Cornell convenes sustainability panel for hotel industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/01/2008 Chronicle feature

Hospitality leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., June 12, for a Cornell School of Hotel Administration event, "Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry," to hear experts address the need to further develop sustainable business practices.
Cornell faculty, students team with entrepreneurs to brew up a hot new brand | News Release | 10/13/08 Hotel School News Release
Faculty and students at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration are working with a team of entrepreneurs to launch a new venture that will enable more people to enjoy a brand of coffee unlike any other in the world.
Kessler Fellows Program to let engineering students embrace their entrepreneurial spirit | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/21/2008 Chronicle feature

The College of Engineering is offering a select group of students the chance to learn how to make their technological innovations into working businesses, thanks to a gift from Andrew J. Kessler '80.
Weill Hall business incubator gets new momentum with $7.5 million McGovern gift | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature

Weill Hall's planned life sciences business incubator has a new name and new momentum, thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Kevin M. McGovern '70, his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Jarrett '03 and Ashley '08.
Hospitality Innovation Study Launched by Cornell Faculty Team | News Release | 11/18/2008 Press Release
Researchers from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration are asking the hospitality industry to share its best new ideas.
Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/25/2008 Chronicle feature
Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.
With perfect accuracy, Cornell team's ChemE car wins national competition | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature

With their shoebox-size car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the 18-member undergraduate ChemE Car Team placed first at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student-car competition in Philadelphia Nov. 16, beating out more than 30 other teams.
Reap the Benefits of Student-run Investment Funds | 11/1/2008 Tech Transfer Tactics Newsletter

Some technology transfer offices have an additional weapon in their arsenal to develop and commercialize new technologies: technology-focused investment funds managed by entrepreneurial MBA candidates.
Students by day, entrepreneurs by night | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/18/2008 Chronicle feature

For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus provide an academic foundation for their dreams of starting and running their own companies after graduation.
Cornell creates life-changing business opportunities with the world's poorest people | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2008 Chronicle feature

At the Johnson School's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise (CSGE), poverty alleviation is about business innovation that springs from close partnerships between the world's largest corporations and poor communities.
Cornell 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 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
Cornell global expert offers clues to why grinding poverty in Africa persists - and keeps rising | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/05/2008 Chronicle feature
"We have this global picture of tremendous progress, and yet in sub-Saharan Africa [for example] we see tremendous stagnation," said Christopher Barrett, associate professor of AEM in a talk at the Cornell Club in Manhattan.
Cornell helps Indian marketing experts boost their country's fledgling food industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2008 Chronicle Feature

To help food retailers and manufacturers in India , two food marketing experts in Cornell's Food Industry Management Program presented a five-day executive development program in India, Jan. 28-Feb. 1.
A 'gold rush' of international food manufacturers and retailers has led to growing pains in India | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2008 Chronicle Feature
With its rapid growth, emerging middle class and democratic government, India has become a leading target market for international food manufacturers and retailers.
By doing good, Cornell can do well, says the new tech transfer leader Alan Paau | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2008 Chronicle Feature

After a little over a year under a new leader, Cornell's technology transfer strategy has changed. It's not about making money but about building the local economy and getting the results of research out into the world where they can do some good.
Cornell helps build demographic research capacity in Francophone Africa | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/15/2008 Chronicle feature

Cornell is working with the Institute for Demographic Training and Research (IFORD), a leading institute for demographic training in French-speaking Africa, with hopes of fortifying population science programs in Africa.
Cornell-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 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.
The effects of Israel's West Bank barrier: Hopelessness, shattered lives and distrust, says Cornell scholar | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/10/2008 Chronicle feature

The Israeli-West Bank barrier that Israel has been constructing since 2002 is damaging Palestinians' culture, education and economy, says a Cornell scholar who recently returned from four months as a Fulbright scholar.
Art as language: Jane Hammond at the Johnson | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/22/2008 Chronicle feature

Dreams, memory and a visual language reminiscent of rebuses are all at play in the variegated artwork of Jane Hammond, whose recent works on paper are on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art through March 23.
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 podcasts offer career advice in a sinking economy | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/10/2009 Chronicle feature

"We try to use the podcast to pull in alumni and appeal to current students to be part of the networking that is so important," says host Romi Kher, an AEM graduate student, who launched the series with Rachel Gordon '08 and professor Deborah Streeter.
Cornell provides insights into results from new poll partnership with New York Times and NY1 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/25/2009 Chronicle feature
The findings of the first Cornell/New York Times/NY1 poll gave New York state residents a snapshot of their collective zeitgeist about obesity, key politicians, the economy and gay marriage when it was released in early June 2009.
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 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 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 surveys students on campus and in swing states | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2008 Chronicle feature
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 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 to continue as New York center for economic development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature
Cornell has been granted a three-year extension as the New York State Economic Development Administration (EDA) University Center to strengthen the capacity of local institutions in New York state to promote economic development.
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.
Children are hurt by chaos at home, says trio of professors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/28/2008 Chronicle feature
Historically, U.S. children have experienced chaos for decades due to the nation's high rates of migration, poverty, and maternal and child mortality.
Cornell 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.
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.
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.
Deputy Provost David Harris to present seminars on social inequality to alumni | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/12/2008 Chronicle Feature

Harris' presentation will be the first of four seminars for Cornell alumni. In his June 18 talk, he will draw from material from his forthcoming book, "The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist".
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.
Despite market turmoil, financial engineering 'quants' see number-crunching future | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature

Cornell financial engineering master's students Elisabet Gudrun Bjornsdottir, Mattan Horowitz, Duncan Wong and Urvashi Batra walk through lower Manhattan, near the New York Stock Exchange.
Did people 'lie' about race on November election surveys? No evidence, says CBS News panelist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/27/2009 Chronicle feature
"Race did play a role in the 2008 presidential election," but not the way most people think, said Kathleen Frankovic '68, director of surveys and a producer for CBS News, at the Survey Research Institute's Annual Speaker Series last week.
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.
Economic crisis is not fault of 'big, bad Wall Street' but everybody involved, say panelists | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/30/2008 Chronicle feature

The Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Current Event series began he Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Current Event series began Sept. 25 in Call Auditorium, where students and faculty came to hear alumni talk about the mortgage crisis.
Economy needs an even larger stimulus for desired 'short, sharp jolt,' says CU economist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/27/2008 Chronicle feature

Steven Kyle, associate professor of AEM and a frequent commentator on macroeconomic issues, also made some predictions in his Feb. 26 lecture, "Will the Stimulus Actually Work? -or- Are We Looking at a Rerun of the Great Depression?
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.
Einaudi Center funds research on food crisis, World Trade Organization, biofuels and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants. Selections were based on the projects' potential to advance research by junior faculty, to generate external funding and to bring long-term benefits to international studies
Einaudi Center grants fund research on African nutrition, Egyptian cinema and more | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/14/2008 Chronicle feature
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants for 2008.
Einaudi Center names new program directors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2008 Chronicle feature

The Einaudi Center has appointed 5 new program directors: Christopher Anderson, IES; Daniel Gold, South Asia Program; Jonathan Kirshner, Peace Studies Program; Sarosh Kuruvilla, Southeast Asia Program; and Ding Xiang Warner, East Asia Program.
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.
Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein honored with NSF early career awards | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/16/2009 Chronicle feature
The award is for those who "exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organization," according to the NSF.
Experts to dissect Obama-McCain domestic policies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/02/2008 Chronicle feature
"Educate the Vote: McCain v. Obama in 3D -- Data and Debate on Domestic Policy," will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday 9/26/08 in Bailey Hall. Experts on health care, immigration and Social Security will analyze the candidates' proposals and take questions.
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.
Extension helps communities be more efficient | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2009 Chronicle feature
With an eye on achieving sustainability in the 21st century, Cornell and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) are helping upstate municipalities explore how they could merge or share services.
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 address obesity prevention with N.Y. health commissioner | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature

New York Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., met with faculty members in the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and of Human Ecology to discuss obesity prevention, and sought their ideas for "turning sound science into sound policy".
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.
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.
For U.S. foreign policy, change is on the way (maybe) | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/07/2008 Chronicle feature

Nicolas van de Walle, David Patel and Peter Katzenstein took on the question in a roundtable discussion, "American and the World: Foreign Policy Issues for the Next President," before an alumni audience June 6.
Former Colombian mayor, now presidential hopeful, cites Medellín reform as proof that education is engine of change | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/23/2009 Chronicle feature

As candidate for mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Sergio Fajardo took long walks around town, stopping to speak with people at schools, on soccer fields and at street corners. He sought to win the people's trust and to transform the violence-ridden city.
Former longtime Cornell communication chair William B. Ward dies at 90 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/02/2008 Chronicle Feature
Ward served as a Cornell faculty member for 63 years, teaching for 56 years (1945-2001) and serving as department chair for 26 years (1945-71). As chair, he was instrumental in expanding and shaping what is today called the Department of Communication.
Free articles get read but don't generate more citations, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/31/2008 Chronicle feature

When academic articles are free online they don't get cited more often because, suggests Cornell graduate student Philip Davis and colleagues, most researchers probably already have all the access they need to relevant articles.
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.
From teacher training to cultural exchange, students get to know Rwanda | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/09/2009 Chronicle feature

A service-learning trip to Rwanda was organized by the Cornell Public Service Center and conceived by Stephen Paletta '87, whose nonprofit organization, the International Education Exchange (IEE), hosted Cornell students.
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.
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.
Geri Gay's innovative work deepens digital crossroads | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/06/2008 Chronicle feature

Gay plays a leadership role in a dozen or so studies in the areas of social networks; influence, persuasion and games; and information-seeking. She and her colleagues use their findings to make recommendations for improving existing software.
Gov. Paterson names Cornell to run new rural schools center during visit to Ithaca | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/15/2008 Chronicle feature

The goal of the center will be to work with the state and New York's 356 rural school districts (of which nearly half are considered high need). It's expected that the center will become a hub for services targeted to serve rural schools across New York.
Grad student Kevin McAvey starts foundation to reverse upstate New York 'brain drain' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature

Applied Economics and Management (AEM) graduate student Kevin McAvey has started a foundation to encourage college graduates to stay in upstate New York.
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.
Help create WikiCandidate -- the ideal presidential candidate | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/08/2008 Chronicle feature

Cornell communication graduate students Josh Braun and Dmitry Epstein; Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell assistant professor of communication; and a team of undergraduates have developed a Wiki Web site where anyone can assemble the perfect candidate.
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.
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 School names new associate dean for external affairs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/11/2008 Chronicle feature
Jon Denison has been appointed associate dean for external affairs at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, where he will provide strategic direction for alumni affairs, development, corporate affairs and communications.
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
ILR School report for U.N.: 'Green' economy may produce millions of jobs | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/01/2008 Chronicle feature
But the report, "Green Jobs: Toward Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World," also finds that some jobs in the new green economy will be "dirty, dangerous and difficult" -- particularly low-paying jobs in agriculture and recycling.
IMF chief analyst Eswar S. Prasad appointed to Cornell's Tolani Senior Professorship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/27/2006 Chronicle feature
Eswar S. Prasad, chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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.
Incoming freshman class more diverse, but achievement rates still lacking, says deputy provost | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/08/2009 Chronicle feature

Enrolling students from more diverse backgrounds is just one of four broad university goals. Equally important are engagement, inclusiveness, and achievement.
Inequality at work continues to worsen, says economist | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/03/2008 Chronicle feature

Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, was the speaker at "Opportunity 103: Inequality at Work," the third in a series of four seminars for alumni organized by David Harris.
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.
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).
Johnson School's Mark Milstein to study U.S. military's economic efforts in war zones | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/26/2008 Chronicle feature

To study the U.S. military's approaches toward promoting economic development in conflict zones, Johnson School professor Mark Milstein was recently awarded $100,000 from the Social Equity Venture Fund.
Johnson School students spend immersion time in Colombia advising businesses | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/23/2009 Chronicle feature

While most students relaxed or took beach vacations over spring break, 33 Johnson School students spent an intensive 6 days in Colombia, advising business leaders on ways to grow their operations, forge into new markets or stay current in the online world
Josephine Allen, first tenured black woman at Cornell, reflects on 32-year career | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/02/2009 Chronicle feature

Allen taught public policy and critical perspectives with a focus on social welfare policies and families, and worked internationally in Hong Kong, Jamaica, Ghana and South Africa, where she was a Fulbright scholar.
Kathleen Vogel awarded Carnegie grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2008 Chronicle feature

Kathleen Vogel, assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Peace Studies Program, has been awarded a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Kaushik Basu receives one of India's highest civil honors | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature

Kaushik Basu, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics and director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell, received India's prestigious title of "Padma Bhushan" in January.
Kavli symposium looks at the future of computing | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature

Computer scientists and engineers -- and one neurophysiologist -- met at Cornell Oct. 12-14 for a Symposium on Computing Challenges sponsored by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.
Kids in poverty are hurt by mom's stress and lack of social networks, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature

"Our findings contrast with the view that inherent, personal qualities of low-income parents are the root cause of deficient parenting," said Gary Evans, a Cornell environmental psychologist.
Population center and its demographic research boosted by $1.15 million grant | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/14/2008 Chronicle feature

Now, the program's ability to conduct demographic research at the national and international level has been boosted with a $1.15 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/12/2009 Chronicle feature

Aaccording to studies at the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab (CLAL), children who learn a second language can maintain attention despite outside stimuli better than children who know only one language.
Lecture series covers basics in entrepreneurship | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/13/2009 Chronicle feature

"We designed this series with the intention of really covering the most important aspects of entrepreneurship," said Dan Cohen, eLab's Entreprenuer-in-Residence and a faculty member in the ILR School.
Levine named interim director of Einaudi Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/06/2009 Chronicle feature

Gilbert E. Levine, professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering, became interim director of the university's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Jan. 1. His term runs through June 30.
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.
Logevall named director of Cornell's Einaudi Center | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/16/2009 Chronicle feature

Fredrik Logevall, professor of history, has been named the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell and director of the university's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
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.
Mabaya wins 'best paper' at annual African conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/10/2008 Chronicle feature

Edward Mabaya, senior research associate in the Emerging Markets Program of the Department of Applied Economics and Management in CALS, was awarded the prize at the annual gathering of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa.
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.
Mannix is new vice provost for equity and inclusion | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature

Elizabeth A. "Beta" Mannix, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Management at Cornell's Johnson School and the Robert S. Harrison Director of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences, has been named the university's vice provost for equity and inclusion.
Maralyn Edid recognized for her 'innovative solutions to community issues' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/23/2008 Chronicle feature

Edid, senior extension associate for workforce, industry and economic development in ILR, has been selected for the 2008 David J. Allee and Paul R. Eberts Community and Economic Vitality Award from Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute.
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.
Meeting developing-world challenges requires large-scale vision, vice provost tells conference | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/28/2009 Chronicle feature

At the Collaborate@Cornell: Global Partnerships, Knowledge and Technology conference, vice provost Alice Pell noted that the era of small projects that involve just a few hundred people is over.
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.
Mellon Foundation grant aids higher ed economics | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/07/2009 Chronicle feature
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $699,000 grant for research and training in higher education economics to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).
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.
NPR's 'Science Friday' taps Cornell ornithologists, veterinarians for live show | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/2009 Chronicle feature

Bird migration and insights into being a veterinarian were the topics that Ira Flatow addressed Oct. 9, 2009 in his two-hour show, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," broadcast live from Bailey Hall before nearly 1,000 people.
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 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 Ph.D. combines ergonomics, environmental psychology, facility planning, design | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/29/2008 Chronicle feature
Offered in the College of Human Ecology's Department of Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), the doctorate in human behavior and design (HBD) program will draw on DEA's subject specialties.
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 York women's panel looks at financial crisis from a female perspective | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/22/2008 Chronicle feature

"In this period of economic downturn there's one area where we [women] have achieved equality," said U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-14th Dist.) Oct. 20 at the Cornell Conference Center in New York City. "Job loss."
New book dissects race-based disadvantage | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/18/2008 Chronicle feature

Interim Provost David Harris has edited a volume of articles with Ann Chih Lin of the University of Michigan titled "The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist" (Russell Sage Foundation; 2008).
New course on best practices for social change will study how Davids conquer Goliaths | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2008 Chronicle feature

Cornell will offer a new course in fall 2008 that focuses on best practices for social change: Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Problem Solvers (Applied Economics and Management 366).
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 leadership program develops prototype for performance management | Cornell news release | 05/30/2008 Chronicle feature
The Division of Human Resources and Cornell University Finance and Administration (CUFA) joined forces this past year to offer the Harold D. Craft Leadership Program, other leadership development programs and a new capstone program, Leading Cornell.
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.
Nutrition alumni reunion honors Michael Latham | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/11/2008 Chronicle feature

The Cornell International Nutrition Alums Reunion celebrated Latham's 40 years as professor of international nutrition, his scientific and other contributions to health and nutrition worldwide and his 80th birthday.
Obama should compensate Africa, promote democracy, stresses former Botswana president | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/09/2009 Chronicle feature

From T-shirts and hats to the sides of buses and buildings, the face of President Barack Obama is ubiquitous throughout Africa. So too are the expectations of what his administration can do for the continent, said former Botswana President Festus Mogae.
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 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.
Cornell faculty to confer on troubled waters in Greece | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature
Got a bug on a shrub? New Web site can help Northeasterners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature

The Web site, at http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/aes_ornamental.asp, provides easy-to-read fact sheets with such information as range maps, photos of pests, the damage they cause and life-cycle charts.
Brain's gray cells appear to be changed by trauma of major events like 9/11 attack, a study suggests | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/27/2008 Chronicle feature

"This suggests that really bad experiences may have lasting effects on the brain, even in healthy people," said Barbara Ganzel, the study's lead researcher and postdoctoral fellow at Cornell's College of Human Ecology.
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.
Overworking husbands drive working wives back into the home, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/01/2008 Chronicle feature

Youngjoo Cha, a Cornell doctoral candidate in sociology, found the phenomenon occurs among women across occupations, but the link is strongest among women with children and professional women.
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.
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.
Pinstrup-Andersen pioneers a program to take issues of hunger and poverty to their global grassroots | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2008 Chronicle feature

By posting course materials online and teaching workshops around the world on how to use them using a social entrepeneurial approach, a Cornell course may help to alleviate some of the world's hunger and poverty.
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.
Poverty researchers kick off three-year Institute for the Social Sciences collaboration | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/06/2009 Chronicle feature

The 2008-11 Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project will focus of questions such as: Why does chronic poverty grind down citizens of both poor and wealthy societies? And what can be done to relieve it?
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 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 offers green job training to veterans, many with disabilities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/22/2009 Chronicle feature
CCE Onondaga has created a program called A Different Shade of Green, which will provide job training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for jobs in environmentally sustainable fields.
Promoting local foods is paying off, CU research shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 1/22/08 Chronicle feature
In northern New York, more food is going directly from farm to consumer, cutting out the middleman and saving thousands of miles in food shipments.
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.
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).
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.
Regulatory reform vital for financial stability, panelists say | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/17/2009 Chronicle feature

Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley, author Robert Kuttner and Cornell economist Eswar Prasad participated in the Lund Critical Debate on the financial crisis, moderated by Jonathan Kirchner.
Retirees on the move are 'grey gold' and a bit of the blues for rural towns, Cornell research finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/26/2008 Chronicle feature
Older people who retire to rural destinations are sometimes called "grey gold" because of the boon they are to the local economies. Two Cornell Researchers have found they can also drive up housing prices and cause other negative effects on communities.
Rob Ryan '69 speaks on success, flowers and zebras | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/05/2008 Chronicle feature

The Department of Applied Economics and Management 1210 -- Entrepreneurship Speaker Series brings entrepreneurs and others involved in personal enterprise to campus to share their thoughts on getting to the top and staying there.
Robert Constable, founding dean of computing and information science, will step down in 2009 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/11/2008 Chronicle Feature

Constable led the creation of Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS), an interdisciplinary program that stretches across campus with more than 50 affiliated faculty members, each with a joint appointment in some academic department.
Taft to serve as interim dean of AAP | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/18/2007 Chronicle Feature

W. Stanley Taft, associate professor of art and associate dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), will serve as interim dean of the college when current dean Mohsen Mostafavi leaves at the end of the fall 2007 semester.
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.
Scholars to address 'Militarizing Everyday Life' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/15/2009 Chronicle feature
A diverse group of scholars will explore the relationship between security and insecurity, and between military conflict and modernity, in a 2-day conference, "Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life," April 17-18 2009.
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 next U.S. president: Universities are effective diplomatic assets | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/08/2008 Chronicle feature

In a newly published book, Cornell President David Skorton advises the next U.S. president that America's colleges and universities have potential to serve as one of the nation's "most effective and credible diplomatic assets."
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.
Ethnic co-existence in Kenya is critical for harmony, say panelists in forum on understanding tribal warfare | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/02/2008 Chronicle feature

A March 28 forum on understanding the current situation in Kenya was organized by the Wananchi Association in conjunction with the 2008 NYASA annual conference and the Heal Kenya campaign at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center.
Spotlight on sociology transitions | 03/25/2009 Chronicle feature

In August, Richard Swedberg will begin a one-year term as chair of the American Sociological Association's (ASA) theory section, and when Dan Lichter will step down from his post as chair of the ASA's family section.
State comptroller and Cornell help local governments through economic crisis | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/18/2009 Chronicle feature

To help local governments find new ways to deliver services at a lower cost to their constituents, comptroller Thomas DiNapoli created the institute, in partnership with Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) and Hofstra University.
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.
Opperman receives community 'Award for Excellence' for enhancing local quality of life | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/20/2008 Chronicle feature

Cornell Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman received the Tompkins County Foundation Award for Excellence for her contributions toward improving the quality of life for the Tompkins County community through her active and ongoing volunteerism.
Watt Webb 80th birthday symposium to explore future research June 16 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature
A symposium honoring the co-inventor of such breakthrough imaging technologies as multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Kavli Lecture and Henri Sack Memorial Lecture.
Human ecology lecturer Bill Rosen dies at age 57 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/21/2008 Chronicle feature

Rosen served as director of the Capitol Semester in Albany program. He also was a recipient of such prestigious awards as the New York State Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Merrill Presidential Scholar Outstanding Educator.
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.
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 help Botswana firm that markets wild-food products and helps locals | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/14/2009 Chronicle feature

To help a fledgling natural-food products company in Botswana that produces snacks from plants in the wild while benefiting local communities, three Cornell students and a faculty member flew to the southern African nation for 10 days over winter break.
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: Women who serially cohabit are less likely to marry or stay married | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/13/2008 Chronicle feature

The study, an analysis of 4,832 women- of which 1,795 had cohabited -from the 1979-2000 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, conducted with Zhenchao Qian, a professor at Ohio State University, is published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
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.
Teachers hone skills at educator development day | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/2009 Chronicle feature

In one of the 110 workshops offered to local teachers at the 5th annual Educator Professional Development Day at Cornell, they learned how movement can be used to explain math concepts.
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.
Theater educator Martha Dewey killed in car accident | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/29/2009 Chronicle feature

Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, said: "We have lost a colleague, a mentor and a friend. Martha's impact on the campus through her role as artistic director and founding member of CITE was profound, her talents were many and impressive."
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.
The miseries of allergies just may help prevent some cancers, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/11/2008 Chronicle feature

There may be a silver lining to the miserable cloud of allergy symptoms: Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer- particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer.
Thick and thin diners differ in approach to buffet eating | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/14/2008 Chronicle Feature

The study of diners observed at Chinese buffet restaurants across the U.S. is published in the August issue of the journal Obesity by Brian Wansink, Cornell's John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, and Collin Payne, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher.
Three faculty members invited to National Academy of Engineering symposium | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/02/2009 Chronicle feature
The 15th annual symposium, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering, will feature 88 engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing "exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines," according to the NAE.
Acting, singing and dancing for social change is part of new initiative at Cornell | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/26/2008 Chronicle feature

The Center for Transformative Action (CTA) has launched Performing Arts for Social Change, a new strategic initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance.
Keeping the Commitment to the Book | Cornell Library Communications | 07/02/08 Press Release

One side of the digital divide grabs most of the headlines, but in the humanities, printed material is still indispensable. A $30,000 endowment from the Class of 1956 will establish a fund to boost Cornell University’s humanities print collection.
$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.
Trochim gets $2.3 million from NSF to evaluate science-based education | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/05/2008 Chronicle feature

William Trochim, professor of policy analysis and management, will collaborate with educators, scientists and students to develop and implement new ways to evaluate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programs.
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.
Undersecretary of agriculture turns to Cornell as a model of urban extension | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2009 Chronicle feature

The USDA is planning to launch the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which will address the issues of food safety, nutrition and obesity and will be modeled after the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
University of Colorado hosts tribute for Alfred Kahn | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature

The conference marks 30 years since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, which was spearheaded by Kahn, the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Cornell, when when he was chair of the now-defunct Civil Aeronautics Board.
Upward Bound preps 50 regional high schoolers for college | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature

Upward Bound, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, brings high school students to universities to give them academic support with an emphasis on college preparation.
VP Tommy Bruce named to higher ed public issues group | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
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.
Voting for a candidate is not about policy or experience -- it's about charisma, researchers find | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/30/2008 Chronicle feature

In a matter of seconds, voters can decide -- based on their perception of a candidate's charisma -- which of two candidates will win a race. About 60 percent of the time, they are correct, according to a new study.
Want to win friends and influence people? Use Facebook and IM, studies suggest | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/19/2008 Chronicle feature

It's an age-old question: How do you get a new acquaintance to like you? Jeff Hancock, associate professor of communication, says that he and his research team have found that what works in face-to-face communication can also work in the cyber world.
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.
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.
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.
Cornell researchers address issues of health and poverty in Africa at U.N. meeting | Cornell news release | 05/30/2008 Chronicle feature

A symposium on governance in Africa at the United Nations in New York on May 21 was one of four on Africa that Cornell and the U.N. University have jointly planned for 2007-08.
Why the French don't get fat: They know when to stop eating, finds CU's Wansink | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/07/2008 Chronicle feature
Why don't the French get as fat as Americans? Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study.
Why the 'oil' that greases India's economic engine -- its financial system -- needs an upgrade | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/24/2008 Chronicle Feature

The Indian economy has been growing at a break neck pace in recent years. However, the country is in serious need of financial reforms to make that growth sustainable and inclusive.
William Block on his role as CISER's new director | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/13/2008 Chronicle feature

William Block is completing his first semester as director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER).
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.
With hundreds of degrees of separation, the Internet doesn't always resemble a 'small world' | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/04/2008 Chronicle feature

A study of Internet chain letters by Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, and David Liben-Nowell '99, professor of computer science at Carleton College, shows that such messages do not fan out widely, but travel in long straight lines.
Women firefighters can take the heat, but too few firehouses give them the chance, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/05/2008 Chronicle Feature

Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by Cornell's Institute for Women and Work in the ILR School.
Women have come far, but still have a long way to go toward equality, say speakers | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/20/2009 Chronicle feature

Panelists discussed sexism in the workplace as part of the International Women's Day celebration on campus March 11.
Women opt out of math/science careers because of family demands, study concludes | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/11/2009 Chronicle feature
The authors concluded that hormonal, brain and other biological sex differences were not primary factors in explaining why women were underrepresented in science careers, and that studies on social and cultural effects were inconsistent and inconclusive.
World food crisis is as much about ethics and prices as availability, say experts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 04/08/2009 Chronicle feature

During "Visible Warnings: The World Food Crisis in Perspective," a two-day conference at Cornell, world experts examined the history, economics, ethics, ecological implications and politics of food security and the current food crisis.
Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/25/2008 Chronicle feature
Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell. The awards allow faculty to work with students by providing assistants to help with courses.
Zoos, documentaries and hiking are vital to science literacy, finds new report | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/20/2009 Chronicle feature

The report says that learners in informal environments experience "excitement, interest and motivation to learn about phenomena in the world." These responses form the foundation for learning in informal environments rich in science phenomena.
The world neglect of hunger is 'immoral and appalling' and feeds terrorism, says Cornell expert | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/17/2006 Chronicle feature

Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action, according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger.
Cornell signs pact with Paris institution on environmental research | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/08/2006 Chronicle feature
Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with École Normale Supérieure in Paris to facilitate academic exchange and to support collaborative research activities related to environmental issues.
$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.
van Es wins national award for advancing inclusiveness | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/14/2009 Chronicle feature

Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in applied economics and management at Cornell, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive the new Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty from Ernst & Young LLP.
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.
Trauma may alter the stress response, even in healthy people, Cornell study shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/20/2007 Chronicle feature
Cornell researchers report that rapes, sudden deaths of loved ones, life-threatening accidents and other such traumas may result in long-term changes even if the survivor doesn't develop a clinical disorder.
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.
Wansink accepts 14-month appointment as executive director of USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion | Cornell Chronicle Feature | 11/20/2007 Chronicle feature

Brian Wansink, Cornell's John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, has accepted a 14-month appointment as executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
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.
CU researchers shed light on light-emitting nanodevice | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/04/07 Chronicle Feature

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell nanotechnology researchers has unraveled some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise for light-emitting, flexible semiconductors.
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.
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.
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.
New York MarketMaker Web site links farms and businesses across the state | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/04/07 Chronicle feature

Small, specialized agricultural producers and marketers in New York state now can find one another with just a few clicks, thanks to an interactive Web service spearheaded by Cornell Cooperative Extension/New York City (CCE/NYC).
Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/02/07 Chronicle Feature

About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, wh
Cutting Anemia in Half in Poor Countries | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/07 Chronicle Feature

Nutritional supplement cuts anemia in poor children by half
Assessing levies for accidental by-catch, say researchers, could generate money to protect threatened species | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/18/2007 Chronicle feature

Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened.
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.
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.
Maker of sour power cherry drink developed with Cornell food scientists gets $2.3 million in venture funding | Cornell Chronicle feature | 6/20/07 hronicle feature
CherryPharm Inc., a start-up company that sells an all-natural, tart cherry sports drink developed in conjunction with Cornell food scientists, has received $2.3 million from the Cayuga Venture Fund (CVF). With this investment, CherryPharm will expand its
Cornell institute launches publications and programs to foster community development | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/29/2007 Chronicle feature

To help rural community leaders maintain services and establish new ones in the face of shrinking tax bases and limited infrastructures, Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) has issued new publications.
Students put marketing and management skills to work for Kenya's seed industry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/27/2007 Chronicle feature

In early January, five Cornell students led by Edward T. Mabaya, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management, traveled to Kenya for an intense 10-day field study.
Mood-food connection: We eat more and less-healthy comfort foods when we feel down, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/23/2007 Chronicle feature

People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by a Cornell food marketing expert. However, given nutritional information, those same sad people curb their hedonistic comsumption.
Mindless autopilot' drives people to dramatically underestimate how many daily food decisions they make, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/22/2006 Chronicle feature

People estimate that, on average, they make about 15 food- and beverage-related decisions each day. But the truth is, they make more than 15 times that -- more than 200 such decisions.
Cornell professor's Malaysian breast cancer project brings awareness and treatment by combating taboos | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2006 Chronicle feature

Since 2003, Caffarella has worked with the Laboratory of Education and Research in Cancer at UPM to develop an infrastructure to support Malaysian women suffering from breast cancer.
When the package says 'low fat,' the calories can pile up, Cornell study of snack foods finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/06/2006 Chronicle feature

People -- especially overweight people -- consume up to 50 percent more calories when they eat low-fat versions of snack foods than when they eat the regular versions, according to a new Cornell study.
Getting at the many tangled webs of digital deception we seem hardwired to weave | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/15/2006 Chronicle feature

Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
Cutting Down on 'Mindless Eating' is Focus of New Book | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/01/2006 Chronicle feature

The average person makes more than 200 food-related decisions every day, day in and day out -- yet isn't aware of 90 percent of them, says Cornell marketing professor Brian Wansink in his new book.
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.
Freshness date influences consumer perceptions, regardless of food safety, study shows | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/17/2006 Chronicle feature

As food manufacturers move away from expiration dates and use "best if used by" dates on foods instead, research shows that consumers turn their noses up as the "best if used by" date approaches -- and not because of the food's perceived safety.
Seven-year glitch: Cornell warns that Chinese GM cotton farmers are losing money due to 'secondary' pests | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/25/2006 Chronicle feature

Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for several years by saving on pesticides have now been eroded.
People with a sweet tooth eat more fruit, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/12/2006 Chronicle feature

People who like sweets eat more fruit than salty-snack lovers, and people who love fruit eat more sweets than vegetable lovers do, according to two Cornell University analyses.
New York farmers visit Mexico to probe dairy workers' lives | Cornell Chronicle feature | 6/13/2006 news release

In January 2007 up to 10 New York state dairy farmers will head to Mexico to help better understand Central American workers back home.
Child soldiers coerced into military conflicts are barrier to peace process | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/09/2006 Chronicle feature

As long as children continue to be coerced into militias -- as they are by the thousands in Colombia, Sudan and dozens of other countries -- peace talks in those countries to settle armed conflicts are unlikely, assert two Cornell University researchers.
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.
Teenagers who cut or burn themselves find support on the Internet, but also share 'toxic' information, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 05/01/2006 Chronicle feature

Some 500 Internet message boards are bringing together adolescents who injure themselves -- with cuts, carvings, scratches or burns. It is a world that is invisible to adults but of increasing importance to teenage social lives.
Cornell signs MOU with three British universities | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/28/2006 news release

Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with three British universities to cooperate on research focused on rural change and policy in North America and Europe.
Teaching with technology: How FIT fits into instruction | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/20/2006 Chronicle feature

John W. Sipple, an associate professor of education at Cornell, had been teaching the Social and Political Context of American Education (Education 271/571) for seven years and had a smattering of audio and video in his class. But it was always a hassle.
If science can send rockets to Mars and Pluto, it can reduce world hunger and poverty, asserts Cornell food policy expert | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature

Applying science and technology to build a spacecraft that travels more than 10 times faster than a speeding bullet or a cell phone that fits in a matchbox are great achievements. But what about feeding the 800 million hungry people in the world?
Is genetically modified food a risk or benefit? Americans are split but growing somewhat more skeptical, study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/18/2006 Chronicle feature

More than two-thirds of the food in U.S. markets has at least some amount of a crop that has been genetically engineered (GE). Do Americans believe that GE food is a health risk or benefit?
CU scientists bring their research to AAAS in St. Louis | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/15/2006 Chronicle feature

Cornell faculty members will present research on topics from how dragonflies stay aloft to the fight against world hunger at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Feb. 16-20 in St. Louis.
Cornell students take winter break and provide 'thousands of dollars' of advice and help to Tanzanian seed companies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2006 Chronicle feature

The six-member team visited two seed companies, both in Arusha, a fast-growing hub for commerce and trade in northern Tanzania
Temple Grandin to lecture on animal behavior, autism and welfare auditing, Feb. 15 | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/06/2006 Chronicle feature

Temple Grandin, renowned designer of humane livestock facilities and associate professor of animal science at Colorado State University, will speak on "Animal Behavior, Autism and Welfare Auditing," Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
First-of-its kind New York City conference to look at labor's responses to globalization | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature
At an unusual international labor conference in New York City, Feb. 9-11, trade unionists and scholars will strategize about the role of the labor movement in a globalized world.
The 'temptation factor' -- candy on the desk is candy in the mouth, Cornell study of women finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature

When it comes to candy, it is out of sight, out of the mouth, a Cornell University researcher finds.
Cornell professor launches professional society and journal with $750,000 grant from U.S. Department of Education | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/01/2006 Chronicle feature

A new professional organization, the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), with its own peer-reviewed journal, is being launched by Cornell University professor Mark Constas
Grant renewal allows Cornell to continue studies on impact of smoking cessation ads and drug advertising | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/25/2006 Chronicle feature
A renewed grant from the Merck Company Foundation is enabling Cornell researchers to go forward with a number of research projects to help consumers in the realm of pharmaceuticals and health.
Mexicans are settling in upstate New York in record numbers but remain on the fringe of community life | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/05/2005 Chronicle feature

Mexican farmworkers and their families are settling in rural upstate New York communities in record numbers, but of the newcomers can't speak or understand English, and most are marginalized in their communities, finds a new Cornell University study.
Shape of glass influences how much alcohol is poured -- and how much you will drink | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/23/2005 Chronicle feature

When pouring liquor, even professional bartenders unintentionally pour 20 to 30 percent more into short, squat glasses than into tall, thin ones, according to a new Cornell University study.
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.
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.
Study finds that the more committed a relationship, the happier the partners | Cornell Chronicle feature | 12/01/2005 news release
Biofortified, iron-rich rice improves the nutrition of women, study by Cornell researcher shows for the first time | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/29/2005 Chronicle feature

In the first study to test people who eat foods that have been bred for higher-than-normal concentrations of micronutrients, researchers have confirmed that conventional plant breeding can affect human nutritional status.
Cornell workshop in Geneva connects science with business | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/23/2005 news release

A growing number of Cornell researchers today believe they have an idea for a start-up company. However, the marketplace requires more than a new product.
Cornell, Columbia collaborate on workshop for fledgling companies | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/14/2008 Chronicle feature
Cornell will partner with the Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management to help six promising technologies get a boost toward commercialization at a March 2008 Pre-Seed workshop in New York City.
Cornell's greenhouses: Hundreds of plant projects, each with a different purpose | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/30/2007 Chronicle feature
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) recently assumed responsibility for greenhouses.
Cornell agribusiness conference Dec. 6 explores new wine shipment legislation along with 2007 federal Farm Bill | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/23/2005 Chronicle feature

The impact of new wine shipment legislation, the 2007 Farm Bill and trends in specialty crops are a few of the highlighted topics that will be explored at the annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference Dec. 6 at Cornell University.
Big portions influence overeating as much as taste, even when the food tastes lousy, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 11/09/2005 news release

According to a new Cornell University study, when moviegoers were served stale popcorn in big buckets, they ate 34 percent more than those given the same stale popcorn in medium-sized containers.
Developing 'win-win' ways to encourage people to eat better | Cornell Chronicle feature | 10/12/05 news release

Just because people know that a food is nutritious does not mean they will eat it. In fact, efforts by government officials, health professionals and even parents have been surprisingly ineffective in getting people to consume a more nutritious diet
Cornell researchers receive $2 million federal grant for computational social sciences project using Web archive | Cornell Chronicle feature | 09/28/2005 news release
A team of Cornell University researchers has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop advanced Web tools for social sciences research.
Tolani Professorship to strengthen Cornell's ties to India | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/08/2005 news release

The Mumbai-based Tolani Shipping Co. Ltd. recently endowed the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the graduate alma mater of the company's chairman
Cornell overeating study suggests that how much we eat depends more on external cues, such as portion size, than on biological signals | Cornell news release | 08/15/2005 news release

If you binged for two weeks while on vacation and gained 5 pounds, would you be biologically primed to eat less to compensate and shake off the excess weight? No, suggests a new Cornell University study.
Cornell program seeks to train people to avoid black bear conflicts | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/20/05 news release

Since training wild bears isn't feasible, Cornell University researchers are targeting people with a pilot program that they hope will change habits that attract bears.
David Harris is named Cornell vice provost for social sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/15/05 news release

David Harris, Cornell University professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell, has been named the university's first vice provost for social sciences, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced.
English skills and presence of family help integrate immigrant farmworkers, New York state study at Cornell finds | Cornell Chronicle feature | 06/13/05 news release

A study of five agricultural communities in New York state finds that Mexican immigrants comprise 95 percent of the fruits-and-vegetables agricultural workforce and that workers increasingly are choosing to settle with their families in these rural commun
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.
CU study finds rural communities with small schools benefit greatly | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/24/05 news release

A Cornell study shows that on almost every indicator of economic and social well-being, rural communities with their own schools fare significantly better than rural communities that no longer have schools.
Socioeconomic trends, rural health, 'civic' agriculture covered in new books | Cornell Chronicle feature | 03/03/05 news release

Socioeconomic trends in New York state over the past half century, how living in rural areas affects health and health care, and the burgeoning "civic agriculture" movement are the topics of three new books by development sociology faculty at Cornell.
Teaching computers to solve tough tasks the human way | Cornell Chronicle feature | 2/24/05 news release

There are some computer problems so hard that computer scientists consider them out of reach, like creating airline schedules or predicting economic trends. They label them "intractable" and move on.
Cornell students' handiwork is part of art creation in Washington, D.C. | Cornell Chronicle feature | 02/03/05 news release

Three Cornell students worked alongside British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, an Andrew D. White Professor at Large at Cornell, in helping to construct a permanent art installation at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
CU poll finds 44 percent favor curtailing liberties for Muslim Americans | Cornell Chronicle feature | 01/20/05 news release

Almost half of respondents polled nationally said they believe the U.S. government should -- in some way -- curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans