News Archive 2008
October
- Weill Hall: a center for ideas, innovation, collaboration
- By going green, Weill Hall meets the gold standard
- Help create the ideal presidential candidate
- Pushing child to 'clean plate' can backfire
- Indigenous grandmothers share stories, songs and wisdom
- Which grass is greener to power the bioenergy era?
- Engineering students can now minor in business
- Student starts foundation to plug 'brain drain'
September
- Mortgage crisis: Lessons learned the hard way
- Entomologist edits book on sustainable pest control
- CNF celebrates new office at Weill Cornell
- N.Y. Farm Day in D.C. features new drink from Cornell
- Celebrating Native Americans' return to ancestral land
- Exploring cooperation for agriculture in Americas
- Uphoff describes rice-growing method in Africa
- Powerhouse team battles to save right whales
- To survive, tiger moths are bright for birds, click for bats
- Protected whales heard near NYC for first time
- Evidence of evolutionary selection found in 544 genes
- CU faculty can now work with regional ecosystem unit
- Cornell librarian Lucille N. Wright dies at age 93
- CU researchers survey for rare birds among Mayan ruins
- Old Order farmers profit from new order idea
- Rob Ryan '69 speaks on success, flowers and zebras
- CU faculty discuss water shortages in Greece
- Kresovich welcomes nine new life sciences fellows
- Researchers locate geographic origins from DNA
- Cornell to help grizzly bears mate and to stabilize tuna populations
August
- Sustainability a key word for CU at New York State Fair
- Book charts trend of retirees moving to rural communities
- Entomologist Soderlund honored with research award
- New Cornell Institute focuses on invasive species
- Two alumni aim to row to victory at Beijing Olympics
July
- Onondaga Nation students get hands-on dairy tour
- Cheyfitz named director of American Indian Program
- Cornell at Empire Farm Days 2008
- Agrawal researches milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars
- Cornell researchers ponder feasibility of undertaking algae for biofuel research
- Cornell's Geneva Experiment Station provides crucial support to the fight against Plum Pox
- Cornell-initiated course promotes rice expertise for the developing world
- From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species, research shows
- Thick and thin diners differ in approach to buffet eating, Wansink finds
- A new look at how genes unfold to enable their expression
- Organic produce, grown on student-run Dilmun Hill Farm, sold weekly on Ag Quad
- Forest birds evolved in an early burst of innovation, DNA shows
- Mann Library upgrades ag 'library in a box' for world's poorest countries
- Brian Earle lectures on the importance of etiquette
- Clinton praises CU green energy initiative
- Cornell students' TranquiliTea earns honorable mention
- Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change
- Milk goes green: Cows fed biotech product reduce agriculture's environmental impact
- Quagga mussels threaten western U.S. water and electric plants, Chuck O'Neill reports
June
- Any Cornell researcher can use the many high-tech life science core facilities available
- Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future seeks proposals for new applied research
- NSF gives Cornell $2 million to enlist kids to find missing ladybugs
- Morning sickness is 'wellness insurance'
- Agriculture's impact far more than economic, study says
- CALS receives "Grand Challenge" award during BioEnergy Awareness Days
- Meeting to consider tree planting as antidote to urban ills is uprooted by 'inconvenient conclusion'
- Alice Pell named vice provost for international relations
- Clean, white, open spaces and lots of light: Weill Hall opens for business
- Geri Gay's innovative work deepens digital crossroads
- The time is ripe for an apple that tastes like berries and one that doesn't brown, says Susan Brown
- Cornell food scientist Frank Shipe dies at age 88
- New study by Shelton shows that transgenic plants don't hurt beneficial bugs
- Cornell to Receive Grand Challenge Award during Bioenergy Awareness Days
May
- Got a bug on a shrub? New Interactive Plant Manager can help Northeasterners
- Alum's organic Frog's Leap winery uses 'green' to make reds and whites
- Students can major in art and science of vines and wines
- Director of Cornell Agricultural Research Station Mike Hoffmann fights bugs with bugs and oversees $5 million for research
- Cornell researchers study bacterium big enough to see-- the Shaquille O'Neal of bacteria
- Former longtime Cornell communication chair William B. Ward dies at 90
- Mother's Day special: With straw and plastic, a one-acre flower is 'painted' for sky viewers
- Sustainability center names three new associate directors
- A tree grows in White Plains: Blight-resistant chestnut honors Ezra Cornell and launches CCE White Plains project
April
- Manhattan extension training is a walk in the park -- with science and hands-on classes
- First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety
- Walter T. Federer, father of Cornell's statistics department, dies at 92
- Five faculty members receive Provost's Awards for Distinguished Scholarship
- Cornell benefactor John Butler Babcock '48 dies at age 85
- Three Cornell undergrads win Udall scholarships, and two earn Goldwaters
- Discovery of link in mosquito mating mechanism could lead to new attack on dengue and yellow fever
- College announces plans for on-campus teaching winery
- Cornell helps Indian marketing experts boost their country's fledgling food industry
- Gates Foundation awards Cornell $26.8 million to lead global fight against deadly wheat plague
- Birders help Great Backyard Bird Count set records
March
- Retirees on the move are 'grey gold' and a bit of the blues for rural towns, Cornell research finds
- Population geneticist Scott Williamson dies at 32
- Sewing the way to sustainability: Town-gown teamwork lights up Caroline
- Maple weekends could be two months earlier by 2080, say Cornell researchers studying effects of climate on industry
- New course on best practices for social change will study how Davids conquer Goliaths
- Cornell food processing expert Don Downing dies at 76
- DiTommaso reaps teaching award from weed society
- Wanted: Volunteers to measure rain, sleet and snow in their backyards
- Old landmines threaten lives and U.S. international relations, says Nobel laureate Rae McGrath
- After Nobel for anti-landmine campaign, Rae McGrath warns of another indiscriminate killer: cluster bombs
- Plant pathologist William Fry elected Cornell faculty dean
- Research on multiple sclerosis and protecting skin in frigid temperatures are highlights of BioExpo 2008
- Why the French don't get fat: They know when to stop eating, finds CU's Wansink
- $6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass
- Behaviorists discover within male loons' yodel, a code that settles issues of life and death
- Cornell partners with Indian university to offer innovative degree in food science
- Cornell researchers win $3.7 million in grants to help create vibrant New York agricultural future
- 'Dark fiber' will give Geneva serious bandwidth
- Walcott, bird researcher and 'ship mover,' retiring from Cornell when his deanship ends
- New courses teach food science and business majors leadership and team-building skills
- Business as usual not an option for rescuing world food system, says Cornell's Pinstrup-Andersen
- Applied Economics and Management is No. 4 in BusinessWeek ranking
- Rural preschoolers get short shrift in access to early education programs
February
- Cornell students organize fundraiser to help Kenya heal
- Digital deity provides museum visitors with data as art
- Getting the lard out: The koshering of the Oreo cookie
- AAAS session debates pitfalls and hidden costs of making online research articles freely available
- Retired Cornell agronomist Earl Stone dies at age 92
- Ray Wu, acclaimed pioneer of genetic engineering, dies at 79
- Cornell scientists find how a protein binds to genes and regulates them across the human genome
- A fruit a day may keep Alzheimer's at bay, suggests new Cornell study
- Mary-Lynn Cummings assumes newly created post of director of space planning at Cornell
- Kent Loeffler's photographs of tiny fungi tower in exhibit 'Miniature Landscapes'
- Konstantin Frank wine cellars donates historic book collection to Cornell
- Pinstrup-Andersen pioneers a program to take issues of hunger and poverty to their global grassroots
- Cornell professor of communication discusses digital deception
January
- Seminal fluid can impact female fruit fly's fertility, offering clues into human reproduction
- What goes down the drain, from ibuprofen to soaps, gets turned out to pasture via toxic sludge, researchers warn
- Students see firsthand how Asia is developing its first genetically engineered food crop
- Grapes of gnash: Pomace, the residue of red winemaking, may help prevent tooth decay
- CU donates a record 82 tons of produce to area food banks
- A story about a wasp, a caterpillar and a fungus ends with more dominating female wasps
- National Academy of Sciences honors Tom Eisner for 'extraordinary scientific achievement'
- New biography by CU professor details George Warren -- Warren Hall's namesake and key FDR adviser
- Promoting local foods is paying off, CU research shows
- Web site hosts gardeners' ratings on veggie varieties
- Discovery can triple vitamin A in maize
- Cornell to share $5.5 million federal grant with Yale for study of major cereal crops
- Campus researchers discover a novel player in how plants protect themselves
- Ross Brann, Al George and David Winkler named 2007 Weiss Presidential Fellows
- Cornell students join international counterparts on agriculture field trip
- Research on how plants transport sugars could be of critical importance in era of global warming
- Professor of horticulture, Mark Bridgen, patents long blooming ornamental
- CU experts to give tips on keeping wild canines away
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