News Archive: January – February – March 2006
Research
- March sets record for lack of rain (and snow) across Northeastern locations
- Cornell study finds why tipsy flowers don't tip over
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology counters famous birder's interpretation of fleeting woodpecker video
- Cornell study shows soil erosion threatens human health and welfare and environment
- Social behavior of sweat bees evolved with Earth's warming a mere 20 million years ago
- New Cornell study finds male loons change tunes
- Cornell taxonomist discovers rare woodwasps in upstate New York
- Q & A session with Larry Walker on biofuels
- Developing countries have yet to grow genetically engineered papaya even after saving Hawaii
- Cornell study on attitudes about GE food
- Lehmann touts value of Amazonian black soil
- Pinstrup-Andersen: The world neglect of hunger is 'immoral and appalling'
- Cornell researcher finds plants 'eavesdrop' for their own protection
- Cornell faculty present research topics to AAAS in St. Louis
- Four-second video of existing ivory-billed woodpecker
- Cornell and USDA team up to find a control for two poisonous vines
- Study: Candy on desk is candy in mouth
- Improved methods for identifying what controls complex traits
- Mexicans in New York remain on the fringe of community life
People
- Cornell Prof. Robert C. Baker dies at 84
- Illrich and Kirkville win excellence awards for pest management
- Cornell food policy expert on applying technology to reduce hunger
- Updates about Cornellians participating in 2006 Winter Olympics
- Berger and Parlange elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Buffalo pest managers win award for excellence
- Lamont wins IPM award for his apple-growing innovations
- Travis Mayer, CALS student, competes in Turin Olympics
- Grandin gives lecture on animal behavior, autism, and welfare auditing
- Michael Riley named associate dean in CALS
- Rutz named director of NYS Integrated Pest Management program
- Robert Pool retires after distinguished career as viticulturist at Cornell
- Tony Shelton receives entomology award
Campus
- CALS signs memorandum with three British universities
- Cornell will hold public auction to sell off Solar Decathlon House on April 7th
- Sipple's innovation in teaching with technology
- South Korean delegation visit campus to promote BK21
- Shoals receives new undergraduate scholarships
- Bailey Hall gets renovated
- Bailey Hall forecourt plan unveiled and receives praise
- Agreement on land-grant funding in state budget proposal
- Decker named director of the new Office of Land-Grant Affairs in CALS
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