News Archive: April – May – June 2007
Research
- Group meets to develop HIV test
- Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship
- Why starling females cheat
- Modeling dechlorination with dehalococcoides
- Orange cauliflower genetic mutation
- Apple peels may help to prevent cancer
- Decimation of bee colonies has various causes, CU expert says
- Simpler way to counter global warming explained: Lock up carbon in soil and use bioenergy exhaust gases for energy
- Cornell's supercomputers will crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals
- Newly discovered plant enzymes could lead to more efficient ethanol production
- Researchers zero in on genes that turn a plant's ability to self-pollinate on and off
- New York's state insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle, rediscovered after 14 years
- Eating with our eyes: Why people eat less at unbused tables
- Cornell researchers help identify gene that plays key role in size of dogs -- and probably in humans
People
- Emr, Durrett elected to science academy
- Soderlund awarded $2.5 million
- Kogan graduates from Cornell at 71
- Feldman brings international perspective to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Dan Sisler wins top honor from Helen Keller International
- Four women faculty receive first Research Initiative Awards
- Antje Baeumner, awarded two prestigious fellowships, will teach and conduct research in Germany during sabbatical
- Adam Siepel receives Microsoft fellowship for computational genomics
- Faculty members Craib and Christy are winners of Kaplan fellowships in service learning
- Ding Kong '08 wins Udall scholarship
- NSF awards 10 Cornell faculty Early Career Development grants
- Wells and AIDS outreach: Cornell students receive grants for promoting peace
- Institute for the Social Sciences awards 12 new small grants
- Three Cornell undergraduates earn Goldwater scholarships
Campus
Outreach
- Cornell hosts New York summit on renewable energy
- Udall Legacy Bus Tour stops at Ithaca's Farmer's Market
- Cornell Fruit Field Day to be held July 25
- Research shows farmers using less nitrogen can save money
- Cayuga Venture fund invests in CherryPharm
- New Visions program for high schoolers gives opportunity to explore careers
- CaRDI Cornell institute launches publications, seminars, and trainings
- For a 'green' lawn, focus on mowing, not early fertilizing, says CU turf specialist
- Highschoolers discover that agriculture is now the place to be at Technology, Food and Agricultural Career Day
- Cornell Launches Forestry Education Internet Seminars for Landowners
- New site shows forests aren't just timber: think mushrooms, ginseng and sugar