News Archive: January – February – March 2007
Research
- CU researcher works to develop cheap, quick test for people with HIV/AIDS in developing countries
- Odd arachnids: whip spiders have a sociable family life
- CU-led research reveals how spinal cord controls speed of movement, giving long-term hope of treatment of injuries
- Warming climate, cod collapse, have combined to cause rapid North Atlantic ecosystem changes
- When fish become extinct, the cycling of critical nutrients in ecosystems changes
- While global warming is fatal to many reefs, some corals are able to fight the heat
- Crows recognize calls of relatives
- Cornell students investigate how ancient Indian gardens thrived in arid conditions
- First endangered fish species recovers
- Study: We eat more and less-healthy comfort foods when we feel down
- $10 million for biofuel research
People
Campus
- Bailey plaza groundbreaking scheduled for March 19
- Nor any drop to drink: Cornell faculty and students to meet in Cairo on water shortages in Mediterranean region
- Cornell's undergraduate business major is 10th in BusinessWeek rankings
- World Food Prize laureate honored
- Grass pellets heat up Big Red Barn in first NY demonstration of new biofuel stove
- Temple Grandin to speak on autism March 13
- Cornell Entrepreneurship Celebration for Alumni, Students, and Faculty
- Schumer tours Cornell's Technology Farm in Geneva
- Skorton considers making Cornell 'climate-neutral'
- Cornell Dining hires two students to promote food-related sustainability efforts
- New cross-campus Global Health Program to offer grad program, undergrad minor, internships, lecture series
- Economic report provides first direct evidence that Cornell is a state powerhouse, generating $3.3 billion in 2005
- Gov. Spitzer's proposed budget gets high marks from Cornell administrators
- Virginian Joel Salatin talks about how his farm achieves sustainability through well-balanced, moveable feasts
- Dyson Scholars endowment to boost Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program
- Cornell and BTI receive $1.8 million from NSF for tomato genome
- CU and local transportation officials adopt biodiesel fuel
- Cornell endows Uihlein Maple Station directorship
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