News Archive: July – August – September 2007
Research
- 'Healthy' restaurants help make us fat
- Pest-resistant eggplant developed
- Why some species 'explosively' diversify
- Calling all bird watchers: Help count
- Studying grass for energy needs
- CU researcher engineers sorghum that grows in poisonous soils
- Today's white rice is mutation spread by early farmers, researchers say
- Uncertain rainy days make birds turn to family, Cornell study finds
- Cornell scientists link E. coli bacteria to Crohn's disease
- Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds
- New fruit fly gene discovered
- Why honeybees are promiscuous
- Plant pathogen outwits tomato defenses
- Using fishery fines to fund conservation efforts
- Evidence that up to 10 percent of human genome may have changed very recently
People
- Riha appointed director of NYSWRI
- Dillard reappointed director of CCE
- Solar house heading to D.C.
- Insect experts on CBS, Sept. 9
- Three Cornell studies receive environmental stewardship grants
- Changing careers: From the IMF to Cornell
- NYSTAR grants
- CU viticulture student named Shaulis recipient
- CU grad student receives scholarship
- Retired Cornell plant pathologist William Mai dies at 91
- Syed Rizvi named a Jefferson Science Fellow
- Professor Duane Chapman obituary
- Weed warrior reduces herbicide risk
- Four named Schurman professors
- Extension advocate Bruce Wilkins dies at 76
- Grad students receives McClintock award
- Two grad students receive Robert M. Gilmer award
- Grad student John Diaz-Montano receives Michael Villani Award
- Research leader joins genetics unit
- David Soderlund named Entomology Chair in Geneva
Campus
- Cornell greenhouses are expanding
- Paving the way for Bailey Plaza
- Cornell Library on Google Book Search
- Innovative engineering helps Shoals Marine Lab's new wind turbine meet seabird code
- Island location makes Shoals an ideal case study in sustainability
- CU hosts conference promoting sustainable-agriculture education
Outreach
- Training African plant breeders
- Indian university official visits campus
- NYSAES celebrates 125 years with open house
- Judy's Day focuses on trees
- Composting road kill
- Students apply smart growth concepts
- Novel program underway to increase participation in clinical trials
- Food scientists watch over dairy foods
- Books on digital copyright controversies
- 250 Attend CU Fruit Field Day
- FEAST for Health program
- Floriculture Field Day draws record crowd
- Agricultural Experiment Station to host 125th anniversary open house
- Changing climate effect on agriculture
- 4-H focuses on obesity prevention