News Archive 2006
December
- 'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions
- NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva turns 125
- Three Specialists to Join Cornell’s Enology and Viticulture Program
- Cornell begins 'new era' in Lake Erie region grape research
- Online sounds library now open to the public
- CU study reveals pros and cons of therapy for lead exposure
- Queen bee promiscuity
- Low-fat labels promote overeating
- Malaysian breast cancer screening project
- 2006 Weiss Presidential Fellows
November
- Susan Brown Honored with Cohn Professorship at Cornel
- Lethal hybrid genes discovered
- Cornell-developed exhibit at Disney's Epcot
- Bright business ideas garner awards at undergraduate competition
- Getting at the many tangled webs of digital deception
- Indian students visit Cornell
- New findings on bee evolution
- J. Thomas Clark professors
October
- New professorship for Geneva
- NSF Evolution Study
- Theater troupe in biology class
- Luo gets NSF Early Career award
- Zalaznick teaching assistantships
- International Plant Management and Cornell University Release Two New Cherry Varieties
- Extension educator named to position at Cornell's Hudson Valley Lab
- Plant pathologist joins faculty at Cornell's Geneva Experiment Station
- Nutritional Sciences is part of upstate network
- NSF awards $2.5 million for study of house finch eye disease
- Cornell scientists honored for making science interactive and visually exciting
- Rural Vision Project recognized for contributions to rural health care
- CIIFAD is finalist for Alcan Prize
- Freeville Organic Research Farm is now 'certified organic'
- Extension brings IPM to Amish farmers
September
- CU Researchers compare 2 brands of herbicides
- Insectapalooza 2006: Entomology to hold open house
- High tunnels extend growing season
- New food laboratory at Geneva
- DNA Hydrogels
- Watching chromosomes in action
- Beach plum project
- Teachers Go to Work at Cornell's Experiment Station
- Cornell at the state fair
- ASPB Awards
- Cornell Chemist Elected Fellow of American Chemical Society
- Cornell Scientist Receives Distinguished Mycologist Award
- Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension Named APS Fellow
- Peter Jentsch Appointed Extension Associate at Hudson Valley Lab
- Banana-Berry Skorton ice cream
- Monroe-Woodbury Central District receives IPM STAR award
- Cornell Agricultural engineers help improve quality of Lake Ontario
August
- 2006 Heinz research scholars
- Cornellia, the fiberglass cow, has been stolen (again)
- Cornell testers choose Crowley Foods of Albany for best milk in New York
- The decline of just one fish species can disrupt an entire ecosystem, study finds
- Cornell faculty to reflect on 9/11 terror attacks at commemorative forum
- Shoals ecological web
- Freshness date influences consumer perceptions, regardless of food safety, study shows
- Cornell Graduate Students Receive Awards at Geneva Experiment Station
- Cornell Hires New Seed Lab Director at Geneva
- Cornell Scientist Elected Fellow of International Society
- eClips Career Corner gives advice online
- Sen. Clinton and Cornell help launch fund to aid New York's flood-devastated farmers
- Entrepreneur teams up with Cornell food scientists to create sports drink using tart cherries
- Cornell microbiologists help high school teachers improve their skills
- 4-H member is an author at 15, thanks in large part to her Cornell 4-H dog-training club
- CU student serves as goodwill ambassador to protect rivers and lakes
- Students get their feet wet in marine science and the academic life at Shoals summer program
July
- Cornell pest-alert network helps link attacks to changing climates
- Prasad appointed to Tolani Chair
- CU farm services use biodiesel
- Cornell Scientists Partner with Geneva Schools for Summer Science Camp
- Welcome back black currants: Forbidden fruit making a comeback in New York
- Chinese GM cotton farmers are losing money due to 'secondary' pests
- Plum pox virus detected in New York state
- Cornell alumnus Andrew Colin McClung reaps 2006 World Food Prize
- Cornell's wine and grape activities expand to meet demand
- Cornell researchers challenge Cornell-led proposal
- Young 'Nerdy Birders' raise funds for Ivory-bill Project
- Graduate student heads to Afghanistan to tackle country's malnutrition
- People with a sweet tooth eat more fruit
- Evaluating outreach programs
- Child soldiers coerced into military conflicts are barrier to peace process
- Cornell Local Roads Program
- African fish could be forming two separate species
- Cornell releases three new wine grapes
- Copper, cows, and crops
- Too little data available on sludge
- Cornell undergraduates receive Udall scholarships
June
- Ag Biotech meeting looks at land grant
- Mutant corn garden grows
- Challenge gift to benefit Native American students
- CU acquires two 'ecologically fragile' off-campus natural areas
- Cornell alumnus Andrew Colin McClung reaps 2006 World Food Prize
- Evaluating outreach programs
- Graduate student heads to Afghanistan to tackle country's malnutrition
- Noted Cornell Viticulturist, Robert M. Pool, Remembered
- Child soldiers coerced into military conflicts are barrier to peace process
- New York state budget provides funding for wine and grape research.
- Cornell leads initiative to promote organic milk production
- Garden Mosaics takes root in South Africa
- Tiny wasps help keep sweet corn worm-free
- Cornell Local Roads Program
- African fish could be forming two separate species
- Cornell undergraduates receive Udall scholarships
May
- Geneticist Edward Buckler wins U.S. research award
- Organism involved in global climate change is isolated for study
- Gala Dinner Raises $15,000 for Cornell's Vinification and Brewing Lab
- New Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Scott Emr to lead biology institute at Cornell
- New research alliance with Mott's
- How now green cow?
- Hudson Valley Laboratory receives $85K in NYS budget
- NYS Budget Provides Long-sought Funding for Fredonia
- CALS signs pact with ENS in Paris to facilitate academic exchange
- NABC will hold 18th annual meeting at Cornell June 12-14
- Cornell researchers find acid rain alters soils and reduces sugar maple trees in Northeast
- Fredonia Vineyard Laboratory Wins Grape and Wine Industry Award
- Cornellia tops off newly renovated library roof
April
- Domes, dymaxions, trailers and modular homes are part of prefab housing history exhibit at Mann Library
- Speaker: Researchers need to be innovative, curious, persistent, and creative
- Cornell study finds migratory birds unlikely to infect humans with flu
- Cornell biologists discuss honeybee decision-making
- Cornell University scientists plan New York Harbor restoration
- Hudson Valley Entomologist Retires after 35 Years at Cornell
- Cornell's solar house is going, going ... gone! Sold to a local alum
- Horticulture department helps create a vegetable variety website
- Deer on the doorstep: Cornell is overrun by charming but chomping whitetails
- Cornell partners with local industries to bring funding toward producing pesticide sprayers and 'biofurniture'
- New task force to improve Cornell's life sciences graduate education
- New federal grant aims to help Finger Lakes region become economic powerhouse
- Cornell study finds insect services worth more than $57 billion a year
March
- 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
- Cornell Prof. Robert C. Baker dies at 84
- Social behavior of sweat bees evolved with Earth's warming a mere 20 million years ago
- New Cornell study finds male loons change tunes
February
- 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
January
- Improved methods for identifying what controls complex traits
- Mexicans in New York remain on the fringe of community life