CALS News
- Yam ice cream wins 'healthy ice cream' contest
12.03.2008 
- Slammin' Yamz! is the winner of the annual Food Science 101 ice cream contest. The yam-flavored ice cream has beta carotene, molasses, marshmallow swirl, cinnamon and nutmeg and contains less than 4 percent fat.
- High tunnels protect crops from catching diseases
12.02.2008 
- Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect and blemish free - tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The secret? He grows all his tomatoes in high tunnels.
- Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded
11.25.2008 
- Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, for assistants to help with their courses.
- Facebook, texting resemble face-to-face interaction
11.19.2008 
- Two studies show that what works in face-to-face communication can also work in the cyber world.
- Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference is Dec. 9
11.19.2008 
- Hosted by the Department of Applied Economics and Management, the annual conference takes a look at next year's financial prospects for agriculture and agricultural products.
- Soil study suggests future climate change models should be revised
11.18.2008 
- A detailed analysis of black carbon - the residue of burned organic matter - in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating climate change predictions.
- Online receipt idea wins Elevator Pitch Contest
11.18.2008 
- A business idea that would allow people to manage their receipts online was the top winner in the Oct. 29 Cornell Entrepreneur Organization's Elevator Pitch Contest.
- New TV show features New York agriculture
11.18.2008 
- A new television program, 'From Farm to Table,' which airs in the Albany area but is also available online, can help consumers take full advantage of the culinary bounty of the region and eat more healthfully.
- What to do with space waste 100 million miles away
11.17.2008 
- Jean Hunter, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has devised a way to deal with rotten, smelly garbage in the one place where you can't throw out the trash - space.
- Allergies may help prevent cancers, study finds
11.11.2008 
- Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer - particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study.
- Cornell researchers link autism and rain
11.11.2008 
- Cornell researchers find that autism rates are higher in those counties with higher rainfall in Washington, Oregon and California than in dryer parts of the states.
- Einaudi Center funds four faculty grant proposals
11.10.2008 
- Proposal topics include WTO disciplines and biofuels; the process of social displacement and militarization; and the world food crisis as a lens on global development.