Speaker urges consumers to get political about their food
02.21.2012
In discussing the politics and science of calories Feb. 20 as the inaugural Wolitzer Nutrition Seminar speaker, nutrition expert Marion Nestle urged consumers to get more political about their food.

CU-ADVANCE celebrates major accomplishments
02.21.2012
With the CU-ADVANCE Center's five-year grant period drawn to a close, its leaders point to the many ways its goals have been met, but also what more needs to be done.

NYC extension aims to change how Muslims eat
02.21.2012
Extension educators in New York City are changing the way that people at mosques, senior centers and soup kitchens eat by giving free nutrition workshops and sidewalk education.

Honeycomb structure responsible for bacteria's sense
02.20.2012
Cornell researchers have peered into the complex network of receptors that give bacteria the ability to sense their environment and respond to chemical changes as small as 1 part in 1,000.

New wheat varieties resist global wheat threat
02.20.2012
Ravi Singh, a Cornell adjunct professor, said how wheat varieties are being developed rapidly to combat a global threat at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.

$1 million bequest to boost agricultural sciences
02.20.2012
Marcia Stofman Morton '61 has announced she will leave a $1 million bequest to Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; most of it will benefit agricultural sciences.

Senior wins 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship
02.20.2012
A Cornell senior, Brittany Chao '12, has received a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, one of 40 selected out of 750 U.S. applicants.

Ingested nanoparticles could be harmful to health
02.16.2012
Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.

Farmers team up with food banks to feed the hungry
02.16.2012
Collaborators on the Cornell Gleaning Project are discovering ways to help farmers efficiently harness the leftover crops that they don't sell to donate to food banks.

BREAD grant research to tackle plant viral diseases
02.15.2012
A team of international researchers is working to tackle the global problem of plant viral diseases that are spread by insects, thanks to close to $1 million in funding.

Soybeans can grow in New York, thanks to climate change
02.15.2012
Preliminary research suggests that soybeans, usually a more southern crop, can be grown successfully in New York as a result of climate change. Field trials are underway.

Engineered beans show promise for Africa
02.13.2012
Green beans native to Africa but bred and grown at Cornell hold the promise of generating higher-paying crops for sub-Saharan farmers.

Borlaug fellow starts food science program in India
02.13.2012
A 2006 Borlaug fellow from India has taken what he learned while at Cornell and established a food science and technology program in India.

Teaching vineyard to partner with community college
02.13.2012
A new 2.5-acre teaching vineyard will open in Yates County in cooperation with Finger Lakes Community College.

Life science incubator welcomes first client
02.10.2012
A Feb. 9 celebration marked the opening of Cornell's McGovern Family Center for Venture Development, and the arrival of its first client, Glycobia Inc.

Professor Mark Bain dies at age 56
02.10.2012
Mark B. Bain, professor of systems ecology in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources, died Feb. 8 at the age of 56.

Week of events on climate change marks Darwin Days 2012
02.09.2012
A week of events Feb. 12-18 will celebrate the 203rd birthday of Charles Darwin and his ideas under the theme of climate change.

Doctoral student to raise money for abandoned kids
02.07.2012
Barrett Keene, Ph.D. '13, is walking from Miami to San Francisco. En route, he will raise money and awareness for poor children and conduct dissertation research on teacher-leaders.

Join the Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 17-20
02.07.2012
This year's annual Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 17-20, may yield unusual results with lack of snow cover, experts suggest. The event is open to the public.

Workshop helps research vessels with trawling
02.06.2012
Cornell's Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake is a springboard for research in fisheries and aquatic ecology in New York state and place for such workshops as a November one on trawling.

Partnership with IC benefits education students
02.06.2012
A new agreement will allow Cornell students who want to make teaching their career the option of completing their master's degree at Ithaca College.

Towns call on DesignConnect for solutions
02.02.2012
Through DesignConnect, Cornell graduate and undergraduate students work in interdisciplinary teams to solve design problems for upstate New York communities.

Research boosts maple syrup production
01.31.2012
Cornell-developed techniques to limit bacteria in maple tree taps are leading to increased sap quantity and quality for New York's $12.3 million maple industry.

Qi wins prestigious American Diabetes Association award
01.31.2012
Ling Qi, a researcher who studies the response of fat cells to stress and its relationship to obesity and type 2 diabetes, received a prestigious award from the American Diabetes Association.

eCornell named a top leadership training companies
01.30.2012
eCornell, which offers online professional and executive development courses, has been named to Training Industry Inc.'s list of Top 20 Leadership Training Companies for the third consecutive year.

Campus Area Farms offer lots of living lab space
01.30.2012
Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers 352 acres - patchwork of 11 small farms - for test plots.

Volunteers sought for simulated Mars mission
01.26.2012
Cornell is working with the University of Hawai'i-Manoa to conduct a three-year NASA study on the diets and food issues of six volunteers who spend four months in a simulated Mars habitat.

Faculty members honored as inspiring teachers
01.26.2012
Cornell professors George Hudler, Ravi Ramakrishna and Yervant Terzian have been recognized for distinguished teaching with Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships.

Librarians share cyber info in India
01.25.2012
Four Cornell librarians and information technologists conferred with counterparts in India at a workshop on information literacy. An outcome is that Indian librarians will come to campus.

Cornell leads Ivy League in Peace Corps recruits
01.25.2012
With 58 undergraduate alumni serving in the Peace Corps, Cornell ranks No. 4 on the top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities among medium-sized institutions.

Imaging live mouse spinal cord will aid trauma therapy
01.24.2012
A study describes an imaging technique that allows researchers to observe a live mouse's spinal cord continuously over time to gain understanding for treating spinal injuries.

CALS plant pathologists put the squeeze on citrus disease
01.18.2012
Genetically engineered orange trees developed by college of Agriculture and Life Sciences' scientists to fight a deadly bacterial citrus disease in Florida will soon be put to the test.

Method identifies mutations that drive genetic diseases
01.18.2012
For the first time, a new computational method allows researchers to identify which specific molecular mechanisms are altered by genetic mutations in proteins that lead to disease.

Algae may be sustainable alternative for animal feed
01.18.2012
Researchers are testing the algae that's a biofuel byproduct as a protein-rich source of feed to supplement or replace some corn and soybean meal mix traditionally given to food-producing animals.

Study uncovers how DNA unfolds for transcription
01.16.2012
Cornell geneticists expand on their previous work that showed how compacted DNA unravels prior to transcription.

Rugged new strawberry has a hint of pineapple
01.12.2012
Herriot is a new tasty strawberry variety with high yields, vigor, disease resistance, eye appeal and a hint of pineapple flavor.

Wasp rediscovered after almost 100 years
01.12.2012
Two tiny wasps have been found in Geneva, N.Y.: One hasn't been seen on this continent since its initial discovery by Cornell scientists in 1915, and the other has never been seen here.

Trevor Pinch edits 'The Handbook of Sound Studies'
01.12.2012
'The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies' looks at the impact and changing impact of sounds in a variety of public and private spaces throughout history.

Soon for sale? Ethnic veggies like maxixe and shiso
01.11.2012
The Cornell Vegetable Program is looking at how to promote the growing and marketing of such ethnic vegetables as shiso, maxixe, tasoi and komatsuna.

Land-grant schools are democracy's colleges
01.10.2012
Associate professor of education Scott Peters is helping to lead a national effort to deepen the civic identities of American educational institutions via the American Commonwealth Partnership.

TEEAL Electronic library resource expands its reach
01.09.2012
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library.

Susan Henry receives state's highest agriculture honor
01.09.2012
Susan Henry, professor and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the New York State Agricultural Society.

Willow biofuels program ignites with new boiler
01.06.2012
The willow bioenergy program has a new $950,000 grant for breeding willow and installing a boiler to heat two buildings at Cornell's experiment station in Geneva.

Strep-resistant fire blight found in New York orchards
01.06.2012
Cornell plant pathologists are warning New York apple and pear growers after discovering that a strain of fire blight is resistant to traditional treatments.

Revolutionary tool will methodically track ocean populations
01.05.2012
Oceanographer Chuck Greene is working to optimize an ocean-observing tool to collect and transmit ecosystem data to his desktop in real time, tracking the ocean like the weather.

Technology tracks birds visiting feeders
01.05.2012
RFID technology repurposed for tracking birds automates data collection, requiring scientists to spend only a few hours a week tending to feeders wired with tracking technology.

Jillian Cohen named a 2012 Knauss fellow
01.05.2012
The doctoral student in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources, will spend one year working for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow for 2012.

How you plate food for kids matters
01.05.2012
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each.

Researchers discover a compound that controls Listeria
01.03.2012
Cornell researchers have identified a compound called fluoro-phenyl-styrene-sulfonamide that is safe for mammals but stops Listeria in its tracks.