A revised Campus Code of Conduct was discussed Oct. 2 at a public forum in Willard Straight Hall. The Codes and Judicial Committee is soliciting further comments on the code until Oct. 15. (Oct. 4, 2007)
A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount of meat may actually increase this efficiency.
Faculty members from such fields as engineering, biology, architecture and communication are using academic courses this fall to evaluate options for a cleaner, greener Cornell campus. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Continuing longtime support for undergraduate research, Lockheed Martin Corp. representatives visited campus Sept. 19 to present a $63,000 check to College of Engineering Dean Kent Fuchs. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Helene Dillard, Cornell professor of plant pathology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has been appointed to a second ferm as director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Susan Riha, Cornell's Charles L. Pack Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Stephan E. Lauzier, who is in charge of real estate development for the sprawling, 1,450-acre California State Polytechnic University-Pomona campus, has been named director of Cornell Real Estate. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research on the Cornell campus have identified how plants signal that they have been attacked in order to trigger a plantwide resistance. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Science can communicate with, learn from and even benefit from religion and vice versa, said Ann Druyan, widow of Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. She spoke about dialogues in the early 1990s between Sagan and the Dalai Lama. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Intellectual property lawyer Wendy Seltzer says universities should resist 'copyright bullies,' and that political action is needed to reform copyright law. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said defense, economics and power drive scientific discovery, in his Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin lecture, Oct. 1, on campus. (Oct. 3, 2007)
In presentations Sept. 26 on campus and in Ithaca, more than 325 people got a good look at the rigorous, visionary work that has gone into Cornell's Comprehensive Master Plan so far. (Oct. 3, 2007)
