Associate Professor John Cawley has accepted a seat on the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (July 19, 2007)
E. (Edwin) Scott Maynes, professor emeritus of policy analysis and management and an expert on consumer policy, consumer decision-making and survey research methodology, died at his home in Ithaca, June 24, at age 84. (July 19, 2007)
In the evolutionary battle in which plants are trying to beef up their defenses against pathogens, a bacterium has been found that infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant's cells to undermine the plant's defense system. (July 18, 2007)
Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened. One solution offered by a Cornell researcher and an Australian government scientist is to assess fines when threatened species are caught and killed.
Four U.S. Supreme Court justices and their European counterparts as well as a contingent of faculty, alumni and students attended the dedication of the Cornell University Center for Documentation on American Law, July 17 in Paris. (July 17, 2007)
Basil S. Markesinis, a former visiting faculty member in comparative law at Cornell Law School, is the matchmaker behind the gift of the Cornell Center for Documentation on American Law to the Cour de cassation. (July 17, 2007)
When French justices at the Cour de cassation in Paris expressed a need to establish a library of American jurisprudence, CU Professor Claire Germain suggested donating duplicate copies from the Law School's collection. (July 17, 2007)
The Southside Community Center's Well Pet Clinic, run by students and faculty in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, serves healthy pets and their owners on the second Wednesday of every month.
More than 150 people attended the July 11-14 conference, which was aimed to help define how agricultural educators might address the growing need for sustainable practices in today's environmentally challenged world. (July 17, 2007)
More than 350 cancer survivors and guests were treated to a chicken barbecue provided by volunteer staff at the Hotel School and Statler Hotel at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life, July 13. (July 17, 2007)
Gogo Kiplinger, 88, a homemaker and wife of Cornell trustee emeritus and chairman emeritus of the board Austin H. Kiplinger, died July 15 in Seneca, Md., of ovarian cancer. (July 17, 2007)
Bruce Tabor Wilkins Sr., Cornell professor emeritus of natural resources, died June 30 at age 76 from complications related to a stroke. (July 17, 2007)
