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For Banned Books Week, Cornell Library has a banned-book dispute right on its shelves

Cambridge University Press has asked libraries around the world to pull 'Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World' from their shelves. Cornell Library refused the request. (Oct. 5, 2007)

Why GM's transfer of its health plan to the UAW is a gamble that could flop

In a Cornell Perspectives piece, David Lipsky writes about the new UAW-GM contract's retiree health-care trust fund, called a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, which may have uncertain long-term effects. (Oct. 5, 2007)

The Ezra Files: Faculty 'cooks' and home economics

The School of Human Ecology began as a department in the agriculture college in 1907. It came into its own in 1919, and 50 years later was renamed the College of Human Ecology. (Oct. 5, 2007)

Conference focuses on critical diversity issue: What happens to blacks, Latinos once they reach college?

Strategies for improving retention and achievement among minority college students were explored at a conference sponsored by Cornell, the Teagle Foundation and Credit Suisse, Oct. 2-3 in New York City. (Oct. 4, 2007)

Forum addresses revised Campus Code of Conduct, including provisions for off-campus behavior

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)

Diet for small planet may be most efficient if it includes dairy and a little meat, Cornell researchers report

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 and students getting involved in making climate neutrality a classroom focus

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)

Lockheed Martin gives $63,000 to College of Engineering

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)

Dillard reappointed director of Cooperative Extension

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)

Riha named director of NYS Water Resources Institute at CU

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 is named director of Cornell Real Estate

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)

Elusive agent that triggers immune response in plants is finally uncovered by BTI researchers at Cornell

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)