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"I think I can" attitude goes long way in helping shed pounds after giving birth, Cornell nutritionists report

Overweight mothers who exercise daily a year after the birth of their first child are, on average, 12 pounds lighter than overweight mothers who rarely work out, reports a new study from Cornell University.

Ten Cornell Tradition students will use their Senior Recognition Awards to benefit others

Since 1989, the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed recognition program at Cornell University, has been recognizing its own graduating seniors with Senior Recognition Awards. And in true Tradition spirit, say the program's administrators, the 10 senior fellows who have been honored with these awards for their community service and leadership efforts will use their monetary winnings to benefit others. The Cornell Tradition was established in 1982 through an anonymous gift of $7 million. It awards 600 fellowships each year to Cornell undergraduate students based on their work experience, campus and/or community service, leadership and academic achievement. And, as in past years, Cornell Tradition fellows are well represented among Cornell students who have won other prestigious awards, scholarships and fellowships, nationally, at Cornell and in the Ithaca community. (May 22, 2002)

Cornell's "impressive" champion student race-car team triumphs for 7th time at Formula SAE contest in Pontiac, Mich.

Cornell University engineering undergraduates swept the competition again this year at the annual five-day International Formula SAE collegiate design and motorsports competition at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, which ended May 19.

Cornell Plantations names Sonja Skelly as director of education

Cornell Plantations, the arboretum, botanical garden, and natural areas of Cornell, has appointed Sonja Skelly as its new director of education.

From Cottonbelt Festival to children's book, winning entries to NASA comet mission contest are submitted by four U.S. schools

Katy Kaufman and her biology and physical science teacher Pam Vaughan from the town of Fordyce High School in Arkansas will set up a tent with displays about comets at the annual Fordyce on the Cottonbelt Festival.

Cornell Board of Trustees to meet in Ithaca, May 23-25

The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, May 24, in the Yale-Princeton Room.

It's the cat's meow: Not language, strictly speaking, but close enough to skillfully manage humans, communication study shows

After more than 5,000 years of human-feline cohabitation and enough elaborations on "meow!" to fill a dictionary, cats still haven't mastered language. But a Cornell University evolutionary psychology study - analyzing people's reactions to feline vocalizations - shows that cats know how to get what they want. (May 20, 2002)

Harvesting Stem Cells for Transplant in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients Is Still Possible After Treatment with Bexxar

New York, NY (May 19, 2002) A physician from Weill Cornell Medical College reported to a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) in Orlando, FL, today that, in 13 of 16 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who were treated with an experimental monoclonal antibody called Bexxar, it was still possible to collect an adequate supply of blood stem cells for potential use in a transplant in case the patient relapsed.Dr. Tsiporah Shore, Associate Director of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program at Weill Cornell, explained that Bexxar (I131 tositumomab) is being tested as a treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Bexxar is a monoclonal antibodyan antibody specifically targeted against the antigens of that disease. However, because Bexxar is linked to a radioactive molecule, there has been a concern that exposure to Bexxar "might damage the body's supply of stem cells, which could be needed for a transplant if the patient relapsed," according to Dr. Shore.

Weill Cornell Physician Describes Preliminary Results With Trial of a Monoclonal Antibody to Target Solid Tumors

New York, NY (May 19, 2002) A physician in Weill Cornell Medical College's Division of Hematology/Oncology is reporting that a recently developed monoclonal antibody, called J591, targets an antigen expressed in the blood vessels of solid tumors. The physician, Dr. Matthew I. Milowsky, who is just finishing a term as a fellow in the division, makes his presentation today to the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), which is meeting in Orlando, FL.Dr. Milowsky, who will become an Assistant Professor in the division this July, explains that J591 was developed by a colleague, Dr. Neil Bander, and manufactured by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, of Cambridge, MA. "J591 recognizes the extracellular domain of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)," Dr. Milowsky says. PSMA, so named because it was first found in the prostate, is present in the blood vessels of numerous solid tumors, but not in normal blood vessels of benign tissues. The hope is that by attaching a radioactive molecule or other anti-cancer agent to J591, doctors will be able to target tumors specifically for the delivery of therapy.

Rob Ryan, Ascend Communications founder, is named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Rob Ryan, a Cornell University alumnus and founder of Ascend Communications Inc. and Entrepreneur America, will be honored by the university Sept. 26 and 27 as the 2002 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. Ryan earned national attention when he grew Ascend to more than $500 million in sales between 1989 and 1995. The company is a leading manufacturer of Point of Presence boxes (POP) for Internet providers. A POP is an online service provider's access point to the web, and it usually includes routers, call aggregators, servers and, frequently, relays or switches. Lucent Technologies acquired Ascend in 1999 for $23 billion in one of the nation's largest technology mergers. (May 20, 2002)

Teachers of 35 top Cornell students are honored on campus

Cornell University will honor 35 secondary school teachers from as near as Horseheads, N.Y., and from as far away as Singapore, May 21 and 22. The teachers were selected by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars, students who represent the top 1 percent of the university's graduating seniors.

How universities are run is topic of conference at Cornell, June 4-5

Can not-for-profit universities with boards of trustees learn from corporate boards of directors? Are universities essentially unmanageable places, or are there workable strategies for running them well? And should a university fight or welcome a unionized faculty and staff? These and other pressing issues in higher education will be discussed during "Governance of Higher Education Institutions and Systems," the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) annual conference on Cornell University's campus June 4 and 5. (May 16, 2002)