Professor of food science Joe Regenstein discussed the koshering of Nabisco's famous Oreo cookie and other food adventures, Feb. 20, in a talk given as part of Cornell's Jewish Faculty Lecture Series. (Feb. 26, 2008)
Five Cornell science students saw this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting from a new perspective: through the eyes of the press. (Feb. 25, 2008)
Open access to peer-reviewed journals was a hot topic for Cornell researchers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, Feb. 14-18. (Feb. 21, 2008)
A Cornell-led study that compared more than 10,000 sequenced genes from 15 African-Americans and 20 European-Americans suggests that European populations have more harmful variations. (Feb. 20, 2008)
Retired professor of agronomy Earl Lewis Stone Jr. died July 23 at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 92. Stone served for 31 years on the faculty, teaching and conducting research on forest soils. (Feb. 19, 2008)
It is not too early to register for the Third Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, slated for April 10-11 on the Cornell campus. (Feb. 18, 2008)
Ray J. Wu, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, who developed the first method for sequencing DNA and some of the fundamental tools for DNA cloning, died at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca Feb. 10.
Cornell will partner with the Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management to help six promising technologies get a boost toward commercialization at a March workshop in NYC. (Feb. 14, 2008)
John Leggett, of Canterbury, N.H., received an Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award from the New York State IPM Program at Cornell for development of automated weather instruments.