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)
Congressmen Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico and Dana Rohrabacher of California have introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to ensure continued operation of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. (Oct. 3, 2007)
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell nanotechnology researchers has unraveled some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise for light-emitting, flexible semiconductors. (Oct. 3, 2007)
In a move that will affect close to half of Cornell's students, on Sept. 27 President George W. Bush signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which went into effect Oct. 1. (Oct. 3, 2007)