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)
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.
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)
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)
More than 150 participants heard from Cornell faculty and emergency doctors about wilderness medicine and survival during the Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference, Sept. 26-28, at Cornell. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Cornell students are putting community service first with 'A Cappella United,' a benefit concert for the Tompkins County United Way, Friday, Oct. 12, in Bailey Hall. (Oct. 3, 2007)
In a lecture Oct. 2, Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, said that Cornell graduates might be just as likely to start their own businesses as they are to get married or have children. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Cajun pizza with blackened chicken and Tasso ham was just one dish of many served at the Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery on Cornell's North Campus, Sept. 26, for Cornell's Fall Harvest Dinner. (Oct. 3, 2007)