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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)

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)

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)

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.

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Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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)

Congress gets bill to save Arecibo Observatory

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)

CU researchers shed light on light-emitting nanodevice

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)