New York, NY (February 9, 2004) -- Diabetics who have certain abnormalities on an electrocardiogram (ECG) -- a measure of the heart's electrical activity -- are much more likely to die in a five-year period than their peers who have normal ECG results, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists report in the February issue of the journal Diabetes.Electrocardiograms, which are performed by attaching electrodes to the chest, are one of the easiest and most common heart tests given to patients.
The Honorable Elena Poptodorova, the ambassador from the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States, is visiting the Cornell University campus, Feb. 10-12, to deliver public lectures and meet with community members, university students, faculty members and administrators. On Wednesday, Feb. 11, the Bulgarian ambassador will give a Berger International Speaker Series lecture, titled "The Rule of Law in Bulgaria -- An Emerging Democracy: New Concepts, New Legal Instruments and New Practices," in Room G85 of Cornell Law School's Myron Taylor Hall at 6 p.m. On Thursday, Feb. 12, she will address the topic "A View From the 'New Europe'" at the Peace Studies Seminar of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies in G08 Uris Hall at 12:15 p.m. The ambassador also will speak in visiting lecturer Elena Iankova's International Political Risk Management class at the Johnson Graduate School of Management in Sage Hall's Ramin Parlor, Feb. 12 at 2:55 p.m. All of these talks are free and open to the public. The Law School and the Einaudi Center are the principal sponsors of Poptodorova's visit to Cornell. (February 9, 2004)
For onion growers battling botrytis leaf blight, a crop-decimating disease, relief is on the way. Cornell University plant scientists have breached the plant's tough sexual barrier to cross two species and develop a first draft of a botrytis-resistant onion. The way is now paved for scientists to bring the onion to commercial quality and, perhaps, make it resistant to other diseases as well. Martha Mutschler, Cornell professor of plant breeding, will unveil her research team's results Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. at the 2004 Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo in the Riverside Convention Center's Bausch Room, Rochester, N.Y. Her research collaborators were Jim Lorbeer, Cornell professor of plant pathology; research associate Edward Cobb; and graduate student Pablo A. Goldschmied. (February 9, 2004)
Robert L. Constable has been reappointed for a second five-year term as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Constable became the first dean of the new faculty unit when it was created in the fall of 1999.
Who wants to be a millionaire? Cornell junior Natalie Gulyas does. Gulyas, gets her turn to phone a friend, poll the audience and request a 50-50. She will face TV host Meredith Viera while sitting on the hot seat of the television quiz show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Cornell University Police, with the assistance of the Cortland Police Department, ended a three-month investigation into stolen computer and audio equipment with the arrest of a Cortland man. Daniel P. Roberson, 22, of 160-1/2 Central Ave., Cortland, was charged Feb. 3 with one count of grand larceny in the 4th degree, a Class E felony. He is scheduled to appear in Ithaca City Court on Feb. 11 at 9:30 a.m. (February 5, 2004)
Antigone goes prime time: WSKG-TV will broadcast a full-length performance of the Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance's fall 2003 production of Sophocles' Antigone.
The new name - the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Division of Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College - became effective on Dec. 1, 2003. The official dedication ceremony took place on Feb. 2.
Toss another log on the Yankee fire. This was the coldest January for Bridgeport, Conn., and Boston in a half century, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.