Editor's picks for events the week of Dec. 12 include midyear graduation, Neanderthal sculpture, Middle Eastern folk tales and a concerto competition. (Dec. 11, 2008)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell University, has announced that Stephen H. Howell will be the institute's new vice president for research, Joyce L. Frank will be the new vice president for operations, John M. Dentes will be the new vice president for finance, and Anne Zientek has been promoted to human resources manager.
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.
Nell I. Mondy, 83, professor emerita of nutritional sciences at Cornell, died Aug. 25 at Cayuga Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sept. 17, at the First Baptist Church.
Scott Emr, a highly respected biologist, who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.
The Cornell University Institute for Animal Welfare has been established to foster discussion and research on issues concerning animals in agriculture, laboratories and the wild.
This holiday season, go out on a limb -- give the gift of graft. Without leaving home next spring, gardeners can learn to graft multiple fruit varieties onto a single fruit tree, create unusual growth forms and apply these skills to propagate plants that do not root easily.
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Nov. 24 presented Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize), to Gerardo Chowell-Puente, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, for his research in the mathematical modeling of communication in networks, which has provided new understanding of the way disease spreads through a population. In recent work as a visiting research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chowell-Puente and his Los Alamos colleagues modeled the transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong, Singapore and Ontario, Canada. The work validated the decision of Canadian health authorities to intervene with strict quarantines. Without that intervention, the model showed, the disease might have spread to some 200,000 people, instead of the few hundred who were infected. (November 26, 2003)
After a four-year renovation project, the original Mann Library building has reopened with more room to study and state-of-the-art amenities complementing its vintage Art Deco architecture. (Aug. 29, 2007)