The Cornell Board of Trustees on May 24 unanimously elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows and re-elected two at-large members and four fellows. Board members also welcomed two alumni-elected trustees, one faculty-elected trustee, one student-elected trustee and two trustees appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki.
Japanese shore crabs, a square-shaped crustacean that poses a direct threat to soft-shell (steamer) clams, mussels and lobsters, were discovered July 13 by Cornell University marine biologists in Owl's Head, Maine, on the shores of Penobscot Bay. The detection of this crab, which has the potential to hurt Maine's seafood industry.
A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the molecular structure of a key protein in this interbacterial communication has been solved.
Scientists and engineers have waged a long war on the Eurasian watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed that diminishes swimming, boating and the environment. Using standard mechanical means of harvesting the milfoil, winning the war looked bleak, but environmentally friendly biological control may be the answer.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in the old days -- say 1993 -- Cornell University agriculture students surfed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics System gopher site at the university's Albert R. Mann Library for the latest in crop and farm information. Well, that was then. Now, the USDA site has jumped onto the World Wide Web. It can be found at: . To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) about two years ago. These files included crop, livestock and agricultural economic statistics from the United States and other countries. Last year, the system was expanded to include reports from the ERS, NASS, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). These include weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts and estimates on crop production, dairy outlooks, wheat forecasts, and many others.
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund, will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell.
H. Alex Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and newly named Kimmel Foundation Scholar in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, is assembling a research team to study the function of phospholipase D, a natural enzyme that is believed to be a crucial biochemical link in the cell-signaling cascade that permits the spread of many kinds of cancer cells.
To offer a healthful alternative to the 1992 U.S. Food Guide Pyramid, Cornell and Harvard University researchers have teamed up with other experts to unveil an official Asian Diet Pyramid. (January 1996)
In a 20-mile radius of York, N.Y., more than 30,000 dairy cows on 100 farms produce as much sludge as 1.5 million people. But with the help of Cornell agricultural engineers, the community literally may soon clear the air.