Soundbites

Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:

"Recall positive aspects of all the schools on your list -- especially the 'safety schools.' Get out the brochures and watch the videos, and remember what you liked about them that made you apply in the first place."

--Donald Saleh, dean of admissions and financial aid, advising college applicants and their parents how to overcome disappointment in not getting into their first-choice school, in Time magazine, April 3.

"What we've run into is that various incubators are trying to cherry-pick universities. We've decided at Cornell that we're going to [use the expertise of students] ourselves."

--David BenDaniel, the Don and Margi Berens Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, discussing the school's Big Red Venture Capital Fund, a combination investment fund and business incubator, in an article about venture capital and business start-ups at universities in the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 31.

"Scaling back work hours is a popular strategy among two-career couples to cope with family and employment responsibilities, but the way husbands and wives do it differs: Husbands have careers, and wives have jobs.'"

--Phyllis Moen, professor of human development and sociology and director of the Employment and Family Careers Institute, in the Chicago Tribune, March 7.

"We've gone to all these different data sources, and we consistently find a statistical relationship between the dropout rate (of high school students) and the graduation requirements. It's sort of a like a wake-up call, we hope, to the research community to say, 'We need to pay attention to this.'"

--Dean Lillard, research associate in policy analysis and management, discussing his study on how stricter graduation requirements result in more high school dropouts, in The Washington Post, March 29.

"In the West, we pay farmers not to produce. But in China, the needs are completely different."

--Susan McCouch, associate professor of plant breeding, commenting on China's "enthusiastic" adaptation of genetic engineering of food crops, in The Wall Street Journal, March 29.

"In a very complicated world, we tried to take common sense and relate it to the food choices people must make every day."

--Cutberto Garza, professor of nutritional sciences, explaining his work as chair of the U.S. Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services committee on dietary guidelines, in U.S. News and World Report, Feb. 14.