State senator's visit

New York State Sen. Malcolm A. Smith (D-10th Dist.) from Queens, second from left, visited the Biotechnology Program at Cornell June 16 and met with administrators and researchers in the Biotechnology Building. Receiving a briefing from food science faculty members Kathryn Boor and Carl Batt, co-director of the Nanobiotechnology Center, are from left, Edward Harper, Smith's legislative aide; Smith; and Jannette Rondo and Robert Hokanson, legislative analysts on the Senate Minority Program staff. Robert Barker/University Photography