Congressional interest

Left: The American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) presented New York Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (26th Dist.) with the ADEC 2001 Meritorious Service Award last year in Washington, D.C., for his support of the consortium. ADEC is a national grants program to develop an agricultural communications network using leading-edge technologies, and it supports such innovative initiatives as Cornell's Global Seminar 480 course. From left in Hinchey's Washington office are Dean Sutphin, associate dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Hinchey; Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and Tom Fretz, chair of the ADEC board of directors. Right: New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, right, toured Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., Jan. 8 to learn how research expertise at the station relates to agriculture, food and biotechnology that might attract prospective tenants to Cornell's Agriculture and Food Technology Park. In one of several stops, Cornell plant pathologist Herb Aldwinckle (left) explains to Schumer the process of gene transfer in developing disease-resistant apples. Photos by Cornell University (left) and Fred Hickey/NYSAES/Cornell