Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"Small businesses can quickly change and take advantage of economic opportunities. That resonates with them because they're fast on their feet."
--David BenDaniel, professor of entrepreneurship, Johnson Graduate School of Management, discussing why young people find entrepreneurial small businesses an attractive career path, in an article on how recent college graduates are flooding the ranks of entrepreneurial business startups, in Small-Biz Growth, August 2002.
"There are two mechanisms. They either swim around supercooled or have a way to lower the freezing point of their fluids."
--Kurt Fristrup, assistant director of the Bioacoustics Research Program in the Lab of Ornithology, explaining how fish survive in the cold temperatures of the Arctic and Antarctic in "Science Q&A" in The New York Times, July 9.
"... I am convinced that some of the situations in which people are getting sick are linked to sewage sludge."
--Ellen Harrison, director of Cornell's Waste Management Institute, commenting on a National Academy of Sciences panel that advised that the EPA should more closely study guidelines for the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer, in a national Associated Press article, July 2. She was interviewed by CNN and the story was reported in the Sacramento Bee, the Orange County Register and in numerous newspapers and on radio stations nationwide.
"Speed is important to try to make this a preventive device rather than just a diagnostic one."
--Richard Durst, professor of food science and technology, describing a handheld sensor developed by Cornell scientists that can quickly detect deadly E. coli and other harmful germs in food and drinks, in an Associated Press wire story that appeared in, among other publications, the Sacramento Bee, Anchorage Daily News, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Miami Herald and on abcnews.com, July 1.
"Financial planners are going to need to take the initiative if they want to come to be recognized as a profession in the way that law and medicine are."
--Jonathan Macey, the J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, commenting on a report, which he authored for the Financial Planning Association, that examines whether current regulation of financial planners is adequate, in a news story by Dow Jones Newswires, June 3.
"These are people that are just so tied to their jobs they cannot conceive of doing something else, and they want to keep working."
--Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, describing faculty members who work beyond age 70 in an article about the "graying faculty," in The New York Times, June 19. He chairs the committee on retirement for the American Association of University Professors.
"Alcohol presents instant camaraderie and instant intimacy. There is very direct pressure to consume."
--Philip Meilman, director of counseling and psychological services at Gannett: University Health Services, discussing college drinking in MSNBC Investigates: Partying 101, which aired July 6.
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