Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"My sense of it is that I go around with a kind of an unfortunate load of anxiety, sometimes at a heightened level and others not. And I see something, and I think this is the way it goes in nature: a ditch or a stone or the bark falling off a stump or a bird washing itself in a brook or something like that....I have the sense that I gain some release by finding an external embodiment of something inside. That feels better -- one achieves some release from anxiety. Especially, of course, when you get back home from the walk and write the damn thing down."
-- A.R. Ammons, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, profiled in the September-October issue of Audubon.
"Intellectuals are people, too. We need excitement just like everybody else. We need good stories to hook our interest and tie our tables to."
-- Bruce Lewenstein, associate professor of communication and of science and technology studies, on Cornell's O.J. Simpson murder trial archive, in The New York Times, Sept. 25.
"Everything you see made of plastic could be made of spiders' silk. My dream is to take the genes from the spider and inject them into plants to make them create the silk."
-- Lynn Jelinski, director of the Biotechnology Program, in the Ottawa (Ontario) Citizen, Sept. 12.
"Seeing the credit card logo reminds people that their spending power exceeds the cash available in their pocket. It may enhance people's perception of their own buying power, so they're more willing to spend all the money they've got."
-- Michael Lynn, associate professor of consumer behavior and marketing in the School of Hotel Administration, in the Sept. 21 Washington Post.
"Carbohydrates are a very important part of colored compounds and carbohydrates are a very important part of photosynthesis. When there is a lot of rain, trees can make a lot of carbohydrates, so this should be a very good year for fall foliage."
-- Jay Jacobson, plant physiologist, Boyce Thompson Institute, in the Sept. 11 Albany Times-Union, in an article on fall foliage prospects.