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:

"Our ultimate goal will be to provide winemakers with more tools to help them control and optimize brett aroma in their wine production. You can still find brett in some of the best French Bordeaux and domestic cabernet sauvignons. Many people, winemakers and consumers alike, think a little brett is a great thing."

–Jonathan Licker, a graduate student in food science, talking about research he is doing with Terry Acree, professor of biochemistry, and Thomas Henick-Kling, associate professor of enology and microbiology, on the wild yeast called brett that produces an often-pungent aroma in wine, in ScienceDaily, an online science news magazine, March 20.

"The rate of incremental growth is not as much as those of us in favor of this had hoped for. To some extent we all got caught up with the enthusiasm of the early and mid-1980s."

–Harry Katz, the J. Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, commenting on the formation of Japanese-style management-labor agreements in the United States, as workers at the American Saturn plant vote this week whether to continue the current arrangement or return to the United Auto Workers' boilerplate national contract agreement with General Motors, in The Washington Post, March 8.

"Everyone is getting smarter in some way, and a lot smarter. We're living in a golden age. Look at all the technological advances, at a rate that it's impossible to grasp, even. We couldn't have done this with the intellectual skills people had in the 19th century."

–Ulrich Neisser, professor of psychology, discussing the rise in IQ scores around the world in The New York Times, Feb. 24.