Don Ohadike, prominent scholar of West African history, dies at age 63
Don Ohadike, the prominent Cornell scholar of West African history and former director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, died Sunday, Aug. 28. (August 31, 2005)

Chinua Achebe will give a reading Sept. 15 at Cornell
Chinua Achebe, author of "Things Fall Apart," will read from his novel and from his poetry Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. Free tickets will be available starting Sept. 6. (August 31, 2005)

Committee to examine balance between sustainability, parking
Cornell Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings and Dean of the Faculty Charles Walcott addressed the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Environmental Sustainability and Transportation and Parking Needs, Aug. 31, and gave the committee its charge. (August 31, 2005)

New crane flies in N.Y. threaten lawns, golf courses, pastures
Cornell University experts have confirmed that two new species of crane flies (Tipula paludosa and a close relative T. oleracea) have invaded New York state for the first time and are likely to emerge as two of the most serious insect pests, threatening lawns, golf courses, pastures and hay fields. (August 31, 2005)

Summer heat produces insect pests
Heat and dryness from this past summer created a bumper crop of insect pests. Information on controlling the insects is available from Cornell Cooperative Extension offices. (August 31, 2005)

Cornell ranked 4th overall, first in engineering physics
Cornell University has been ranked fourth in the nation in the Washington Monthly College Guide, and No. 1 in engineering physics by U.S. News and World Report. (August 31, 2005)

New staff family-leave options benefit parents and caregivers
A new family leave for staff policy becomes effective today, Sept. 1. This new policy is intended to grant benefits-eligible staff members time off to care for their newborn, newly adopted or foster-care children and for seriously ill family members. (August 31, 2005)

New Chronicle column highlights Cornell's land-grant mission
A new monthly column in the Cornell Chronicle will feature interesting real-world examples of how Cornell University serves the state. These stories will be about real people in New York state and how Cornell has touched their lives in meaningful ways. (August 31, 2005)

New book explores economic sociology of capitalism
Cornell University sociologists Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg have co-edited a new book, "The Economic Sociology of Capitalism" (Princeton University Press 2005). The book explores capitalism from a social science perspective. (August 31, 2005)

Cornell named a 'best employer' for workers age 50 and older
Each year, the American Association of Retired Persons honors 50 employers in the United States for their practices and policies for mature workers with its "AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50" list. Cornell is ranked No. 5 this year, and it is the only college or university to be named from New York state. (August 31, 2005)

Off-campus safety to be reviewed at council meeting Sept. 8
The safety, rights and privacy of Cornell University-area students living off campus will be the major topic of discussion Sept. 8 at the Collegetown Neighborhood Council (CNC) meeting. (August 31, 2005)

People with disabilities are forced into a "poverty trap"
A new policy paper, "Dismantling the Poverty Trap: Disability Policy for the 21st Century," by Cornell University experts spells out how current policies force those with disabilities into poverty, whether they work or not, and offers reform recommendations. (August 31, 2005)

October concerts, symposium to celebrate Malcolm Bilson
Music professor and internationally famed pianist Malcolm Bilson's life and career will be celebrated in October, with a festival of early piano music concerts, a banquet and an international symposium including a panel discussion devoted to his work. (August 30, 2005)

Film inspires Cornell symposium on social, clinical family issues
A former Cornell graduate student's documentary film of an impoverished Brooklyn family is the catalyst for a symposium addressing societal, legal, cultural and clinical issues affecting millions of Americans daily. Jennifer Dworkin's "Love and Diane" will be shown Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The symposium will be Sept. 9 at the new Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road. (August 30, 2005)

Official Class of 2009 photo is a picture-perfect event
The ingredients: several dozen yards of yellow "caution" tape, 800 first-year students and a bullhorn. The result: the official photo for the Class of 2009, with students spelling out the year "2009" across Libe Slope. (August 30, 2005)

Computer program learns language rules and composes sentences
Shimon Edelman of Cornell University and colleagues have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text, infer the grammar behind it and generate new sentences. It works for different languages, music and protein sequences and is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS: Vol. 102:33, 2005). (August 30, 2005)

Tsinghua University president visits Cornell
Gu Binglin, president of Tsinghua University in Beijing, spoke at Cornell's Biotech building Aug. 26 about the state of higher education in China. (August 30, 2005)

CU Press publishes insights by 'undercover professor'
Anthropology professor Rebekah Nathan enrolled as a freshman at her own university, immersing herself in student life. The resulting book, "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student," has just been released by Cornell University Press. (August 30, 2005)

Survey discovers potential threat to Maine's fishing
Robin Hadlock Seeley, a Cornell University marine biologist, spearheaded an invasive species survey of Cobscook Bay, Maine, that has discovered a sea squirt there that could potentially threaten the important fishing area. (August 30, 2005)

International potato expert Nell Mondy dies at age 83
Nell I. Mondy, 83, professor emerita of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, died Aug. 25 at Cayuga Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at the First Baptist Church in Ithaca. (August 30, 2005)

Hurricane Katrina's wrath to reach the Empire State
Hurricane Katrina promises to bring winds -- and rains -- of change to much of New York State early this week. The storm should help convert one of central New York's driest months on record into one with more typical precipitation stats, according to Mark Wysocki, a state climatologist at the Northeast regional Climate Center at Cornell. (August 29, 2005)

Cornell program names top New York milk
Stewart's Processing Company of Saratoga Springs has been named New York's top milk for 2005, according to Cornell University's New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program. (August 29, 2005)

Wingbeat analysis supports ivory-bill identification
New analysis of a video containing 11 wing beats of a retreating black-and-white-winged bird offers new evidence that it is an ivorybilled woodpecker. (American Ornithological Union Meeting) (August 26, 2005)

Video analysis adds evidence for ivory-billed woodpecker
Skeptics have claimed that video evidence of an ivory-billed woodpecker is really a pileated woodpecker, but Cornell University researchers offered a frame-by-frame analysis of a video showing why they stand by their claim. (American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Santa Barbara, Calif.) (August 25, 2005)

Susanne Bruyère is named associate dean for outreach at the ILR School
Susanne Bruyère, director of the Employment and Disability Institute in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations extension division, has been named associate dean for outreach at the ILR School. She continues in both positions. (August 25, 2005)

Open house for prospective Agriculture and ILR students Oct. 15
Cornell University will host an open house on Saturday, Oct. 15 on campus for prospective freshman students at two of its New York state contract colleges -- the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR.) (August 25, 2005)

Evidence of ivory-bill existence mounts with audio
A Cornell University researcher presented new recordings of what sounded like at least one ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) at the American Ornithologist's Union on August 24, 2005. (August 25, 2005)

Society for the Humanities explores 'Culture and Conflict'
Cornell University's Society for the Humanities will focus on "Culture and Conflict" during 2005-06, with visiting and Cornell faculty offering seminars directly related to the theme. (August 25, 2005)

Open meetings on presidential search
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee, which has been charged with conducting a search for the university's next president, will hold open meetings in the coming days to receive input from the campus community. (August 25, 2005)

Cornell researchers correlate dopant atoms, electronic disorder in superconductors
A new imaging technique and strategy allows researchers to study how dopant atoms affect electronic disorder in superconductors. The work, led by Cornell's J.C. Séamus Davis, is published in the Aug. 12 issue of Science. (August 25, 2005)

Workforce planning pays off for the university
Launched in 2001, the estimated recurring annual financial savings identified through the workforce planning efforts exceed $15 million. (August 24, 2005)

Norm Scott and sustainable agriculture
Norm Scott, professor of biological and environmental engineering and former vice president for research and advanced studies at Cornell University, discusses fuel cells on farms, recycled vegetable oil for vehicles and industrial ecological systems in China. (August 24, 2005)

Cornell Cooperative Extension invades Governors Island
Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City, in partnership with other New York City-area educational and waterfront organizations, is planning to create Harbor 360, a public education and visitor attraction, on Governors Island National Monument. (August 24, 2005)

CU Police educates motorists on dangers of running red lights
Cornell University Police will adopt a "zero tolerance" policy toward traffic infractions during National Stop on Red Week, Aug. 27 through Sept. 2, 2005. (August 24, 2005)

New ivory-billed woodpecker recordings released
After analyzing more than 18,000 hours of recordings from the swampy forests of eastern Arkansas, researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology have released recordings offering further evidence for the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker. (August 24, 2005)

Robert Toll named 2005 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year
Robert I. Toll '63, chairman and chief executive officer of Toll Brothers Inc., has been named Cornell's 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year and will be honored on campus Wednesday, Nov. 2. (August 23, 2005)

Steve Squyres writes the book on the Mars rover mission
Steve Squyres, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has written a book about the Mars Exploration Rover mission that takes an inside look at how the mission came together. (August 23, 2005)

Moving-in day runs smoothly at Cornell
Friday, Aug. 19, was move-in day for many of the almost 6,400 incoming undergraduates newly landed at Cornell University. Many were freshmen, their parents in tow and loaded down with boxes, clothes baskets and little touches of home, from potted cacti to framed photos. (August 23, 2005)

Students and faculty gather to discuss "Things Fall Apart"
On Aug. 21, students and faculty members gathered in Barton Hall on campus to discuss Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," the subject of Cornell's New Student Reading Project. (August 23, 2005)

Cornell scholar works to boost women in Iraq
Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow in Cornell University's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been providing commentary on the draft Iraqi constitution, including a scriptural rationale for changes to improve the status of women under the new government. (August 23, 2005)

Robert Moog dies at 71
Robert Moog, Cornell University Ph.D. '64, whose name became synonymous with many forms of the music synthesizer he originally invented and manufactured in a Trumansburg, N.Y., storefront from 1964 to 1971, died Aug. 21. He was 71. (August 23, 2005)

McMurtry resigns as VP for government and community relations
Cornell University Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III has accepted the resignation of Vanda B. McMurtry as vice president for government and community relations, effective Sept. 30. McMurtry has accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania. (August 22, 2005)

Beetle-inspired switch uses water for bonding
A new switch designed by Cornell engineers uses water droplets to create very strong adhesive bonds that can flicked on and off in an instant. The switch was inspired by a mechanism found in palm beetles and is described in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (Vol. 102 (34) 11974-11979, 2005). (August 22, 2005)

Cornell licenses hydroponics greenhouse to Challenge Industries
Cornell has licensed operation of its hydroponics greenhouse -- which produces herbs and 6,000 heads of lettuce weekly -- to Challenge Industries, providing steady jobs to more than a dozen people who otherwise face barriers to employment. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is Sept. 1. (August 22, 2005)

Mutual funds excel when managers have skin in the game
A study by a finance expert David Weinbaum at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and three colleagues shows that mutual funds do better when the fund manager has "skin in the game" -- and gains financially when the fund prospers. The finding could lead to the SEC revising proposed governance rules. (August 22, 2005)

Now you're cooking -- with sun: solar ovens in Africa
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell University, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer, including Cyprienne Crowley who worked on solar ovens in Senegal. Others include Roslyn Odum in Honduras and Brett Gleitsmann in India. (August 22, 2005)

Daughters of cohabiting moms tend to cohabit, too
Young adult women whose mothers cohabit are 57 percent more likely than other women to report cohabitation themselves, according to a study by Cornell's Dan Lichter and Ohio State University colleagues. The findings were presented at the American Sociological Association meeting Aug. 16. (August 22, 2005)

Report urges U.S. to open doors to international students
A report by a Cornell immigration policy expert, a researcher with the Migration Policy Institute and the institute's president states that visa, travel and border inspections need to be made easier for legitimate foreign visitors, while still keeping the United States safe. (August 19, 2005)

Union women from around the world meet to learn at Cornell
The 30th Annual Northeast Regional Summer School for Union Women took place on Cornell University's campus Aug. 7-12, in association with the United Association of Labor Education (UALE) and Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. (August 19, 2005)

Professors advocate new laws for new wars
A new book looks at changing wars, aging laws and the need for new laws that govern warfare. It was written by a Cornell University professor of law who worked at the National Security Council and by a professor of government who heads the Peace Studies program at Cornell. (August 19, 2005)

Peru's first female prime minister to lecture on campus
The first woman prime minister in Latin America, Beatriz Merino, will speak at Cornell University on "Leadership in the 21st Century for Latin America," Sept. 1 at 4:45 p.m. in B45 Warren Hall. (August 18, 2005)

Book "Asbestos and Fire" explores risk trade-offs
Asbestos has saved thousands of lives in the short run, but in the long run it has serious health risks. As a result, asbestos has triggered billions of dollars in litigation costs, says Rachel Maines, Cornell University visiting scholar, in a new book, "Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk." (August 18, 2005)

Redesigned Cornell Chronicle debuts Aug. 18
The Cornell Chronicle launches a redesign beginning with the Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005 issue. (August 17, 2005)

Coming full circle with President Hunter Rawlings
Two years after he stepped down as Cornell's president, Hunter Rawlings is back. In those two years, numerous projects launched under his previous watch have come to fruition. (August 17, 2005)

Graeme Bailey reaches digital understanding via hockey, judo and the cello
Faculty facet: If you look up "peripatetic" in the dictionary, you should find a description of Graeme Bailey. Although the word properly refers to walking, Bailey also skis, skates, motorcycles and otherwise meanders between music, sports and his official job as a professor of computer science, with each area inspiring and motivating the others. (August 17, 2005)

Aspiring astronomers learn to use Arecibo telescope
Students from around the world learn to use the Arecibo telescope at the weeklong Single Dish Summer School. (August 17, 2005)

Arecibo scientists reach out to the Puerto Rican community
Programs at Arecibo Observatory focus on improving science education in Puerto Rico. (August 17, 2005)

Dean of Students Kent Hubbell moonlights as fabric architect
Kent Hubbell, Cornell University dean of students, moonlights as an architectural designer of such Fiberglas fabric structures as the one sheltering the Chene Park Performing Arts Complex on the waterfront in Detroit and a structure to prevent golf balls from hitting cars and people at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on the southern coast of Oregon. (August 17, 2005)

Einaudi Center launches International Gateway
In production since 2003, the Einaudi Center has launched the International Gateway, offering a single point of access online to Cornell's international programs and the international research, teaching and outreach work of its faculty and students. (August 17, 2005)

Gift helps Komansky Center for Children's Health
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's newly named Komansky Center for Children's Health, which was celebrated with an opening-night reception July 27, 2005, is designed to meet the special needs of children and families. The center was named for David Komansky, chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch and Co., and his wife, Phyllis. (August 17, 2005)

'Good' bacteria could counter overuse of antibiotics
Antibiotics are everywhere -- from the dry cleaners to your soap dispenser -- killing off the bacteria that threaten to make you sick. But a sterile, antiseptic world might do more harm than good, and the onslaught of antibiotics might undermine their very purpose. Bacteria's blanket reputation for evil often eclipses their power for good. (August 17, 2005)

Yoga: Therapy for Parkinson's disease?
The Sanskrit word "yoga" shares its roots with "yoke," as in the alignment of mind and body. Ongoing research at Weill Cornell Medical College is revealing the extent of yoga's capacity to fight an insidious neurodegenerative disease. (August 17, 2005)

Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America
Cornell researchers Josh Donlan and Harry Greene and their colleagues propose a plan to restore large wild animals -- including cheetahs, lions, elephants and camels -- to the North American Great Plains. While their theory has strong ecological underpinnings, the researchers know social attitudes will pose the biggest obstacles. (August 12, 2005)

They're HEEEERE! Roll out the Big Red carpet
New Student Orientation Committee and Welcome Weekend groups roll out the Big Red carpet Aug. 19-24 with a festivity of activities. (August 17, 2005)

Conservationist and educator Richard B. Fischer dies at 86
Richard B. Fischer, a Cornell professor emeritus of environmental education who instilled in students a deep appreciation for the natural world during 32 years of teaching and then continued to lead Cornell Adult University tours after his retirement in 1985, died at his Ithaca home Aug. 7. He was 86. (August 17, 2005)

Babies detect unfamiliar music rhythms easier than adults
Babies can recognize unfamiliar musical rhythms far more readily than adults, report Cornell University and University of Toronto researchers Erin Hannon and Sandra Trehub in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition (Aug. 15-19, 2005). (August 15, 2005)

After overeating, we don't compensate by eating less
After overeating by 35 percent for two weeks, a study's participants did not eat less afterwards, according to a new Cornell University study in Physiology and Behavior by David Levitsky and colleagues, suggesting that food intake is more strongly influenced by external, rather than internal, cues. (August 15, 2005)

Cornell students mix fun, friends and community service
For the 10th consecutive year, incoming Cornell freshmen and transfer students will perform community service in Ithaca through the Cornell Public Service Center's Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) program, Aug. 14-19. (August 12, 2005)

'Things Fall Apart' at Cornell Aug. 21
On Sunday, Aug. 21, at 3:30 p.m., more than 3,500 first-year and transfer students are scheduled to gather in Barton Hall for an interactive faculty presentation on Chinua Achebe's masterpiece "Things Fall Apart." (August 12, 2005)

Becker House offers students intellectual and social balance
Carl L. Becker House, the second of five "living and learning" houses in Cornell's West Campus Residential Initiative, is opening a year ahead of schedule, Aug. 19. (August 12, 2005)

Cornell leads N.Y. universities in R and D spending
Cornell University led all schools in New York state in research and development expenditures in 2003, according to a recent National Science Foundation report. At the same time, the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research announced that New York's colleges and universities set a record for money spent on research and development in that same year. (August 11, 2005)

More proof of woodpecker revealed in audio recordings
Cornell researchers will formally present new audio evidence of ivory-billed woodpeckers Aug. 24 at the 123rd American Ornithologists Union meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif. (August 11, 2005)

Drought declared for Finger Lakes region
The upstate New York cities of Ithaca, Binghamton and Buffalo as well as northern central Pennsylvania have been declared a moderate-drought area, according to Keith Eggleston, a climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. (August 11, 2005)

Powerhouse speakers address issue of socio-economic diversity
Achieving genuine diversity -- both of race and class -- remains one of the major challenges in the field of higher education in the 21st century. That challenge was addressed from a variety of perspectives during a powerhouse symposium in July that featured five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar. (August 11, 2005)

Future of Minority Studies: United by diversity
Cornell University's FMS summer fellows build 'tram lines across the globe' following a two-week seminar, "Feminist Identities, Global Struggles," and four symposia focused on diversity of gender, income, ethnicity and disability, July 25-Aug. 5. (August 11, 2005)

Three students named Heinz Environmental Scholars
Three Cornell University graduate students are among 16 students at U.S. universities to receive grants as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. They are Katherine Mills, Dora Sugar and Elena Bondareva. (August 10, 2005)

Want to design bridges? Better mind your manners
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice. A crew from CBS Evening News covered the event for a show in the near future. (August 10, 2005)

Tolani Professorship to strengthen Cornell's ties to India
The Tolani Shipping Co. has established the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy at Cornell. The professorship honors alumnus Nandlal P. Tolani. (August 09, 2005)

Francille Firebaugh retires as vice provost for land grant affairs
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, has retired after more than five years as vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president, as of June 30, 2005. (August 05, 2005)

Cornell Urban Scholars Program: Doing well while doing good
Twenty-six undergraduate and 10 graduate Cornell Urban Scholars Program students took part in an eight-week paid internship this summer at 32 organizations, among them some of the city's most innovative nonprofits. They presented on their experiences July 27 in New York City Council chambers. (August 05, 2005)

Presidential Search Committee names consulting firm
The national executive search firm of Korn/Ferry International has been chosen to assist in the process of identifying and recruiting the strongest possible candidates for the next president of Cornell University, Diana Daniels, chair of the university's Presidential Search Committee, announced Aug. 5. (August 5, 2005)

Ronald Seeber is appointed vice provost for land grant affairs
Ronald Seeber, Cornell University professor and associate dean in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and co-director of the ILR School's Institute on Conflict Resolution, has been named to the position of Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs, Provost Biddy Martin has announced. The half-time position, which Seeber will combine with his current duties, becomes effective Aug. 15, 2005, and will extend through June 30, 2010. (August 4, 2005)

Hypnotic suggestion can reduce conflict in human brain, Weill Cornell researchers report
NEW YORK (August 1, 2005) -- A new study using an old, misunderstood technique -- hypnotic suggestion -- finds the brain can override responses experts have long assumed to be ingrained and automatic, such as reading.The study's publication in the July 12 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is remarkable for two reasons: first, it provides compelling evidence that humans can "unlearn" an automatic process, and, second, it points to hypnotic suggestion as a powerful new tool for brain research, generally.

Jury is out on worth of disease management programs
Disease management programs pay off for congestive heart failure and multiple diseases but not necessarily for asthma, diabetes and depression, says Ron Goetzel of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at Cornell University in Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2005). (August 4, 2005)

Mothers face disadvantages in getting hired, study shows
Mothers looking for employment face disadvantages -- including being less likely to be hired, being offered lower salaries and facing a perception that they would be less committed to a job -- than fathers or women without children, according to an experiment conducted by researchers at Cornell. (August 4, 2005)

Weill Cornell team identifies molecule important to brain cell development
NEW YORK (July 25, 2005) -- A molecule first identified by Weill Medical College of Cornell University scientists as useful in intra-cellular transport mechanisms appears to have another trick up its sleeve.The same research team now finds that Tctex-1 may help direct the growth and development of brain cells, too.

Men overcompensate when masculinity is threatened
Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher. (August 02, 2005)

X-ray technology sheds light on ancient stone inscriptions
In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000-year-old inscriptions using X-ray fluorescence imaging. The research, carried out at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, applies a nondestructive chemical analysis technique widely used in geology, archaeology and materials science. (August 02, 2005)

As Northeast temps rise, records fall: Six upstate cities set new marks
For the Northeast, it has been hotter than ever. The upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, Utica and Binghamton have had their hottest June and July ever officially recorded, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. (August 01, 2005)

Researcher uncovers details of how cancer spreads
A study by Cornell professor Jun-Lin Guan, published in the August 2005 issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals how connective tissue holding a cancer cell in place might degrade, unmooring the diseased cell and allowing it to spread to other parts of the body. (August 01, 2005)

Impressing Dr. J: Middle and high school students conclude month of science, exploration on the Cornell campus
Dr. J was a hemisphere away and could not see the July 27 culmination of her students' four weeks of work in person. But from somewhere in China, thanks to modern technology, Dr. J was watching. And that made the young presenters very nervous. (August 01, 2005)

Students use summer internships to test desire to become plant researchers
Early this summer, 17 undergraduates descended on the Cornell campus from colleges across the nation. Their mission: to learn more about plants and whether plant science is for them. They did so by enrolling in summer internships through the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), which encompasses 30 labs at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Cornell, and the United States Department of Agriculture Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory. (August 1, 2005)