Moreiras to lecture as Society for the Humanities invited fellow
Alberto Moreiras, professor of Romance studies at Duke University, will visit Cornell Nov. 1-7 for a series of lectures, as an invited fellow of the Society for the Humanities. (October 31, 2005)

Sustainability Day includes lecture on sustainable capitalism by John Ikerd
In the past half century, U.S. society has mutated into an impersonal, mechanistic and exploitive capitalist economy that "acts like a robot and functions like a cancer," poisoning our physical and mental well-being and exhausting the world's resources. So said keynote speaker John Ikerd, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia, speaking at the Campus Sustainability Day/Sustainability Summit, Oct. 26, on campus. (October 31, 2005)

Censor This! panel debates the limits of free speech on campus
At the panel discussion "Censor This!" on Oct. 24, eight panelists discussed the limits of free speech on campus after an article, "The Color of Crime," was published in the Cornell American, a free campus student-run conservative journal, saying blacks are more violent than whites. (October 31, 2005)

Guinness world record for Craighead
Harold Craighead, professor of applied and engineering physics, and research assistant Rob Ilic have their research featured in the 2006 edition of "The Guinness Book of World Records." (October 31, 2005)

Book details weapons -- from froth to venom -- of bugs
"Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and Other Many-Legged Creatures" by Cornell's Thomas and Maria Eisner and Emory University's Melody Siegler tells 69 stories about the defensive strategies of insects and other many-legged creatures. (October 31, 2005)

Ballet Flamenco Jose Porcel comes to Ithaca's State Theatre
Spain's Ballet Flamenco José Porcel will perform traditional flamenco and modern works set to live music Thursday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. at the State Theatre in Ithaca. The show is presented by the Cornell Concert Series. (October 31, 2005)

Judge Richard Wesley urges clerking after law school
Richard Wesley, J.D. '74, jurist-in-residence at Cornell Law School, was on campus Oct. 23 through 27 telling Cornell law students how rewarding the job of a law clerk can be. Wesley was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His nomination also was backed by state Democrats. (October 31, 2005)

Prehistoric life in the art of Charles R. Knight
The artist who gave the world its first glimpse of prehistoric life in 3-D and living color is the subject of a new special exhibition at the Museum of the Earth. "Conquering Darkness: The Art of Charles R. Knight," on display now through April 30, features more than 30 paintings and 10 sculptures by Knight. (October 31, 2005)

Human Ecology launches new Web site
The College of Human Ecology has launched a new Web site, integrated with the look of the university's front page and using technology that allows for dynamic, continuous update of the site's content. (October 31, 2005)

Duodenal switch may be more effective than gastric bypass, study finds
NEW YORK (October 14, 2005) -- The most frequently performed weight-loss surgery, the gastric bypass, may not be the most effective in producing weight loss, according to a preliminary study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Letter: Intelligent Design is testable and falsifiable
Seth Maxson of the IDEA Club at Cornell responds to President Hunter Rawlings' State of the University address, Oct. 21. (October 31, 2005)

Students might be allowed to apply to two CU colleges
The Cornell University Council has been reviewing several new initiatives, including the possibility that prospective freshmen will be able to apply to both a primary and an alternate college at Cornell, beginning in the fall of 2007. (October 27, 2005)

Endowed health care costs to increase for 2006
The 2006 premium rates for endowed health care and prescription drug co-pays have been approved, and staff and faculty can expect an Open Enrollment packet to arrive at their homes in early November describing these and other benefit plans. (October 26, 2005)

Famed Irish author Edna O'Brien to speak
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will visit Cornell to give a lecture on James Joyce on Thursday, Oct. 27, and participate in a colloquium on writing on Oct. 28. (October 26, 2005)

CU and N.Y.'s Ag and Markets keep eye on out for avian flu
If an outbreak of a virulent strain of avian flu, like the deadly H5N1 strain that has jumped from chickens to humans in Asia, were to strike among a North American poultry farm, Cornell veterinarian Ben Lucio believes the virus can be contained in the chicken population, and he is not overly worried about it spreading to humans. (October 26, 2005)

Johnson School recognized for supporting minority MBA students
Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management won the Brillante award from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs for its efforts to attract and support Hispanic students and was cited in a Wall Street Journal publication for its efforts to attract black MBAs. (October 26, 2005)

Johnson School raises most money for children's hospital
The Johnson Graduate School of Management took first place in the first annual MBA Charity Challenge, raising $6,070 in 10 days for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -- the largest childhood cancer research center in the world. (October 26, 2005)

Library, faculty collaborate to build digital collection
Cornell Library's Digital Consulting and Production Services unit (DCAPS) is one-stop service for the Cornell community, providing a complete array of cost-effective services that support the entire life cycle of digital information -- from creation to long-term access and archiving (October 26, 2005)

Library extends expertise through e-scholarship
Through DCAPS, the Cornell Library is extending its expertise in creating, managing and archiving digital content to support faculty in a wide range of e-scholarship initiatives. (October 26, 2005)

Singing out and reaching out to chronicle social ills
Chronicling social ills in the arts has an illustrious history in New York City and at Weill Cornell Medical College. The purpose of the Humanities and Medicine program is to broaden the context in which illness and suffering and the patient's story are understood -- largely through an appreciation of the arts and humanities. (October 26, 2005)

New raptor facility named for alumni Esther and Dan Bondareff
Injured and endangered raptors have a new place to roost at Cornell University: the Esther Schiff Bondareff '37 and Daniel N. Bondareff '35 Raptor Facility. The new home of the Cornell Raptor Program was dedicated Oct. 21. (October 25, 2005)

'Dr. Golem' explores the uncertainties of modern medicine
"Dr. Golem," a new book co-authored by Cornell University's Trevor Pinch, explores the complexities and conundrums of modern medicine, which is rooted in science but highly fallible; it discusses, for example, tonsillectomies, the placebo effect, bogus doctors, alternative medicine, AIDS' activists and CPR. (October 25, 2005)

Dean of Peking University to lecture on China-U.S. relations
Wang Jisi will lecture on "China's Rise vs. America's Supremacy: Conflict or Cooperation?" Friday, Oct. 28, on campus. (October 25, 2005)

University lecture to explore mushrooms as medicines
Mycologist Paul Stamets, founder and leader of Fungi Perfecti of Olympia, Wash., will give a lecture, "Mushrooms as Ecological Medicines for People and Planet," Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 4 p.m., in Statler Auditorium. He will talk about how mushrooms can help ecological recovery. (October 25, 2005)

Livestock management program links U.S.-Mexico scholars
Cornell University animal scientists are working with Mexican scholars to create a program that will eventually provide information to livestock farmers to raise the most productive and profitable animals they can with the resources they have, including plants that grow naturally on their land, in some of the poorest parts of Mexico. (October 25, 2005)

United Way campaign totals $67,077 at two-week mark
Cornell United Way pledges as of Oct. 18 totaled $67,077.37 -- 10.7 percent of the campaign's goal of $627,000. Some pledge card glitches may slow participation, but problems are being corrected. (October 25, 2005)

Chen Jian screens his Emmy Award-winning documentary Nov. 4
Cornell University Professor Chen Jian won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research for the film "Declassifed: Nixon in China." He will introduce a free screening of the film Nov. 4 on campus. (October 24, 2005)

Students help Kenya's poor launch sustainable enterprises
Last summer two Cornell University students and one alumna lived alongside locals in rural and urban communities in Kenya, engaging them to generate ideas for sustainable micro-enterprises that may lift them out of poverty. (October 24, 2005)

Johnson School is among top schools in social, environmental programs
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell placed ninth in a ranking that looked at how well the world's 600 full-time MBA programs integrate social and environmental knowledge in their courses and programs. The report, issued by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute, is the only global ranking of its kind. (October 24, 2005)

Best ways to prevent pollution of NYC's water
To determine the best management practices to reduce the impact of phosphorus in the Cannonsville watershed, two Cornell University professors have received a $1 million grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. (October 24, 2005)

CU entomologist to lead Pesticide Management Education Program
Harvey Reissig has been named director of the Pesticide Management Education Program and state pesticide coordinator for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (October 24, 2005)

Rawlings' State of the University address takes on intelligent design
In his Oct. 21 State of the University address at the annual Trustee/Council Weekend, Cornell University's Interim President Hunter Rawlings called on Cornell to address the cultural -- not scientific, he said -- issues of where the "intelligent design" controversy belongs, both in and out of the classroom. (October 21, 2005)

Former president of Botswana will speak Oct. 31
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, will visit campus Oct. 31 and give an evening address, free and open to the public. Masire's talk, at 6:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building conference hall, is titled "Development of Sustainable Leadership in Africa: The Botswana Example." (October 20, 2005)

Celebrating a life in music: Malcolm Bilson's 70th
The secret is out on Malcolm Bilson's surprise 70th birthday party, with friends, colleagues, students past and present, and lovers of early music joining him in celebration on Oct. 24 in Barnes Hall for an all-Beethoven concert followed by a party on the stage. (October 19, 2005)

Native American exhibit on view in Hirshland Gallery
Starting Friday, Oct. 21, visitors to the Carl A. Kroch Library's Hirshland Gallery will get to view "Vanished Worlds, Enduring People," a premier exhibit featuring materials from the recently acquired Cornell University Library Native American Collection. (October 19, 2005)

Cornell finds natural selection in humans
The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to a study by researchers from Cornell University, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics published in the Oct. 20 issue of the journal Nature. (October 19, 2005)

The search for a new Cornell president goes on
Presidential Search Committee members have broken into groups of three and are now interviewing prospects in the quest for Cornell University's next president. Among those members is Rosemary Avery, a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. (October 19, 2005)

Understanding avian flu virus may help fight it
Understanding how the avian flu virus enters and infects a cell may lead to new vaccines and antiviral drugs that will be critical if a virulent form of bird flu jumps to humans. (October 19, 2005)

Launching a 'revolutionary' new undergraduate major
With an intense focus on acculturation through language learning, its semester-long externships to Washington, D.C. and Beijing and its rigorous programming, the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program is unlike any major at Cornell or anywhere else. (October 19, 2005)

Alum helps create a new major in China and Asian Pacific studies
A gift from Michael Zak '75 helped launch Cornell's China and Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS) program, which enrolled its first students this fall. As an undergraduate Zak studied Mandarin and Asian culture in addition to his engineering courses. (October 19, 2005)

Lehman honored by Cornell faculty at farewell event
Jeff Lehman, who resigned June 30 as Cornell's 11th president in June, was honored, along with his wife, Kathy, by Cornell faculty at an Oct. 14 farewell ceremony. (October 19, 2005)

Cornell students take an inside look at the United Nations
A diverse group of 120 Cornell students visited UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 30, some of them international by citizenship, others by birth and yet others by academic interests. (October 19, 2005)

Plant wounds trigger bacteria
A common soil bacteria can 'smell' a wound on plants like roses and wine grapevines, which triggers the microbes to copy their DNA many times over and insert them into plant cells, causing tumors associated with crown gall disease, according to new research by a Cornell microbiologist Steve Winans. (October 19, 2005)

Cornell Council for the Arts announces annual awards
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the winners for three awards: 2005-06 Edward R. Murray Scholarship, Undergraduate Student Artist Award and Distinguished Alumni Award. (October 19, 2005)

Cornell holds cyber security awareness event Oct. 26
Cornell has designated Wednesday, Oct. 26, as Security Awareness Day, part of National Cyber Security Awareness month in October. Steve Schuster, director of information technology (IT) security, will speak to staff, faculty and students about how to best secure their computers and avoid computer security traps. (October 19, 2005)

Weill Cornell doctors treat Hurricane Katrina victims
Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) promptly reached out after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast. With flooding forcing the closing of hospitals, WCMC honored its commitment to supporting health care in areas in crisis by mounting a threefold response on behalf of Katrina victims: medical education, research and patient care. (October 19, 2005)

Japanese officials sign agreement with Cornell
Officials from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan's largest agricultural research institute, signed a memorandum of understanding Oct. 10 to foster research collaborations with Cornell University. (October 18, 2005)

Panelists look at real estate's rosy present and speculate on its future
"Real Estate Strategies in Times of Change," the 23rd Annual Cornell Real Estate Conference, Oct. 6-7 in the Statler Hotel ballroom, was an opportunity for real estate students and executives to learn about where real estate investment is headed. (October 18, 2005)

Fullers' gift will create learning center in life sciences building
Laurance and Nancy Fuller are issuing an implicit challenge to others to support Cornell. They have made a multimillion-dollar lead gift to the university to name the H. Laurance and Nancy L. Fuller Learning Center in the new Life Sciences Technology Building, now rising on Alumni Field, and provide endowment funds for the Lab of Ornithology's Evolutionary Biology Program and a graduate fellowship. (October 18, 2005)

Court Hall spaces named for Susan Murphy, Robert and Virginia Bauer
Two North Campus spaces have been renamed in honor of Vice President Susan Murphy and alumni Robert and Virginia Bauer. (October 18, 2005)

Conference looks at endangered languages around the world
Scholars discussed the confluence of culture and economy at the Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty Oct. 14-16. (October 18, 2005)

Lecturers agree: Don't restore New Orleans to how it was
Two Cornell Unviersity experts on climate and atmospheric sciences agree that restoring New Orleans to the way it was isn't worthwhile. The city would need to be built differently, they said at a public lecture in honor of Earth Science Week, Oct. 13. (October 18, 2005)

Cornell Trustee-Council Weekend is Oct. 20-22
Cornell University's Board of Trustees and the Cornell University Council will hold their annual meeting on the Ithaca campus, Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 20-22. A highlight of the meeting will be President Hunter Rawlings' State of the University address Friday, Oct. 21, beginning at 8:45 a.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall. (October 18, 2005)

Agroforestry Resource Center seeks to help woodlot owners reap income
The unique Cornell-affiliated Agroforestry Resource Center in the Hudson Valley teaches the region's forest owners how to reap extra cash from their land without necessarily having to cut trees down. (October 18, 2005)

Accelerated MBA program offered for med students
Medical science and business skill are often perceived as being as vastly different as Manhattan gridlock and Ithaca gorges. A new joint-degree, cross-campus program is set upon bridging these worlds by providing business education to graduate and medical students. (October 18, 2005)

Katie Couric salutes 'heroes' at Monahan Center
Katie Couric spoke at the Jay Monahan Center on Sept. 17 for the center's first annual review. She had collaborated with Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in founding the center, which opened on York Avenue in New York City a year ago, after her husband and sister died from cancers that are highly treatable if detected early. (October 18, 2005)

State awards $1 million Clean Energy Grant to hospital
New York state has awarded a $1 million grant to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to help fund the construction of a clean and efficient cogeneration plant and help lower the hospital's energy costs. (October 18, 2005)

Real stories from United Way agencies
Real lives. Real stories. Real change. The Cornell United Way campaign is not simply a feel-good exercise, although it does feel good to know you are helping to make a difference. (October 17, 2005)

'The Body Project,' inspired by Joan Brumberg's book, is now a play
This fall, "The Body Project," a full-scale production, inspired in part by Cornell University's Joan Jacobs Brumberg's book of the same title, explores women's dissatisfaction with their bodies. It will run Oct. 20 to Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2005)

Javits Award funds neurology of animal movement study
Ron Harris-Warrick, professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell, has been awarded the prestigious Sen. Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences, a seven-year research grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. (October 17, 2005)

Garden Mosaics DVD wins four international awards
Cornell University's Garden Mosaics Program, a science education and community action program promoting intergenerational and multicultural understanding, has earned multimedia awards from the INTERCOM International Communications Film and Video Competition, the Chris Awards and the Telly Awards. (October 17, 2005)

CALS launches online research portal
Quick! Who's doing research on the European corn borer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences? For those of you thinking "there really should be a Web site with that kind of information," you're in luck. A new information portal brings together the varied research activities of the college, as well as the people, facilities and events involved. (October 14, 2005)

Cornell's solar house takes second place in national competition
After a week of tense and intense judging in the 2005 Solar Decathlon solar-house design contest, the Cornell University team took second place to the University of Colorado in the final rankings. (October 14, 2005)

Search for ivory-billed woodpecker featured on '60 Minutes'
This spring's news of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long-believed extinct, stunned birders, scientists, conservationists and the general public around the world. The rediscovery efforts, led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy, continue to generate headlines. Now that story will be featured for a national television audience on CBS TV's "60 Minutes," Sunday, Oct. 16. (October 14, 2005)

Technique combines breast cancer and breast reduction surgeries
NEW YORK (October 12, 2005) -- A new surgical option for breast cancer patients combines removal of the cancerous tumor with breast reduction in one surgical procedure, called oncoplastic surgery, with benefits that include improved cosmetic outcome and reduced risk of complications.

Maddie's Fund gives $1.7 million for shelter medicine program
Maddie's Fund has awarded Cornell 's College of Veterinary Medicine a $1.7 million grant over six years to support a program in shelter medicine, to be called Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell. (October 12, 2005)

New book focuses on how to market better nutrition
Just because people know that a food is nutritious does not mean they will eat it. The new book, "Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity," by Cornell University's Brian Wansink discusses how food marketers, government officials, health professionals and parents can do better. (October 12, 2005)

Tickets are on sale for Whoopi Goldberg show, Oct. 28
Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg will perform at Cornell's Barton Hall Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., during Cornell's annual Family Weekend. Tickets are available online only. (October 12, 2005)

Avian flu hunters at Cornell search for the 'big one'
Virologists at Cornell University's Animal Health Diagnostic Center isolate hundreds of respiratory and intestinal tract samples each month from New York City's live bird markets in an effort to root out any types of avian influenza virus and prevent such a flu in humans. (October 12, 2005)

Cornell epidemiologist oversees monitoring of New York's live bird markets
Susan C. Trock, an epidemiologist at Cornell University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory who is assigned to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, oversees the monitoring of the 90 live bird markets in New York state for avian influenza. (October 12, 2005)

Melissa Hines named CCMR director; NSF renews center's funding
Melissa Hines, Cornell professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, just two days after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years. (October 12, 2005)

Students go around the world in 8 days with Shawkat Toorawa
Professor Shawkat Toorawa hosts a monthly discussion series, taking students on "trips" to places as far-flung as the Waqwaq Islands in the Indian Ocean, or to the Republic of Georgia, or as strangely familiar (for some) as Fire Island, N.Y. (October 12, 2005)

New information science major deals with computers and people
Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information. (October 12, 2005)

Service-learning is land grant's mission
Courses within the Faculty Fellows-in-Service (FFIS) program aim to combine the theory of service-learning with practical challenges of applying those theories. The courses also teach Cornell's students about the meaning of citizenry -- which is part of Cornell's land-grant mission. (October 12, 2005)

2005 Cornell United Way campaign kicks off
Cornell kicked off its United Way campaign Oct. 4. This year's goal is $627,000. (October 12, 2005)

Video archive documents history of Chinese avant-garde art movement
An archive of some 360 hours of digital video footage documenting the history of contemporary Chinese art since 1985 has found a home at Cornell University. The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art traces the transformation of Chinese culture in recent years, through previously unseen coverage of artists, art events, installations, performances, interviews and studio tours. (October 12, 2005)

Symposium, concerts to honor Malcolm Bilson
The Department of Music is celebrating music professor Bilson's 37-year career at Cornell in honor of his 70th birthday on Oct. 24. Among the events: a symposium, "Haydn and Beethoven: Piano Music and Piano Culture in the 1790s," and a series of free concerts in Barnes Hall. (October 11, 2005)

The post-Cold War globe is 'A World of Regions'
International relations scholar Peter Katzenstein advocates in his latest book a geopolitical view of the globe as a world of regions organized by American power. (October 11, 2005)

Student's invention gets classmates to their classes on time
The Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock, an invention by Adam Hocherman, an MBA student at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, promises to get students to class on time every day of the week. The unique clock was featured on CBS's Early Show and in the New York Times. (October 11, 2005)

Cornell hosts conference on endangered languages around the world
A three-day conference at Cornell, Oct. 14-16, will highlight the complex interconnections of language and poverty for a general audience, and promote exchange at both theoretical and practical levels among linguists and scholars working on endangered languages in impoverished communities. (October 10, 2005)

Cornell eliminated from DARPA Grand Challenge
Cornell's entry performed beautifully in the DARPA Grand Challenge, as far as it went, but was eliminated after only nine miles due to a software weakness, the team reported. (October 10, 2005)

Cornell's Solar Decathlon team is in fourth place after first round
With judging in two events finished, Cornell's Solar Decathlon house is in fourth place, only 25 points behind the leader. (October 10, 2005)

Fetal exposure to toxins could be behind rise in asthma
Most studies assessing health effects of environmental toxins like lead, mercury and dioxin as well as new drugs examine how these substances impact adult animals, while the real dangers may occur when developing immune systems of fetuses and newborns are exposed to toxins, according to Cornell University researcher Rod Dietert. (October 10, 2005)

Bethe lecturer to demonstrate atomic-scale microscopy
Donald M Eigler, a physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., presents the 2005 Hans Bethe lecture, "Life Among the Atoms: A Celebration of the Small Frontier," Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. and leads two colloquia on physics at the nanometer scale. (October 10, 2005)

Book 'Interest' traces intellectual history of the concept
In the new book called "Interest," Cornell University sociologist Richard Swedberg traces the intellectual history of the concept of interest and argues that how economists have used the concept is too narrow a view. (October 10, 2005)

Alice Pell named director of CIIFAD
Alice Pell, international professor of animal science, was named director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, effective July 1. (October 10, 2005)

Lecture by Chen Jian launches innovative undergrad major
The launch of the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program, Cornell's pioneering new undergraduate major, will be celebrated with a lecture by Chen Jian, the Michael J. Zak Chair of History for U.S.-China Relations. (October 7, 2005)

Having inaccurate self-insights has serious consequences
People consistently have inaccurate self-insights about their skills and talents, and these misperceptions can have serious consequences for health, education and work. Not being aware of our errors of omission is one reason why we're such poor judges about ourselves, says Cornell Professor David Dunning. (October 07, 2005)

Former Cornell Daily Sun editor Marc Zawel untangles the Ivy League
Marc Zawel, former managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, will return to his alma mater Thursday, Oct. 13, to talk about the national release of his first published work, "Untangling the Ivy League 2006," a project that began during his senior year at Cornell. (October 7, 2005)

Non-COX-2-specific NSAIDs cut oral cancer risk, double cardiovascular risk
NEW YORK (October 6, 2005) -- An analysis of 20 years of data on the health of over 900 adults has found that long-term use of traditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen, cuts the risk for oral cancer in smokers by half.However, use of these pain relievers (with the exception of aspirin) for 6 months or more also doubled users' risks for cardiovascular death, according to collaborative research published online Oct. 7 by The Lancet.

CU's Torres discusses avian flu and policy
This article is the first in a series looking at Cornell University's involvement with researching, creating policy and outreach regarding avian flu. This first entry discusses an overview of the disease and international policy with Alfonso Torres of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. (October 05, 2005)

Employment gap widens between people with and without disabilities
The results of the first Annual Disability Status Reports, released Oct. 5 by Cornell and the American Association of People with Disability, show that the gap widened between the percentage of working-age people with disabilities who are employed and the percentage of people without disabilities who have jobs. (October 5, 2005)

Q&A with Institute for the Social Sciences' David Harris
A conversation with sociology professor and vice provost David R. Harris, who has taken on significant leadership roles at Cornell since joining the faculty in 2003. (October 05, 2005)

Beta Mannix talks about bringing Cornell's social scientists together
Beta Mannix, director of the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) at Cornell University, hopes the institute will bring social scientists together on campus and attract more top-flight people to the university. (October 05, 2005)

Dan Lichter has plans to expand mission of Bronfenbrenner center
The director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center hopes to launch the center into a nationally known premium social sciences research center that sponsors groundbreaking work on human development and economic and family demography. (October 05, 2005)

'Wedding Crashers' crowns Ellen Dow's long career on stage, screen, TV
She's probably the shortest octogenarian actress in the business, but Cornell alumna Ellen Albertini Dow '35 has made a big impact on stage, screen and TV. She's in the summer hit "The Wedding Crashers" but is perhaps best known for her role as the "rappin' grandma" in the Adam Sandler film "The Wedding Singer." (October 05, 2005)

Jeff Morgan's global approach to preservation may boost tourism in Iraq
Preservationist Jeff Morgan '84 wants to make postwar Iraq as popular a destination for tourists visiting ancient sites as Peru's Machu Picchu -- which attracts 1,500 people a day and brings in millions of dollars in revenues. (October 05, 2005)

Weill Cornell lends hands-on help to hurricane victims
A team of 11 physicians, paramedics and emergency medical technicians from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Emergency Medicine Department traveled to Biloxi, Miss., to provide needed primary care to victims of Hurricane Katrina. (October 5, 2005)

Krafft gives presentation on National Science Digital Library
Dean Krafft, director of information technology for the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, spent Sept. 7 in Washington, D.C., explaining Cornell's contribution to the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) to a select group of legislators. (October 04, 2005)

Tammo Steenhuis receives 2005 Henry Darcy Medal
Tammo Steenhuis, professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2005 Henry Darcy Medal from the European Geophysical Society. (October 04, 2005)

Agricultural economists to hold 75th anniversary colloquium
Cornell will host the International Association of Agricultural Economists' 75th anniversary colloquium, to be held Oct. 7-9. (October 04, 2005)

Marc Redfield kicks off conference on "Unconfinable Romanticism"
Gottschalk lecturer to discuss Romantic-era roots of our modern 'war on terror' Oct. 13. (October 04, 2005)

Panelist discuss sustainable development in Southeastern Anatolia
Three speakers addressed sustainability issues in Turkey during a forum titled "Development Issues in Southeastern Anatolia, Including GAP (the Southeastern Anatolia Project)," Sept. 30. (October 04, 2005)

Cornell Library develops online preservation tutorial in Arabic
Cornell University Library's Department of Preservation and Collections Maintenance has developed an online tutorial to guide librarians in the Middle East in the preservation of books and manuscripts. (October 04, 2005)

Themes emerge in Korn/Ferry summary of presidential search
As Cornell University Presidential Search Committee members continue to seek input from various groups and individuals, several themes have emerged pertaining to the search itself and the characteristics the Cornell community would like to see in the university's next president. (October 03, 2005)

Cornell United Way campaign's official kickoff is Oct. 6
The annual Cornell United Way campaign prepares to kick off on campus with a new goal of $627,000. (October 03, 2005)