Cornell apparel historian Elsie Frost McMurry dies at age 99
Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita of textiles and apparel -- an apparel historian, scholar, designer, dressmaker and former curator of the Cornell Costume Collection -- died July 25 at age 99 in Michigan. (July 31, 2007)

Resource economist Duane Chapman dies at age 66
Professor emeritus Duane Chapman died at his home in Newfield, N.Y., July 29, after a brief illness. He was an expert in energy use, world oil prices and security, renewable energy costs and policy, and climate change. (July 31, 2007)

Martian dust storm threatens rovers' survival
A large-scale dust storm on Mars is preventing light from reaching the two rovers, and if the skies continue to darken, Spirit and Opportunity could run out of power, say Cornell professors Jim Bell and Steve Squyres. (July 26, 2007)

Skorton testifies on globalization before U.S. House committee
Cornell President David Skorton called international education and research among the nation's most effective diplomatic assets, during testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, July 26. (July 26, 2007)

Engineering grad raises funds for charity by climbing Kilimanjaro
Alumnus Seth Cochran climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in June to raise money for The Smile Train, a charity that provides cleft palate and lip surgeries to children in underdeveloped countries. (July 26, 2007)

Composting program expands at GrassRoots festival
Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers collected more than 5 tons of compostable materials as part of an expanded composting program at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance. (July 26, 2007)

Sergio Servetto, 39, dies in plane crash
Sergio Servetto, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, died July 24 in a private plane accident. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the accident. (July 25, 2007)

Floriculture Field Day draws record crowd
About 175 people, more than ever before, attended Cornell's Floriculture Field Day July 24 to hear about new plants on the market and learn about the younger generation of plant retailers. (July 25, 2007)

Stallmann named director of environmental health and safety
Christine M. Stallmann, who currently serves as manager of global environmental health and safety and facilities services for Alcoa Inc., will begin her new post at Cornell in mid-August. (July 25, 2007)

Nutritional supplement cuts anemia in poor children by half
When the nutritional supplement Sprinkles was added to food for two months, anemia rates among children were reduced dramatically, says a Cornell study published in the Journal of Nutrition. (July 25, 2007)

Chinese educators get overview of U.S. educational system
Fifteen Chinese high school principals and university administrators received an overview of trends in U.S. education during a program tailored especially for them, July 15-22 on campus. (July 25, 2007)

Weed warrior wins IPM award for reducing herbicide risk
Russell Hahn, professor of weed science at Cornell, has received an 'Excellence in IPM Award' from the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. (July 25, 2007)

CU researchers discover fruit fly gene from 'out of nowhere'
Scientists thought that most new genes were formed from existing genes, but Cornell researchers have discovered a gene in some fruit flies that appears to be unrelated to other genes in any known genome. (July 23, 2007)

Exposure to smoking-cessation product ads helps smokers quit
The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful -- even without buying the products, finds a Cornell study. (July 23, 2007)

Brenda Wickes will work to enhance campus life for grad students
Cornell's Graduate School has named Brenda Wickes '85 assistant dean for graduate student life, a new position created to oversee all aspects of graduate student life and help build a stronger graduate community. (July 20, 2007)

Graduate Community Initiative seeks integrated approach
The Graduate Community Initiative is a vision statement and proposal to build community and address critical concerns among Cornell's graduate and professional students. (July 20, 2007)

M.H. Abrams named honorary co-captain of Big Red football team
In celebration of M.H. 'Mike' Abrams' 95th birthday, the football team thanked its biggest fan by making him honorary co-captain this year for the Oct. 6 home game against Harvard -- Abrams' alma mater. (July 20, 2007)

Record number of international students enroll in Summer College
High school students from across the country and around the world are experiencing university life this summer at Cornell while exploring possible majors and earning credits. (July 20, 2007)

Four faculty members named Schurman professors
Andrew Clark, Steven Strogatz, Eva Tardos and William Thurston have been named Jacob Gould Schurman Professors, one of the most prestigious chairs at the university. (July 20, 2007)

N.C. Wyeth's coloring technique revealed by Cornell's synchrotron
When a simple X-ray revealed an illustration beneath the oil paint of N.C. Wyeth's 'Family Portrait,' a team of Cornell scientists and art conservators had found their next work of art to analyze. (July 19, 2007)

Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
Honeybee queens tend to be promiscuous to produce genetically diverse colonies, report two Cornell researchers in the July 20 issue of Science. Such colonies are far more productive and hardy than genetically uniform colonies produced by monogamous queens, they report. (July 19, 2007)

Ringing in an engagement ... with the bells of McGraw Tower
Waitz Ngan was a sophomore at Cornell when she fell in love with the chimes. She was a medical student at Stony Brook when she fell in love with Adam Schuldt. Her engagement ring reflects both passions. (July 19, 2007)

Movie based on book by Rachel Maines debuts July 28
Cornell historian Rachel Maines' scholarly book, 'The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction,' has been made into a documentary that will premiere at Lincoln Center, July 28. (July 19, 2007)

Why kids should 'think like a scientist'
The 'Thinking Like a Scientist' program, developed by Cornell's Wendy Williams, teaches disadvantaged children the scientific method and why it is so relevant to their lives. (July 19, 2007)

John Cawley named to NIH scientific review committee
Associate Professor John Cawley has accepted a seat on the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (July 19, 2007)

Consumer policy expert Scott Maynes dies at age 84
E. (Edwin) Scott Maynes, professor emeritus of policy analysis and management and an expert on consumer policy, consumer decision-making and survey research methodology, died at his home in Ithaca, June 24, at age 84. (July 19, 2007)

Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
In the evolutionary battle in which plants are trying to beef up their defenses against pathogens, a bacterium has been found that infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant's cells to undermine the plant's defense system. (July 18, 2007)

Assessing levies for by-catch could fund conservation measures
Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened. One solution offered by a Cornell researcher and an Australian government scientist is to assess fines when threatened species are caught and killed. (July 16, 2007)

Law School center is dedicated in Paris
Four U.S. Supreme Court justices and their European counterparts as well as a contingent of faculty, alumni and students attended the dedication of the Cornell University Center for Documentation on American Law, July 17 in Paris. (July 17, 2007)

Professor arranges Cornell gift to French high court
Basil S. Markesinis, a former visiting faculty member in comparative law at Cornell Law School, is the matchmaker behind the gift of the Cornell Center for Documentation on American Law to the Cour de cassation. (July 17, 2007)

How the Cornell Law School center in Paris came to be
When French justices at the Cour de cassation in Paris expressed a need to establish a library of American jurisprudence, CU Professor Claire Germain suggested donating duplicate copies from the Law School's collection. (July 17, 2007)

Cornell vet students, faculty help keep area pets healthy
The Southside Community Center's Well Pet Clinic, run by students and faculty in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, serves healthy pets and their owners on the second Wednesday of every month. (July 17, 2007)

CU hosts national sustainable agriculture education conference
More than 150 people attended the July 11-14 conference, which was aimed to help define how agricultural educators might address the growing need for sustainable practices in today's environmentally challenged world. (July 17, 2007)

CU volunteers provide food, water and legwork at Relay for Life
More than 350 cancer survivors and guests were treated to a chicken barbecue provided by volunteer staff at the Hotel School and Statler Hotel at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life, July 13. (July 17, 2007)

Mary 'Gogo' Kiplinger, wife of Austin Kiplinger, dies at age 88
Gogo Kiplinger, 88, a homemaker and wife of Cornell trustee emeritus and chairman emeritus of the board Austin H. Kiplinger, died July 15 in Seneca, Md., of ovarian cancer. (July 17, 2007)

Extension advocate Professor Bruce Wilkins dies at 76
Bruce Tabor Wilkins Sr., Cornell professor emeritus of natural resources, died June 30 at age 76 from complications related to a stroke. (July 17, 2007)

Cornell team recounts successful NASA microgravity flight
The Control Moment Gyroscope Research Team has returned from its reduced-gravity flight at NASA in Houston. The students boarded the 'vomit comet' to test their robotic arm, powered by gyroscopes. (July 16, 2007)

ILR and HumEc team up for nursing home study
Faculty members from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and College of Human Ecology will examine how new medical information technologies affect both employees and residents in nursing homes. (July 16, 2007)

Paul Bowser honored with SUNY Chancellor's Award
Paul Bowser, professor of aquatic animal medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service for 'consistent superior service.' (July 16, 2007)

Sandra Day O'Connor to visit Law School in October
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will visit Cornell Law School as its Distinguished Jurist in Residence during the week of Oct. 22. (July 12, 2007)

Jobs in finance and medical research going to India, study shows
Low-skilled services aren't the only occupations shifting overseas, says the ILR School's Sarosh Kuruvilla. His latest research shows that many high-skilled U.S. jobs are being outsourced to India. (July 12, 2007)

Einaudi Center holds international art workshop for K-12 teachers
The interdisciplinary approach of the June workshop, 'Teaching World Culture Through Art,' was intended to encourage local art teachers to more fully integrate international studies into their curricula. (July 12, 2007)

New Yorkers say state economy is getting worse, survey shows
When it comes to the economy, the New York state of mind is deteriorating, according to the 2007 Empire State Poll, a yearly survey conducted by Cornell's Survey Research Institute. (July 12, 2007)

Cornell art faculty exhibit work in China
Art department faculty members found a new audience for their work in June with exhibits in China, thanks to an evolving partnership between the department and Tsinghua University in Beijing. (July 11, 2007)

Changing climate will challenge NE agriculture, CU expert warns
Farmers will grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and water problems that could strain family farms to the limit, warns David Wolfe, a Cornell expert on the effects of climate change on agriculture. (July 11, 2007)

CU researchers discover evidence of very recent human adaptation
A study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years. (July 11, 2007)

Law School clinic helps torture victim get another day in court
This week a 32-year-old Guatemalan man is getting a second chance to gain his freedom -- and possibly save his life -- thanks to the help of Cornell Law School's Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. (July 10, 2007)

Ron Furry pens history of biological and environmental engineering
As Cornell's Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering enters its second century, a professor emeritus has chronicled its early roots in agricultural studies and its many changes over the years. (July 10, 2007)

Patricia Phillips chosen to chair Department of Art
Art critic, editor and curator Patricia Phillips has been appointed art department chair, effective July 1. She succeeds Franklin Spector, who will continue teaching following a sabbatical. (July 6, 2007)

Theory Center is now the Center for Advanced Computing
The Cornell Theory Center has been reorganized and renamed in a move designed to make its high-performance computing resources more efficient and effective for researchers and to take advantage of opportunities for research funding. (July 6, 2007)

Map exhibit marks Cornell's 100th year as federal depository
The Olin Library exhibit runs through mid-August and showcases a wide variety of government maps, including the U.S. Geological Survey's topographic quadrangles and maps produced from satellite imagery. (July 5, 2007)

4-H kids on campus compete in counting steps
More than 450 teens participated in Cooperative Extension's 4-H Career Explorations program, which gave the students a taste of college, a glimpse into some future careers and a strategy for preventing obesity. (July 5, 2007)

CU researchers solve mystery of how DNA strands separate
The research, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, examined the role of an enzyme called a helicase that plays a major role in separating DNA strands so that replication of a single strand can occur. (July 2, 2007)