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ITHACA, N.Y. -- As the Medicaid system moves into a managed care model on a state-by-state basis, the entire medical structure in this country will change dramatically and the potential consequences "could be monumental," warns a Cornell University health economist. "We're on a fast-moving train but have no idea where it's going; that much money going into a managed care model will drive the entire way we all get medical services," said John Kuder, associate professor of health economics and finance in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. kuder.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Dedication ceremonies set for 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 7, will mark the official opening of the new Veterinary Medical Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. The five-story facility, under construction since 1994 with $54 million in funding from New York state, houses three animal hospitals, four academic departments and parts of two veterinary service units: the Companion Animal Hospital, the Farm Animal Hospital and the Equine Hospital; the departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Clinical Sciences, and Pathology; as well as some facilities for the Diagnostic Laboratory and Laboratory Animal Services. VMCdedicat.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- On days that parents bicker, both mothers and fathers are much more likely to also have tense days with their children, according to a new Cornell University/University of Arizona study. And although mothers, in general, have conflicts with their children about 40 percent more often than fathers do, fathers are twice as likely as mothers to argue with their kids on days they argue with their wives than on other days. parent.stress.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- It's no substitute for roaming the leafy byways, intriguing gardens and spectacular gorges in one of America's most beautiful college campuses. Rather, the new video presentation, A Journey Through Time and Nature: Cornell Plantations Path, adds a fourth dimension as archival film footage summons scholarly ghosts to join the modern-day walker through a living museum of natural history at Cornell University. A supplement to the book, Cornell Plantations Path Guide, the VHS videotape is sold for $24.95 or, together with the guidebook, for $33.90. The seven-mile Cornell Plantations Path, which opened in 1994, is a series of interconnected, interpreted walking trails that link historic downtown Ithaca with the university's academic campus, gardens and natural areas. pathvideo.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- More than 2 billion people -- one-third of the planet's population -- suffer from "hidden hunger," debilitating mineral and vitamin deficiencies that impair growth, physical and intellectual development, activity and survival, especially among women, infants and children in developing nations. To address this problem, 90 scientists, technical experts, program developers and development specialists from 29 countries gathered last November in Salt Lake City, Utah, to determine how permanent food-based systems could relieve micronutrient malnutrition. The summary of that workshop, the consensus for how to overcome the barriers and limitations of using available knowledge, and what new knowledge needs to be generated, are outlined in a new 68-page monograph, Food -Based Approaches to Prevent Micronutrient Malnutrition: An International Research Agenda, published by the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD). hunger.book.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Biologists at Cornell and Washington universities have genetically engineered and successfully field tested rice plants that resist some of the most destructive insects as well as salt and drought damage. Technology for the transgenic rice plants, which incorporates genes from potato plants to resist insect damage and genes from barley plants to make them salt-and drought-tolerant, will be given to developing countries under provisions of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Rights to the technology, which potentially can reduce crops losses by billions of dollars each year, will be sold in developed countries such as the United States and Japan. Development of the insect-resistant rice, which was reported in the April 1996 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, marks the first time that useful genes were successfully transferred from a dicotyledonous plant, the potato, to rice, a monocotyedonous plant. rice.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When Theodore C. Bestor haunts the wharves of New England and the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market in Tokyo, he's not just looking for really fresh fish. What the Cornell University social anthropologist is learning about Japanese expectations for imported seafood may aid the U.S. trade balance. And he could make the arrival of the "perfect" tuna a more regular occurrence for Japanese sushi chefs. seafood.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A group of alumni of the Cornell International Nutrition Program are gathering in Ithaca this week to honor the work, life and ideas of their friend and mentor, Michael Latham, M.D., Cornell professor of international nutritional sciences. The celebration includes scientific sessions, free and open to the public on Friday and Saturday, June 21 and 22, to discuss the vital nutrition issues to which Latham has devoted his professional life. More than 25 former students and research associates from about a dozen countries will be on hand to discuss these timely topics in Room 200, Savage Hall, on the Cornell campus. Here is the schedule for the scientific sessions open to the public: lathamcelebration.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although expensive and complicated to adjust, a split keyboard mounted onto the arms of a worker's chair can help reduce a typist's risk of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and other cumulative trauma disorders, according to a new Cornell University study. "Using the 'floating arms' keyboard (FAK) can reduce the time a typist's hands spend in deviated postures that increase risks for carpal tunnel syndrome," said ergonomist Alan Hedge, Ph.D., professor of design and environmental analysis and director of the Human Factors Laboratory in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. He pointed out that although there are several split keyboard designs on the market, the FAK is the only one that actually attaches to one's chair. split.keyboard.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Just days from the official start of summer -- June 20 at 10:24 p.m. EDT -- climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University won't let you soon forget this past winter's snow. How much snow was there? So much, that 18 all-time seasonal snow records were smashed throughout the Northeast. New York received 42.4 billion tons -- or 84.8 trillion pounds -- of the white stuff.snowweight.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Despite May's short, summer-like heat wave, this was the third consecutive month which saw monthly average temperatures cooler than normal, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. For the 12-state Northeast region, this ranked as the 27th coolest May in 102 years of records, according to Keith Eggleston, regional climatologist. The temperature averaged 1.6 degrees colder than the 30-year average, he said. NRCC.May.1996.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Coffee lovers should perk up to this: Cornell University students will defend their national food product development title at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual competition, June 23 in New Orleans. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared a product called "Stir-Ins," a pencil-shaped cookie wrapped in chocolate and touched with flavorant to make hot, freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic. Flavors will be available in Hazelnut, Irish Creme, or French Vanilla. The Cornell team is one of six finalists in the prestigious IFT Student Association 1996 Product Development Competition. stirpreview.bpf.html

NEW ORLEANS -- American consumers prefer their favorite cool beverages unclouded, like their weather, while drink makers hanker for a long shelf life. Thanks to new Cornell University research, cloudy wine may be a thing of the past. "Consumers think that if beverages such as apple juice or beer are cloudy, something is wrong with it," said Karl J. Siebert, Cornell professor of food science at the Agriculture Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. "Sometimes something might be wrong with a cloudy drink, like if a beer has been frozen, it could cloud or there might be a growth of a bad microorganism. But, generally, beverages like apple juice and beer are naturally cloudy." Siebert and other Cornell researchers have been clarifying beverages for several years to give those drinks a longer consumer shelf life. Scientists will present their research in this area in four talks at the 1996 Institute of Food Technologists' annual conference, June 22-26 in New Orleans: iftsiebert.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Studies at the Cornell Institute for Chemical Ecology (CIRCE) are showing just how resourceful male insects can be when they seek a mate. In one species, the fire-colored beetle Neopyrochroa flabellata, the male entices the female by presenting her with a chemical offering, secreted from a gland in his head. Next, as described in the June 25 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the female samples and ingests the offering, and responds by yielding to the male's copulatory advances. cantharidin.hrs.html

NEW ORLEANS -- Thanks to charismatic enzymes and environmental concerns, the brine from processed sauerkraut no longer may pose an ecological threat. Instead, it could cut the mustard as a popular flavor enhancer for a variety of beverages and foods, according to a Cornell University scientist. Sauerkraut brine is the byproduct generated in the fermentation of cabbage. When the brine is poured into sewers or other tributaries, it becomes a pollutant since it robs the water of oxygen. It has high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and large amounts of lactic acid and salt, thus contributing to environmental degradation. But Cornell scientists have found a solution to the pollution. By adding a yeast known as Candida wickerhamii, the brine is neutralized of the oxygen-stealing organic matter. The yeast uses most of the biochemical oxygen demand. After adding the yeast to the brine, a very useful enzyme, Beta-glucosidase, results, according to Yong D. Hang, professor of food science at Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. ifthang.bpf.html

NEW ORLEANS -- With pencil-shaped, chocolate-covered cookies called Stir-Ins, which add flavor to coffee, Cornell University students on Monday (June 24) won the national championship at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual student food product competition. "We could hear it crunch! Yes!" said Kathryn Deibler, Cornell graduate student and member of the team, describing the judges' correct use of the cookie. "Then, the judges asked if they could keep the red Cornell coffee mugs. Yes!" iftwin.bpf.html

NEW ORLEANS -- The microwave oven is not just for popcorn anymore. Consumers who want fresh microwaved foods that are supposed to be crisp and taste better can look forward to improvement, thanks to new Cornell University studies that show how moisture, heating rate and the food's porosity interact during microwave cooking. iftdatta.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although Hong Kong and Taiwan represent some 80 percent of the foreign investment in China and share a common language and culture with the mainland, American and Japanese foreign investments are much more profitable, according to a Cornell University study. And companies that manufacture in China and then sell to Chinese consumers rather than heavily export are the most profitable, says Peter Chi, Cornell professor of consumer economics and housing, who leads the study. invest.china.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Coffee lovers should perk up to this: Cornell University students will defend their national food product development title at the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual competition, June 23 in New Orleans. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared a product called "Stir-Ins," a pencil-shaped cookie wrapped in chocolate and touched with flavorant to make hot, freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic. Flavors will be available in Hazelnut, Irish Creme, or French Vanilla. stirpreview.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nobel Prize winner Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University professor emeritus of physics, has a new award named in his honor established by the American Physical Society (APS). The APS will announce the award at a reception on the occasion of Bethe's 90th birthday on July 2. Bethe is being honored for his "outstanding and numerous accomplishments in both astrophysics and nuclear physics," said Judy Franz, APS executive officer who is scheduled to make the announcement here. Bethe, who continues research in physics in his Cornell office in the Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, is expected to attend the reception. The Hans Bethe Prize, a cash award of $7,500, is to be awarded annually, beginning in 1998, for outstanding work in theory, experiment or observation in the areas of astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, or closely related fields. The intention is to recognize outstanding achievements in one of these areas by a scientist world-wide, according to the APS. The Prize is endowed by donations from members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, the Division of Astrophysics and friends of Bethe. Cornell University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have made major contributions to the endowment. Betheprize.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ten artists from this year's reunion classes will exhibit their work at the second annual Cornell University alumni art exhibition June 3 through 14 in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall. The public is invited to attend an opening reception Friday, June 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the gallery. In addition, Franklin W. Robinson, director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, will present a public gallery talk at the exhibition on Saturday, June 8, at 3 p.m. artexhibit.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Before they left campus in May, Cornell students donated 27,450 items of clothing to six local community agencies, according to Connie Fuess, one of the organizers of the annual clothing drive. Recipient agencies are the Tompkins County Task Force for Battered Women, the Tompkins County Economic Opportunity Corporation, Family and Children's Services, the local Tibetan refugee association, HOMES Inc., and the Committee on United States/Latin American Relations. Donations were received from faculty, staff and students. clothing.dis.cf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ford Motor Co. of Dearborn, Mich., has joined the Cornell Theory Center's Corporate PartnershipProgram (CPP). Ford plans to apply CTC's high-performance computing capabilities in order to reduce the time it takes to bring a new car to market. "We're eager to scale up the numerical simulations to help system design," said George Shih, a supervisor in Ford's Advanced Vehicle Technology group. "HPC will help us reduce the time from initial design to a new car rolling off the assembly line." ford.lc.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co. has joined the Cornell Theory Center Corporate Partnership Program (CPP) to access strengths in algorithm development as well as the center's 512-node IBMRS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP). "Kodak is working on a number of uniquely interesting scientific problems having to do with making good photographic emulsions that lend themselves to computational modeling," said Malvin H. Kalos, Theory Center director. "We are delighted to be able to explore with them the ability of our SPcomputers to accelerate their designs. With Kodak's base in Rochester, we're also happy to help a New York State industry stay at the leading edge of the latest technology." kodak.lc.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- See how basketball and skiing athletic wear has become part of popular fashion, how surrealism in the fine arts in the 1930s has influenced fashion ever since and how the first couturier, Charles Worth, incorporated aesthetic ideas from Chinese and Japanese textiles into his great designs. All these and more are in a new exhibition, "A Dialogue Across Time: Evolution and Change in Dress," in Room 317 of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall at Cornell University. The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be open until Aug. 22. timedress.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- It's no substitute for roaming the leafy byways, intriguing gardens and spectacular gorges in one of America's most beautiful college campuses. Rather, the new video presentation, A Journey Through Time and Nature: Cornell Plantations Path, adds a fourth dimension as archival film footage summons scholarly ghosts to join the modern-day walker through a living museum of natural history at Cornell University. A supplement to the book, Cornell Plantations Path Guide, the VHS videotape is sold for $24.95 or, together with the guidebook, for $33.90. The seven-mile Cornell Plantations Path, which opened in 1994, is a series of interconnected, interpreted walking trails that link historic downtown Ithaca with the university's academic campus, gardens and natural areas. pathvideo.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings today announced the appointment of three interim deans, filling key positions in the Cornell University Medical College, the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. Dr. Carl F. Nathan, the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine and senior associate dean for research at the medical college, will replace Dr. Robert Michels as dean of the medical college, effective July 1. Dr. Michels announced in December that he was stepping down from the post at the end of the spring semester. Interim.appts.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings has named the 1996 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring their "effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students." The honorees, announced at a May 25 dinner on campus, are: Frederick M. Ahl, professor of classics; Daniel P. Huttenlocher, associate professor of computer science; and Lois S. Willett, associate professor of agricultural research and managerial economics. weissfellows.sm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the appointment of a number of key university administrators. At the May board meeting the Executive Committee approved the appointments of Winnie F. Taylor, professor of law at the Cornell Law School, as associate provost; Edward J. Lawler, professor of organizational behavior in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, as dean of the ILR School; and Philip E. Lewis, acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as dean of the college. The trustees also approved the reappointment of Henrik N. Dullea as vice president for university relations and Glenn C. Altschuler, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, as dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. Appointments.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Exxon Education Foundation, which donates $3 for every $1 Exxon employees and retirees contribute to colleges and universities, recently presented Cornell University with a check for $270,267. The presentation was made to Cornell President Hunter Rawlings by Sam J. Sorbello, manager of employee relations for Exxon Ventures CIS of Houston. Sorbello is a 1977 graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations; he received his MBA from the Johnson School in 1979. Exxon.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ithaca Fire Department, in cooperation with the Ithaca Police Department and Cornell Police, is investigating a fire of suspicious origin that broke out shortly after 3 a.m. today (June 10) at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house at 2 McGraw Place. The fire was brought under control shortly after it was reported. Sprinkler and fire alarm systems in the building were operational, Fire Chief Brian Wilbur said. There were no injuries. Eight persons residing in the house have been relocated by Cornell's Housing Office in the Division of Student and Academic Services. McGraw.place.fire.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University transportation officials have announced that a temporary bus stop has been added on East Avenue, by Stimson Hall, to address the needs of southbound passengers generated by the Sage Hall renovation project. "Currently," said William Wendt, director of Cornell's Office of Transportation Services, "transit passengers approaching from the north [the Day Hall area], must cross the street twice in order to approach the Sage Hall shelter." New.bus.stop.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Biddy Martin, the chair of Cornell University's Department of German Studies for the past two years, has been appointed associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. She will continue to serve as an associate professor in the Department of German Studies and the Women's Studies Program and as director of graduate studies for the Field of Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies. Professor Arthur Groos will succeed Martin as interim chair of the Department of German Studies. Martin_appt.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, June 20. The meeting will be held in Room A/B of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th St. In open session at 2:45 p.m. the committee will hear reports on the state budget and on buildings and properties. The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet at 7:30 a.m. in Room A/B on June 20. Trustee.exec.comm.620.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Scholars and collectors interested in African art have long focused their attention on traditional works -- particularly the wooden sculptures and ethnographic artifacts that may be seen in today's Western museums and are described in mainstream art history textbooks. But contemporary art work coming out of Africa and the African Diaspora communities in the West has been all but ignored and is only recently and gradually being given the attention it deserves, according to Salah Hassan, an assistant professor of African and African American art history at Cornell University. "I am one of several art historians and art critics who have become dismayed with the state of the discipline, because it has focused mostly on the traditional and the so-called 'classical' African art, to the neglect of the contemporary -- and, more specifically, the modernist and postmodernist -- experience within African art," Hassan said. To adjust that focus, Hassan and two of his colleagues, Okwui Enwezor, a New York City-based art critic and writer, and Olu Oguibe, an artist, art historian and critic based in the History of Architecture and Art Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, have established a scholarly journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, which takes its name from an Ibo (Nigerian) word meaning "creativity." The journal is published in conjunction with Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center and edited collaboratively in New York City. Since establishing it in 1994, the editors have produced four issues of the journal. African.Art.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The plaza in front of Day and Stimson halls is about to undergo a facelift that is designed to improve the safety of the area and beautify a major entryway to Cornell University. "The plaza serves as a front door to the university, both figuratively and literally," said Philip L. Cox, director of facilities management. "For several years we have been hoping to improve the landscaping in front of Day Hall to present the same sort of image to our visitors that we strive for with the rest of our magnificent campus grounds. In addition, safety concerns resulting from the uneven surface make this work a necessity." Day.Hall.renovation.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Twenty-eight teen-agers associated with the New York City agency Boys Harbor will attend Cornell University's Summer College, from June 22 to Aug. 6, on scholarship support from an anonymous donor. Six students from Central Park East High School and University Heights (Bronx) High School in New York also are coming to Summer College with scholarship support from the Uris Foundation. From Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, six students will spend their summer at Cornell thanks to the generosity of major corporations, such as Aetna, Tenneco and Continental Airlines. And just this year, two new contributors have joined the list of Summer College's partners: Salomon Brothers Foundation, which will support three students from the Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn, and Bloomberg Financial Markets, which will sponsor a student from New York City. These partnerships with social agencies, foundations, corporations, high schools and generous benefactors have made it possible for over 300 disadvantaged students -- of ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds -- to attend Cornell's Summer College since 1992. summer.partnerships.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Eight days after about 550 high school juniors and seniors arrive on campus for Cornell's Summer College program, 150 high school sophomores will check into campus residence halls as the inaugural class of the Summer Honors Program for High School Sophomores, which begins June 30. Cornell officials weren't sure just how many teens to expect for the sophomore program -- but they didn't count on 150. "We're delighted at the response, but not surprised," said Abby Eller, director of the program. summer.sophomores.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Steven Ames, a private investor in New York and a longtime supporter of Cornell University's art scene, has been named chair of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Advisory Council. The appointment was made by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings. Ames succeeds Richard Schwartz, who resigned to serve as vice chair of the New York State Council on the Arts. Ames.dg.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- To recognize professional and administrative staff, the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University recognized three individuals at its first College Staff Award presentation on Thursday, June 20. Sandy J. Cooper, an administrator in the Department of Consumer Economics and Housing, is the recipient of the first College of Human Ecology Professional Administrative and Staff Award. Among other attributes, she was chosen for her "high ethical standards, her willingness to listen, her ability to solve a multitude of problems and her critical role in supporting faculty as they apply for grants." Humecawards.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees on May 24 unanimously elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows and re-elected two at-large members and four fellows. Board members also welcomed two alumni-elected trustees, one faculty-elected trustee, one student-elected trustee and two trustees appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki. In addition, the board unanimously re-elected Stephen H. Weiss as chair of the board and Ronald P. Lynch, Harold Tanner and Carol C. Tatkon as vice chairs, all for one-year terms beginning July 1. Elected as at-large members of the 64-person board to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Paul F. Cole, Ann S. Bowers, Ronald P. Lynch, Edwin H. Morgens and Dr. Samuel O. Thier. new.trustees.jkp.html