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October, 1999

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John Callister named director of Kinzelberg program to train engineers in business
ITHACA, N.Y. -- John Callister, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named director of Cornell University's Harvey Kinzelberg Enterprise Engineering Program. The undergraduate program is designed to help undergraduate engineering students adapt their education in the traditional engineering disciplines to a business environment. Endowed in 1995 by Harvey Kinzelberg, a 1967 graduate of the Cornell College of Engineering, the program is open to students in all engineering fields at Cornell. The program includes an introductory freshman course in engineering entrepreneurship and the fundamentals of high-technology business. During their sophomore and junior years, students take two economics courses and two entrepreneurship courses from outside the engineering college. They conclude the program with a senior course in the development of a comprehensive business plan for a high-technology, high-growth product or service. Callister.director.ms.deb.html (October 29, 1999)

Professors take computer expertise to Wall Street
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although financial markets might seem to be ruled by emotion and speculation, there are ways to take a scientific approach to investing, particularly with the help of high-performance computers. Indeed, the fields of computational finance and financial engineering are becoming valuable tools on Wall Street. With this in mind, two Cornell University professors will travel to New York City's financial district Monday, Nov. 1, to launch the Financial Industry Solutions Center (FISC) Seminar Series at 55 Broad St., third floor, from 5 to 7 p.m. CTC.investing.mc.deb.html (October 29, 1999)

Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill makes a surprise visit to recruit students
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Wall Street wunderkind Sandy Weill, who also happens to be an alumnus of Cornell University, Class of '55, as well as a trustee emeritus, made a surprise appearance recently on Cornell's campus to recruit for Salomon Smith Barney. The investment group's parent company, Citigroup, is headed by Weill, co-chairman and CEO John Reed and, as of Oct. 27, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. Weill built two financial service giants, Shearson Loeb Rhoads, which sold for almost $1 billion in 1984, and Commercial Credit, which acquired Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers, merged with the Travelers, then joined forces with Citicorp last year in one of the most profitable mergers of the century. The combined firm of Citigroup is worth an estimated $150 billion. Weill.talk.html (October 29, 1999)

Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell physiologist, to receive Germany's Order of Merit award
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Germany's highest civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit), will be conferred on Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell University professor of physiology. The award by German President Roman Herzog will be presented to Beyenbach by JŸrgen Chrobog, Germany's ambassador to the United States, in Oct. 29 ceremonies at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. Beyenbach will be cited for his work in behalf of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America. Beyenbach_award.hrs.html (October 28, 1999)

Ag info for developing countries on CD-ROMs
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Researchers in developing countries find it frustrating trying to keep abreast of the latest agricultural research because hard currency shortages prevent the purchase of hugely expensive scientific journals. Now, Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library is offering a solution: an information source it has dubbed "library-in-a-box." The library is a 44-pound set of 172 compact discs packed with texts of 140 agricultural and life science magazines published between 1993 and 1996, with annual updates. An outgrowth of hard work by former Mann Library Director Jan Olsen, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Literature (TEEAL) was developed by Wallace Olsen, a senior research associate at the library, who with his staff worked for 10 years to shoe-horn 735,000 pages on to the CD-ROM's. "It's a monster," says Olsen. LibeInBox.bpf.html (October 27, 1999)

Book helps long-term care assistants cope
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Being a nursing assistant in a long-term care facility is one of the most demanding jobs in America, says a Cornell University gerontologist. These professionals require emotional strength and interpersonal skill as they confront on-the-job suffering, dementia and mortality every day. To help nursing assistants better cope with their major causes of job stress and burn out, Karl Pillemer, professor of human development at Cornell and co-director of the Cornell Gerontology Institute, has co-authored a new book, The Nursing Assistant's Survival Guide (Frontline Publishing, 1999). nursing.assistants.ssl.html (October 27, 1999)

Human disease solutions in animal genomes
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Natural solutions to human diseases, from Alzheimer's to cancers, might lie within the genomes of whales, bats and other mammals, a leading genetic researcher believes. Treatments, from drugs to therapies, might result from mapping the thousands of mammalian genomes. "Genetic resistance to infectious diseases like hepatitis, papilloma, herpes and AIDS is an area where genomics is just getting started and will have a huge future," Stephen J. O'Brien, chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity for the National Cancer Institute, said at a lecture at Cornell University. O'Brien.compgenome.deb.html (October 27, 1999)

Doris Davis, admissions dean at Barnard College, named associate provost for admissions and enrollment
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Doris Davis, dean of admissions at Barnard College and an expert in the field of enrollment management, has been named to the position of associate provost for admissions and enrollment at Cornell University, President Hunter Rawlings announced today, Oct. 21, 1999. Assoc.provost.admissions.html (October 25, 1999)

'Tax schools' for New York small business and farm professionals
ITHACA, N.Y. -- To prepare tax professionals, accountants, farm business advisers and attorneys on the tax-law changes affecting small businesses and farms, Cornell University's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) will sponsor a Small Business and Farm Tax School, and an In-Depth Tax School around New York state in November and December. Topics include a summary of the latest Internal Revenue Service rulings, troublesome parts of recent legislation, education provisions, retirement, trusts and estates, Form 4797, Form 990, agricultural issues, partnerships, limited liability corporations and small-business problems. CornellTaxSchool.bpf.html (October 25, 1999)

Thermoelectric cooling and power generation
ITHACA, N.Y. -- It's possible that one day all the cooling power of a noisy, bulky household refrigerator will be available on a small device that is lightweight and has no moving parts. And the same device, when given a heat source like a car's exhaust pipe, could be used to generate electricity. Such thermoelectric devices already exist in consumer products like plug-in auto beverage coolers, where energy efficiency is less important than portability and low weight. The challenge facing researchers is to find new materials that could bring the technology to the next level in which the efficiency would rival that of conventional coolants in air conditioners as well as refrigerators. Also in the future might be miniature cooling devices directly on computer chips. Disalvo.thermo.deb.html (October 25, 1999)

Distinguished arts awards to Lawrence Halprin, an influential landscape architect, and Dennis Chang, a classical musician
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Lawrence Halprin, a landscape architect in San Francisco whose work helped shape modern landscape design, is the winner of Cornell University's 1999 Distinguished Alumni in the Arts Award. Kuei-Chuan Dennis Chang '99, a recent student in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences with a focus in music and dance, won the 1999-2000 Distinguished Student in the Arts Award. The alumni award, which is given annually by the Cornell University Council Cultural Endeavors Committee, was presented to Halprin on Oct. 12 in San Francisco by Professor Herbert Gottfried, chair of Cornell's Department of Landscape Architecture on behalf of Cornell President Hunter Rawlings. The corresponding arts award for a student, which includes a $1,000 stipend, was presented to Chang by Percy Browning, outgoing chair of the committee, during commencement ceremonies last May. Halprin.awd.html (October 25, 1999)

Bruce Levitt is new arts liaison and faculty director of the Cornell Council for the Arts
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bruce Levitt, professor and former chair of Cornell University's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, has been named faculty director of the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA). In this position, Levitt will be the arts liaison between all Cornell faculty members in the arts and CCA's advisory dean, Porus Olpadwala, who also is dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Levitt will work directly on campus arts issues with Anna Geske, CCA's executive director. Levitt.newarts.liaison.html (October 25, 1999)

Undergrad wins IBM award for computer graphics project
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) has announced that Warren Andrew Menzer is the winner of the second annual IBM Undergraduates in Computational Science Award. Menzer won the $3,000 prize for his development of a graphics tool to visualize complex socioeconomic data. Made possible through IBM's endowment of a partial fellowship, the award supports outstanding students of computer and computational science at Cornell. The winner is selected by members of CTC's executive committee. menzer.award.deb.html (October 25, 1999)

Vet students seek solution to overpopulation
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Each year an estimated 12 million cats, dogs and other pets in the United States are euthanized -- not because the animals are sick but because humans have the "disease" of not caring about pet overpopulation. In "Issues and Preventive Medicine in Animal Shelters," the first course of its kind at an American veterinary school, Cornell University's future animal doctors are discovering the extent of what their instructors call a national epidemic. The students in the College of Veterinary Medicine also are learning what enlightened animal shelters are doing about the problem (See "Smart Pet Tricks," attached) and what they, as caring professionals, can do to help. shelter_medicine.hrs.html (October 25, 1999)

Tango! concert and dance performances Oct. 30
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ithaca Tangueros is hosting Tango! a concert and dance performance Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell University. The show includes live tango music and performances by some of the finest Argentine Tango couples dancers in the world. Tickets for general audience are $12 in advance ($15 at the door); and for students, seniors and children, $8 in advance ($10 at the door). Tickets can be purchased at the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office, (607) 255-3430; Clinton House Ticket Center, (607) 273-4497; and Ithaca Guitar Works, (607) 272-2602. tango.fest.rel.html (October 25, 1999)

Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel to speak at Cornell
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986 for his efforts to rout human rights abuses around the world. Tickets for Wiesel's talk can be purchased at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office now and are $10 for the general public. Wiesel.talk.html (October 25, 1999)

New view of American architectural history
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A new book by Mary Woods, professor of architectural history in Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), shakes up long-held beliefs about how architecture first emerged as a profession in the United States. The book, From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America (UCLA Press, 1999), definitively shows that the profession, as we know it today, owes as much to the contributions of 18th-century U.S. artisans as it does to those of formally schooled British "gentleman" architects of the late 19th century. Woods.arch.book.html (October 25, 1999)

Economist urges minimum wage policy change
ITHACA, N.Y. -- While the House of Representatives considers a bill that would raise the minimum wage by $1 over three years to $6.15 an hour, a Cornell University economist asserts that the minimum wage is an outdated mechanism that does not help the working poor fight poverty. adv.miniumwage.ssl.html (October 19, 1999)

Cornell University Library receives $331,000 preservation grant for anti-slavery collection
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University Library has received a $331,000 grant to conserve its extensive Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection. The grant was awarded through the "Save America's Treasures" initiative, a public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and National Trust for Historic Preservation, and it will be administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is one of 62 projects funded nationwide and is one of only two awards made to libraries. The collection was started by Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, and is named after Samuel May, a 19th-century Syracuse minister and anti-slavery movement leader. Housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the university's Kroch Library, the collection documents the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional and national levels and includes more than 10,000 pamphlets, posters, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters and other documents. anti-slavery.grant.fc.html (October 19, 1999)

Small-business clinic for child-care providers
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should a home-based child-care provider set up a partnership and plan her liability insurance, floor plan, tax schedule and cash flow? What can a mother do when her landlord says she can't set up a small child-care business in her home? How should a small, part-time nursery school program go about expanding into a full-time child care center? These are just a few of the challenges facing an interdisciplinary team of 12 Cornell University students -- four human ecology undergraduates, four Law School students and four from the Johnson Graduate School of Management -- working as part of the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business (SC/SB) Project. child.advocacy.ssl.html (October 19, 1999)

Latino Studies Program celebrates its 7th annual Unity Dinner Oct. 29
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Latino Studies Program (LSP) at Cornell University is welcoming two prominent guest speakers in October and is celebrating Latino Heritage Month with its annual Unity Dinner. -- Tuesday, Oct. 26, Albert Camarillo, director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, will speak at 5 p.m. in 122 Rockefeller Hall. Camarillo's lecture, titled "Reflections on the Development of Latino Studies," is free and open to the public. latino.spkrs.rel.html (October 19, 1999)

Women entrepreneurs and Ivy League technology are focus of PCCW alumnae meeting in Palo Alto Oct. 23
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ivy League technology and women entrepreneurs doing business on the Internet will be examined at the fall meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group, at the Palo Alto Sheraton Hotel Saturday, Oct. 23. EDITORS: Members of the media are invited to cover the following events. Please contact Linda Grace-Kobas at the Sheraton (650-328-2800) Oct. 21-22 or report to the PCCW registration desk there on Oct. 23. pccw.1999.meeting.html (October 19, 1999)

Palomar camera gets sharper Neptune images
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera for the California Institute of Technology's 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory on the summit of California's Palomar Mountain that is providing detailed images unobstructed by atmospheric turbulence. The camera, the Palomar High Angular Resolution Observer (PHARO), receives light from a new adaptive optics (AO) system that corrects the turbulence to produce images with detail near the theoretical limit of the telescope. The camera was designed and built by a Cornell team led by engineers Thomas Hayward and Bernhard Brandl. The AO system was developed by a JPL team led by Richard Dekany. JPL is a division of Caltech. Hayward.Palomar.deb.html (October 14, 1999)

Hot July an omen of another subway series?
ITHACA, N.Y. -- In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it's like dŽjˆ vu all over again. The New York Yankees and the New York Mets, now playing in each of their league's championship series, appear to have climatological history on their side: Each of the past four subway World Series has been preceded by one of the state's warmest Julys on record. NRCC.YanksMets.bpf.html (October 14, 1999)

Computer model manages nuclear stockpile
ITHACA, N.Y. -- As the U.S. Senate this week wrangled over the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the spotlight was on the nation's still impressive stockpile of nuclear weapons. The United States stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1992, and for much of the time since then it has used a highly advanced computer model to plan the dismantling of weapons under strategic arms reduction treaties (START) and to maintain the U.S. nuclear stockpile. A Cornell University professor who helped create the computer model calls it "a principal tool for making sure the political commitments in these arms reduction negotiations are well informed and that we have a solid basis for understanding what we are committing to." turnquist.weapons.deb.html (October 14, 1999)

Counting elephants by monitoring sounds
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Biologists and acoustic engineers based at Cornell University will join researchers at two sites in Africa in a new program to monitor the numbers and health of forest elephants by eavesdropping on the sounds they make. New monitoring procedures will be tested in the Central African Republic, beginning in March 2000, and in Ghana in May 2000 before expanding to other regions of the continent. elephant_count.hrs.html (October 13, 1999)

Ghassan Hage to deliver University Lecture Oct. 22
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ghassan Hage, a cutting-edge figure in Australia's influential cultural criticism and the arts movement, will deliver a University Lecture Friday, Oct. 22, at 4:40 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. The lecture, titled "White Trauma and the Politics of Multiculturalism," is free and open to the public. Hage is senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia. His contributions to the field have helped put Australia in the forefront of works in cultural theory, as well as in the area of innovative artistic production, within a multicultural social context. uni.lecture.hage.html (October 13, 1999)

Author Tim O'Brien to read at Cornell
ITHACA, N.Y. -- National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien will deliver an inaugural reading for the newly endowed James McConkey Reading Series, Friday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, on the Cornell University campus. The series, which honors McConkey, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus, is free and open to the public. "O'Brien is considered one of America's best fiction writers and is the only major American writer with a coherent body of work which addresses the American experience in Vietnam," said Michael Koch, editor of Epoch magazine, who helped organize the event. tim.o'brien.fac.html (October 12, 1999)

Veterinary College recognizes work of licensed veterinary technicians
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Licensed veterinary technicians (LVTs) will be in the spotlight at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine during National Veterinary Technician Week, Oct. 10-16. The celebration includes educational games for children visiting the college's teaching hospital, as well as a series of lectures for veterinary students. "Thirty-five licensed veterinary technicians work in our Companion Animal Hospital, Equine Hospital and Farm Animal Hospital," says Bonita Voiland, the college's assistant dean for hospital operations. "They are key members of the health-care team, helping provide the consistency necessary to maintain quality care for our animal patients." vet_tech_week.hrs.html (October 11, 1999)

Meeting to explore digital library of the future
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Every day, more and more information that once could be seen only under glass or on dusty shelves in library basements is being made available worldwide in digital form. Everything from priceless art objects to the private letters of minor participants in history is being scanned, digitized and posted on the World Wide Web or offered on CD-ROM. Meanwhile, vast amounts of data, from geological soundings to medical records to the e-mail memos of White House staffers, is being created in digital form, perhaps never to exist on paper. diglibconf.ws.html (October 8, 1999)

World-renowned designer of spacecraft technology to speak
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Malin, a world- renowned geomorphologist and Mars expert, will present a talk at Cornell University Oct. 13 on the latest discoveries made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. Malin's talk, hosted by the Cornell astronomy department, is free and open to the public. Titled "The New Mars: Observations from the Mars Global Surveyor Camera," the talk will be at 4 30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. Malin will describe the new Mars being revealed by the Mars Observer Camera (MOC) as a planet of perplexing geologic complexity. malin.space.deb.html (October 8, 1999)

Cornell announces $100 million gift for West Campus
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings today (Oct. 8, 1999) announced that the university has received a $100 million pledge -- only the second of this magnitude in Cornell's history -- from a friend who wishes to remain private. "This extraordinary commitment will play a major role in our goal to make Cornell the best research university for undergraduate education in the world," said Rawlings. Rawlings.campus.gift.html (October 8, 1999)

Oct. 15 Symposium honors Ferdinand Rodriguez, retiring professor of chemical engineering
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University School of Chemical Engineering is celebrating the career of retiring professor Ferdinand Rodriguez with a symposium on Friday, Oct. 15, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in 165 Olin Hall. The symposium is free and open to the public. chemeng.symp.fk.deb.html (October 7, 1999)

How DNA molecules get through small spaces
ITHACA, N.Y. -- On a steeplechase track about half the width of a human hair, Cornell University researchers are racing individual DNA molecules to learn how they move through tiny spaces. One of the surprising results: Large DNA molecules squeeze through certain small spaces faster than small ones. The research is aimed at better understanding the methods biologists use to decipher genetic information contained in a sample of DNA. The findings could help in the development of new DNA chips to speed and simplify such processes as DNA fingerprinting or the sequencing of bases in DNA samples. DNAtrapping.ws.html (October 7, 1999)

Christopher Ober and Trevor Pinch named to department chairs
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two new departments chairs have been announced at Cornell University. Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering, has been named chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for a three-year term starting Jan. 1, 2000. chairs.ober.pinch.deb.html (October 5, 1999)

Pentium cluster makes a supercomputer
ITHACA, N.Y. -- You may have a piece of a supercomputer on your desk -- that is, if you can get together with a few friends. A project at Cornell University has linked a cluster of 256 Intel Pentium III microprocessors together to act as a supercomputer, the largest "tightly-coupled" system of its kind so far, using the largest hardware switch ever assembled and new control software written at Cornell. Most importantly, it may be the most cost-effective supercomputer around. Since the system is built entirely with off-the-shelf components, such a cluster could easily be built almost anywhere and used for many scientific and business applications, Cornell experts say. cluster.ws.html (October 5, 1999)

Filmmakers and experts discuss issues Oct. 22-28 at Environmental Film Festival
ITHACA, N.Y. -- From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic visions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28 at Cornell University. Fifteen films and discussions by five filmmakers are included in the festival, sponsored by the Cornell University Center for the Environment, Cornell Cinema and the Einaudi Center for International Studies. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers or by experts on the film's topics. Many evening screenings will be followed by receptions for audiences to discuss the films and talk with the filmmaker and speakers. envirofilm_fest.hrs.html (October 5, 1999)

HUD investments said to help NY canal corridor
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on HUD's efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy. Their findings: economic investments have indeed increased tourism and produced jobs in the economically depressed canal corridor over the past three years, and they have the potential to do much more. The report was produced by researchers at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) and was based on a Cornell CRP study that looked at four upstate communities -- Fulton, Little Falls, Lockport and Oswego -- involved in the HUD-supported Canal Corridor Initiative (CCI) to spur private investment in revenue-generating projects in the region's 32 counties. The researchers also did a regionwide study, employing sophisticated analytic tools. Cuomo.Gore.rpt.html (October 4, 1999)

Cornell-affiliated researchers to testify before Congress on agricultural biotechnology Oct. 5 and 6
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three researchers associated with Cornell University will testify before Congress Oct. 5 and 6 on the use of biotechnology in foods and agriculture. They are Charles J. Arntzen, president and chief executive of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell University; Ralph Hardy, president of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council; and Anthony M. Shelton, Cornell professor of entomology. Shelton, who also is associate director for the office of research at Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will testify on the subject of genetically modified crops before the basic research subcommittee of the House Science Committee, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. GeneticTestimony.bpf.html (October 4, 1999)

Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC to host first Community Hydroponics Harvest Festival on Oct. 5
NEW YORK -- Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City and the Police Athletic League (PAL) will host the first "Community Hydroponics Harvest Festival" on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at PAL's South Bronx Center, 991 Longwood Ave. The festival will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Students from the Hydroponics Science Education Program at PAL will guide guests through the rooftop operation, where six large A-frame hydroponics units are housed. Produce grown there includes lettuce, endive, Chinese cabbage, collards and sweet basil. Hydroponic vegetables (i.e., grown in a nutrient solution) grow up to 10 times faster than in soil. Hydroponics is ideal for urban areas where land is limited. CCE-Hydro.bpf.html (October 1, 1999)

The Cornell Chimes ring out again from McGraw Tower
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ring in the new! After a year of silence, the Cornell University Chimes again are serenading East Hill. At 11 a.m. today (Thursday, Sept. 30), several Cornell chimesmasters played a few scales and short melodies from the new playing stand in McGraw Tower, as final adjustments were made to the connections and tension on the bell cables, wrapping up the yearlong Cornell Chimes installation and refurbishment project. Chimes.ring.again.html (October 1, 1999)

Lake Source Cooling update
Over the next few weeks, Cornell University and its contractor, Stolt Comex Seaway, will position piping in Cayuga Lake for the Lake Source Cooling project. This operation will be the culmination of construction during the summer and fall that will end with the last step of installing the piping on the lake bottom. LSCUpdate.html (October 1, 1999)

Exhibit celebrating Alison Lurie's literary career opens Oct. 7
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Author Alison Lurie's contribution to arts and letters will be celebrated with a Cornell University Library exhibit that opens Oct. 7 with a video screening followed by a reception. The exhibit, titled "Alison Lurie: Writer at Work," opens with a screening of Foreign Affairs, a 1993 made-for-television adaptation of Lurie's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in the Willard Straight Hall theater, Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. The screening, co-sponsored by Cornell Cinema, will be followed by a reception in the Carl A. Kroch Library Exhibition Gallery, level 2B. Both events are free and open to the public. lurie.exhibit.fc.html (October 1, 1999)