U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, visited Cornell Dec. 20, to hear from university researchers and administrators about how the federal government can help improve the process of bringing the fruits of the university's biotechnology research to market.
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference at Cornell will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On-site registration will begin at 9 a.m. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, the conference will feature forecasts for agricultural and economic issues.
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's Albert R. Mann Library is offering a solution: an information source it has dubbed "library-in-a-box."
Two prominent entomologists, one from Cornell, warn that three recent studies on the effects of genetically engineered crops have distorted the debate about engineered crops and that this could have "profound consequences" for science and public policy.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected two commercial dairies as producing the highest quality milk in New York state. The annual selection is tied to the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program, sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order.
An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers.
A simple change in cattle diets in the days before slaughter may reduce the risk of Escherichia coli (E. coli) infections in humans, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cornell University microbiologists have discovered.
Representatives from six North Country counties of New York state will meet with legislators, state agency representatives, statewide food and farm organizations, and Cornell specialists in food, farm and nutrition policy Monday and Tuesday, May 18-19, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center to discuss support for local efforts to improve food production and distribution.
Humans' use of antimicrobial spices developed in parallel with food-spoilage microorganisms, Cornell University biologists have demonstrated in a international survey of spice use in cooking. (March 4, 1998)
