CALS in the News
Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park welcomes first tenants
Cornell University officials were joined Wednesday, Nov. 16 by government and business leaders to dedicate the new 72-acre research park, being marketed as the Technology Farm and located next door to Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/AgTechPark_opens.html.
Cornell harvest brings healthy food by the ton to needy dinner tables
This harvest season, families across the Southern Tier have received 81 tons of fresh fruits and vegetables, thanks to faculty and staff at Cornell University's Homer C. Thompson Farm in Freeville.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Harvest_donations.html
Cornell tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to spearhead next green revolution
Professor Larry Walker of Biological and Environmental Engineering will direct the Northeast Sun Grant Institute of Excellence, focused on developing fuel from biomass.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/SunGrant.institute.ssl.html
From 'Harry Potter' to 'The Incredibles,' blockbuster movies turn to Cornell Lab of Ornithology for blockbuster sounds
When sound editors needed the twitterings, hoots, and songs of a chiffchaff, burrowing owl, European robin, song thrush, common nightingale, and rooks at a rookery for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," they called on Cornell's Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology—home to the world's largest collection of natural sounds. The library contains some 165,000 audio recordings, together with a growing archive of wildlife video.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec05/HarryPotter.kr.html
Macaulay Library at Lab of O digitizes its collection
The entire collection of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library—the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video—is undergoing conversion to a digital format. Completion of the project is expected in four to six months.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Digital_Macaulay.kr.html
Rare South American bird 'sings' with its feathers to attract a mate, Cornell researcher finds
Similar to how a cricket chirps by rubbing together a sound-making apparatus in its wings, male club-winged manakins (Machaeropterus deliciosus) use specially adapted feathers in each wing to make a tone, according to a Cornell University ornithologist in the July 29 issue of Science. The sound and how the bird produces it are unique among vertebrates.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/Cricketbird.kr.html
Cornell workshop connects science with business
The Pre-Seed Workshop was held in November at the newly opened Cornell Agricultural and Food Technology Park (CAFTP) in Geneva. The workshop helped show Cornell researchers how to bridge the gap between lab research and a seed-stage—or start-up—company.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Pre-seed_workshop.jo.html