Table of Contents VOL. 3 NO. 3, SPRING 2011
ESSENTIALS
The Essentials
Harrison named next chair of board of trustees, sweatshirts without sweatshops, Doctorow's "Homer & Langley," alumna's Spanish immersion, Oscars and Sundance accolades. Read more
COVER STORY
New tricks for a very old crop
As challenges -- from yields to climate change -- to the world's rice crop grow, plant geneticist Susan McCouch and other researchers at Cornell are collaborating across disciplines to weed through the past to ensure this vital crop's future. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
The guy who picks apart roots, genes and software
Randy Clark '04, now a Cornell graduate student in bioengineering, has devised a system of cylindrical glass containers and gel for growing rice seedlings and imaging their roots in three dimensions as they grow. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
A singular vision of plant breeding with genetics
Cornell corn breeder Margaret Smith can confidently say her Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics is the best of its kind in the nation -- and not just because it happens to be the only one. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
Rice bred without corporate love
While maize, soybean and cotton are crops with strong market value in the United States and heavily backed by corporations, rice is another story. Read more
VIEWPOINT
Learning and inspiration while getting down and dirty in the rice paddy
Though I never realized it until now, my life seems always to have revolved around rice. Read more
OUTREACH
Students' designs help others sit up and take notice
Design students working with Professor Lorraine Maxwell have been helping the New Roots high school and Caroline Elementary School rethink how they use some of their spaces. Read more
ATHLETICS
Scott Palguta boosts soccer's U.S. profile
Scott Palguta '05, a four-year letterman with Big Red men's soccer, recently helped lead the Colorado Rapids professional team to its first Major League Soccer championship in its 15-year history. Read more
FOOD & WINE
North Star eatery provides east-west choice
North Star, located in the Appel Commons on Cornell's North Campus, serves 2,600 meals daily and offers a diverse, all-you-care-to-eat dining experience that maximizes choice. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
A conversation with David Croll
We recently talked with trustee David Croll '70 about his views on faculty renewal and what it means for Cornell in today's economy. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
Hotel School selects Hilton family for industry icon award
The Hilton family will be honored at a gala dinner June 7 as recipients of the School of Hotel Administration's 2011 Icon of the Industry Award. Read more
PEOPLE
Recalling the origins of 'Slaughterhouse-Five'
World War II's Battle of the Bulge, the Dresden firebombing, imprisonment in Slaughterhouse Five -- Gifford Doxsee '48 survived them all. Read more
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
How to make a Cornellian quilt -- just stitch a few carbon atoms together
The images could be mistaken for colorful patchwork quilts, but are actually pictures of graphene -- one atom-thick sheets of carbon stitched together at tilted interfaces. Read more
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Museum is a place of solace, inspiration, community
Frank Robinson, the Johnson Museum's Richard J. Schwartz Director since 1992, is retiring at the end of this academic year. The museum has been his full-time vocation and passion from the start. Read more
BOOKS
Biological weapons, robotics, fungi abound in 'Spiral,' Paul McEuen's debut thriller novel
For his debut novel, which hit American bookstores March 22, the physicist wanted to delve into science he didn't know. Read more
BOOKS
More notable books by Cornellians
Rodrigo Hasbn is one to watch, Cornell classics revisited, Typhoid Morris, gender bias and public vs. private lives, and more. Read more
NEW YORK CITY
Banquet brings hundreds to Chinatown
The 20th Cornell Asian Alumni Association annual banquet honored Roderick Chu, MBA '71, vice chair of the Cornell University Council, and attracted more than 350 people. Read more
NEW FACULTY
The latest talent on campus
A look at four new professors on campus: Avery August, Margo Crawford, Chad Lewis and Sarah Murray. Read more
