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Volume 36 Number 26 March 17, 2005

PAGE 3 POSTHUMOUS AWARDCornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes awards Franklinmedal to Hans Bethe’s widow, Rose.

PAGE 5 BOOM FILLS ATRIUMThe annual Bits On Our Minds computing fair fills the Duffield Hallatrium with innovations.

Students create earthy happening to launch life sciences buildingBy Larry Klaes

It was a happening worthy of late-night TV host DavidLetterman. The audience of trustees, alumni and faculty hadjust finished watching a short video, specially produced forthe ground-breaking ceremony for the Life Sciences Tech-nology Building (LSTB) on March 11 at Phillips HallAuditorium. The last scene of the video showed six Cornellsweatshirt-clad students – with red shovels and buckets ona pile of earth on Alumni Field – leaping skywards andyelling, “Congratulations!”

At that instant, the same students echoed the word andrushed from the back of the hall wielding their shovels andearth-filled buckets, which they presented to thegroundbreaking speakers, including renowned building ar-chitect Richard Meier ’56.

“Cornell’s first cross-campus groundbreaking,” ex-claimed President Jeffrey Lehman, receiving his bucket ofceremonial soil.

The virtual midwinter groundbreaking for the gleamingwhite four-story structure – and the ebullient presentation ofAlumni Field soil – was created to celebrate the final stagesof planning for the LSTB, which will begin to rise on thewestern end of the field in May or June, with completionscheduled for August 2007. The $140 million facility, theuniversity’s most ambitious building project yet, was de-scribed by Kraig Adler, vice provost life sciences, as “thecentral capital element in the academic and economic lead-ership of Cornell.”

The new building will be the centerpiece of Cornell’sNew Life Sciences Initiative (NLSI), a $600 million pro-gram involving seven colleges, hundreds of faculty mem-bers and up to 60 departments in research across the biologi-

Robert Barker/University PhotographyFrom left: Richard Meier ’56, Life Sciences Technology Building architect; Leti McNeil ’05, govern-ment; Jennifer Zhao ’05, engineering; Peter Meinig, chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees; SanfordWeill, chairman of the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College; and Steve Hohwald ’07,engineering, celebrate at the indoor groundbreaking ceremony for the new life sciences building, inPhillips Hall, March 11.

Kevin Stearns/University PhotographyThis refurbished 1948 Spartan Manor trailer houses the newest incarnation ofGimme! Coffee in the Ithaca area, a java spot nestled into the courtyard spacebetween Emerson Hall, the Plant Science building and Mann Library.

Courtyard Café is abuzz with a newbrew – the Gimme! Coffee trailerBy Franklin Crawford

Considering the amount of constructionon campus these days, the site of a trailer ishardly noteworthy – unless it happens to bea refurbished 1948 Spartan Manor airstreamtrailer advertising Gimme! Coffee nestingwhere the walls of Emerson Hall, the PlantScience building and Mann Library formwhat, until recently, had been a space withall the aesthetic charm of a prison yard.

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concept called the Courtyard Café – aneffort, according to Professor SusanMcCouch, “to transform a barren, wind-swept plaza into an attractive vibrant placefor people to sit, read, enjoy a cup of coffee,have a meeting or a chance encounter witha colleague.” McCouch is Cornell professorof plant breeding and genetics and memberof the Courtyard Café Committee, the groupthat agitated for the spatial upgrade.

“I’m ecstatic about having Gimme inthere and doing business, and I think it’s a

CU and LimeWire fix security flawin popular file-sharing softwareBy Bill Steele

A Cornell research group has discov-ered serious vulnerabilities in a widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing program.The weakness in LimeWire, a popularclient for the Gnutella file-sharing net-work, would allow an intruder to read anyfile on a computer running the program,including confidential information andsome password files. The problem oc-curs in both the free and paid versions ofthe program, in all operating systems.

As soon as members of his researchgroup noticed the problem, Emin GunSirer, Cornell assistant professor of com-puter science, immediately notified LimeWire LLC, the company that distributesthe software. “Lime Wire responded im-mediately and had a patch ready within afew hours,” Sirer reported, adding thatthe company needed several days to getthe patches out to all of the 36 millionpeople who had downloaded the pro-gram. LimeWire automatically posts anotice of the need to install a patch whenit is turned on. Patches are available for allversions except those that run on classicversions of the Mac OS, and the companyis working on that, Sirer said.

The most serious vulnerability af-fects LimeWire versions 4.1.2 through4.4.5. It enables intruders to connect toa computer even through a firewall. Asecond vulnerability affects versions3.9.6 through 4.6.0, but can be stoppedby a firewall. The latest, corrected ver-sion of the program is version 4.8.0; on

the Mac platform, the latest correctedversion is 4.0.10.

Both vulnerabilities can be exploitedwithout any special tools, Sirer said,through an ordinary telnet login. Likeother Gnutella clients, the LimeWireprogram is designed to allow users todownload music and video files sharedthrough the Gnutella network, and alsoto allow the user to provide shared filesto others. The glitch in the programunfortunately allowed remote users toretrieve other files, not just those in theuser’s sharing folder.

Sirer is a specialist in peer-to-peersystems. He and graduate student KevinWalsh discovered the LimeWire prob-lem while working on a new application,called Credence, that is intended to workwith LimeWire to give users a way todetermine how trustworthy upload sitesmay be. “Much of the content in peer-to-peer file-sharing networks is cor-rupt, damaged, or mislabeled. Such pol-luted content makes it difficult for cor-rectly functioning peers to locate de-sired content,” Sirer explained.

Credence allows users to share rat-ings of objects, similar to the ratings onAmazon, but with features that discour-age dishonest ratings. The idea has ap-plications to many other types of peer-to-peer networks, such as those in whichdistributed workers collaborate. “Assystems scale bigger and there is morecollaboration on the net, we are going toneed systems for evaluating the state-ments made by peers,” he explained.

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Donald J. Belcher, professor emeritusin the School of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, a civil engineer, educator andleading pioneer in the science of remotesensing, died in Papa’loa, Hawaii, Feb. 8.He was 93.

Born in Chicago on Feb. 11, 1911, hewas the son of the late Ova Clarence andHelen Edson Jenks Belcher. He earned adoctorate in civil engineering from PurdueUniversity in 1946. During this period hebegan a lifelong exploration of the practicalengineering applications of aerial photogra-phy, a discipline that became known asaerial photographic interpretation and, morerecently, as remote sensing.

Belcher joined Cornell’s School of CivilEngineering in 1946, where he founded anddirected the Center for Aerial PhotographicStudies until his retirement in 1976. In astoried career that spanned 50 years, Belcherdistinguished himself as an educator, scholarand innovator. During World War II, heserved as a civilian consultant under Gen.Douglas MacArthur to improve themilitary’s intelligence of battlefield condi-tions. Following the war, he used his skillsin aerial photographic interpretation to lo-cate land mines in Western Europe, andperformed a wide variety of consulting as-signments for U.S. military and civilianagencies and foreign governments.

As the exploration of space advanced,

A dozen CU faculty honored atceremony for teaching, advising

Twelve distinguished Cornell facultymembers were honored during a specialdinner and recognition ceremony on cam-pus March 10. The dinner was held in theStatler Hotel Ballroom, and President Jef-frey Lehman and Provost Biddy Martinintroduced the awards and the recipientsand made the presentations to the winners.

The awards presented were: the Robertand Helen Appel Fellowships for Human-ists and Social Scientists, the Kendall S.Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, theRobert A. and Donna B. Paul Award forExcellence in Advising in the College ofArts and Sciences and the Stephen H. WeissPresidential Fellowships.

Lehman honored the recipients and thedonors who created the awards in his re-marks, explaining that his pleasure in wel-coming those in attendance “comes frombeing a direct beneficiary of the great teach-ing and great advising that takes place atCornell ... Coming back to the hill after allthese years has been made even more mean-ingful for me by the discovery that some ofmy own professors are still teaching andadvising Cornell undergraduates.”

“By honoring the great teachers andmentors of Cornell in the 21st century, weare also honoring a tradition that goes backto our university’s roots,” Lehman said.“Andrew D. White selected his first facultywith great care ... he knew what he waslooking for: individuals who had ‘the powerof discovering truth and the power of im-parting it,’ traits that White believed were‘almost invariably found together.’”

“At the heart of a first-class university isits faculty,” Martin said, “and in my years asprovost I am constantly being reminded ofthe excellence and dedication of Cornell’sfaculty, even as I beat back the raidingparties from other universities that wouldsteal these superlative faculty from us.”

The following are the descriptions of theawards and this year’s winners, excerptedfrom Lehman’s and Martin’s remarks:

Robert and Helen Appel Fellowshipsfor Humanists and Social Scientists

Presidential Councillors Robert ’53 andHelen ’55 Appel established the Appel Fel-lowships for Humanists and Social Scien-tists in 1995 to help Cornell attract andretain outstanding faculty members in thehumanities and the social sciences, Lehmansaid at the presentation.

This year’s honorees for the Appel fel-lowships were: Mary Pat Brady, Depart-ment of English; Delia Graff, Departmentof Philosophy; and Jose Paz-Soldan, De-partment of Romance Studies.

According to Martin, Brady received theModern Language Association Award forbest book in Chicano/Latino literature in

2003, and her research interests includecultural studies and American multi-ethnicliterature. Graff, who joined the faculty in2001, focuses on the semantics of attitudeascriptions and the semantics of names anddescriptions. Soldan won the Bolivian Na-tional Book Award in 2003 for his novel ElDelirio de Turing, which is among six nov-els he has published. Soldan was not inattendance at the ceremony, as he currentlyis directing the Cornell Abroad program inSpain, Martin said.

Kendall S. Carpenter MemorialAdvising Awards

Cornell Trustee Stephen B. Ashley ’62MBA ’64 and his wife, Janice, establishedthe Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advis-ing Awards in honor of the late Ken Car-penter, who was Stephen Ashley’s adviserand professor of business management,Lehman said.

This year’s winners of the Carpenteradvising awards were: William W. Gold-smith, Department of City and RegionalPlanning; Harold F. Hintz, Department ofAnimal Science; Carole A. Bisogni, Divi-sion of Nutritional Sciences; and Alan D.Mathios, Department of Policy Analysisand Management.

Goldsmith has been a member of theCornell faculty since 1968 and is a specialiston theories and policies of city planning,urbanization and regional economic devel-opment, Martin said. He was chairman ofthe department in the 1980s and has servedas director of graduate studies and of theundergraduate program in urban and re-gional studies as well as of the study-abroadprogram in Rome. Goldsmith also foundedthe Cornell Program on International Stud-ies in Planning. Harold “Skip” Hintz isprofessor of animal nutrition and joined theCornell faculty in 1967 and has advisedstudents for many years. Bisogni is aspecialist in community nutrition andserved as associate director for academicaffairs in the department for more than adecade and was instrumental in develop-ing the human biology, health and societymajor in Human Ecology. She also servesas faculty adviser to the women’s swim-ming and diving team. Mathios has servedas associate chair and director of under-graduate studies for his department and iscurrently the associate dean of the Col-lege of Human Ecology. He is committed

OBITUARIES

Belcher helped interpret surface condi-tions on both the moon and Mars and usedair photos to identify sources of indus-trial pollution. At the dawn of the infor-mation age, Belcher also pioneered a com-puter-based land use and natural resourceinventory system.

Belcher was preceded in death by hiswife, Nancy Foote Belcher, and daughterHelen Stacy Belcher. He is survived bydaughters Marilyn Kay (Gerald) Whismanof Goddard, Kan.; Candace Brann of Hiram,Ohio; and sons Mathew (Emily Claspell)Belcher of Kamuela, Hawaii; Mark (AnneMarie Thurber) Belcher of Washington,D.C.; and Neil (Ailish) Belcher of Ithaca.Memorial contributions may be made to theCornell University Donald J. Belcher Mas-ter of Engineering Fellowship in Civil andEnvironmental Engineering.

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Lenore Frances Coral, adjunct profes-sor of music and librarian for the Cox Li-brary of Music and Dance, died of cancerMarch 8 at Hospicare in Ithaca. Coral wasraised in Detroit and attended Cass Techni-cal High School, where she was active play-ing the flute and piccolo. She went on tostudy at the University of Chicago, earninga B.A. in music (1961) and a master’sdegree in library science (1965). She con-tinued her studies on a Fulbright Fellowship

at King’s College, University of London(1965-67), receiving a Ph.D. in musicologyin 1974. Her career began at the Universityof California-Irvine in 1967, where she wasthe founding librarian of the fine arts collec-tion. She then served as music librarian atthe University of Wisconsin-Madison, andfrom 1982, as music librarian and adjunctprofessor of music at Cornell. Her Ph.D.dissertation began her lifelong study of Brit-ish auction and sales catalogs containingmusical materials, a field in which she wasconsidered a pre-eminent expert. At thetime of her death she left the nearly com-pleted manuscript of a book, which in herlast days she arranged to have finished,edited and published. Coral also will beremembered around the world for her no-table contributions to scholarship in thefields of library science and musicology. AtCornell she presided over one of the finestmusic libraries in North America, taught afamous seminar introducing students to thearcane skills required to do original researchin music and mentored generations of stu-dents. Coral is survived by her companionof many years, Anders Lönn, of Stockholm,Sweden, and her sister, Suzanne Allender ofPrescott, Ariz. A memorial service will beheld in Barnes Hall Auditorium on April 9 at2:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made to the Lenore Coral Endowmentfor the Cornell Music Library.

Robert Barker/University PhotographyDelia Graff, left, associate professor of philosophy, her daughter Clarissa GraffFara, 6 months, and Robert Appel ’53, right, enjoy a moment at the FacultyAwards Recognition Ceremony held March 10 in the Statler Ballroom. Graff wasone of three faculty members to receive a Robert and Helen Appel Fellowshipfor Humanists and Social Scientists at the dinner.

to student development, and his researchfocuses on government tax policy and itsimpact on smoking onset and cessation.

Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Awardfor Excellence in Advising

Robert Paul ’59, a Cornell trustee emeri-tus and presidential councillor, establishedthe Paul Advising Endowment in Arts andSciences with his wife, Donna, said Lehman.The endowment funds, among numerousadvising programs, the Paul Awards of Ex-cellence in Advising.

This year’s recipients of the Paul awardwere: Szonya Szelenyi, Department ofSociology; and Michael Koch, Depart-ment of English.

Szelenyi was an associate professor ofsociology but has since left Cornell, Martinsaid. She had served as director of under-graduate studies in the college. Koch, a seniorlecturer in the English department, editsEpoch, the department’s award-winning, in-ternationally distributed literary magazine.

Stephen H. WeissPresidential Fellowships

The Weiss Presidential Fellows Awardwas established by Stephen H. Weiss ’57,emeritus chair of the board of trustees and apresidential councillor, and his wife, Suzanne,said Lehman. Stephen Weiss is also a lifeoverseer of the Weill Cornell Medical Col-lege and former chairman of its board.

This year’s winners were: T. MichaelDuncan, School of Chemical andBiomolecular Engineering; C. RichardJohnson Jr., School of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering; and Peter J. Katzenstein,Department of Government.

Duncan arrived at Cornell in 1990 fol-lowing a decade with AT&T Bell Laborato-ries’ engineering research department. Hehas been associate director of his school forthe past 10 years and is known for hisinterest in keeping material fresh and rel-evant to students while ensuring that it isgrounded in scientific fundamentals of chem-istry, physics and math. He has been therecipient of numerous teaching awards.Johnson’s primary research interest has beenin adaptive filter design for communica-tions, Martin said. He began teaching atCornell in 1981 and has been not only aleader in electrical and computer engineer-ing, but a mentor who changes undergradu-ate students’ lives for the better, she said. Healso has received numerous teaching awardsover the years. Katzenstein has taught in theDepartment of Government for more thanthree decades, and his research and teachingare at the intersection of the fields of inter-national relations and comparative politics.He is also dedicated to graduate and under-graduate students and has received severalacademic honors and fellowships, includ-ing the Stephen and Margery Russell Dis-tinguished Teaching Award.

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Rhodes awards Franklin medal to Bethe on ‘a bittersweet day’By David Brand

It was, in the words of Cornell President Emeritus FrankH.T. Rhodes, “a bittersweet day.”

Three days after his death at the age of 98, Hans Bethe,one of the most honored scientists ever to grace Cornell,received a final tribute – the Benjamin Franklin Medal of theAmerican Philosophical Society (APS). “It is a day ofsadness, but it is also a day of pride,” said Rhodes, the APSpresident, in making the award.

Accepting the gold-plated medal at Kendal at Ithaca,where Bethe died quietly on March 6, his widow, Rose,spoke of how her husband had been looking forward to theceremony. “Hans was very touched when he heard about itbecause he thought that at his age to be honored once morewas really beyond anything he had hoped for,” she said.

“He was particularly struck that the philosophical soci-ety was founded for the promotion of useful knowledge,because that’s what he believed in.”

The APS is the oldest learned society in the UnitedStates, founded by Ben Franklin in 1743. The medal wascreated in 1906 by the U.S. Congress to mark the 200thanniversary of Franklin’s birth.

It was not the first time the medal had been awardedposthumously: in 1993 it was awarded to Nobel laureate andformer Cornell researcher Barbara McClintock, who haddied the previous year.

Also a Nobel laureate, Hans Bethe was professor emeri-tus of physics and an architect of the age of modern atomictheory. He spent 70 years at Cornell, during which time he“literally changed not only Cornell but changed world oflearning and the kind of model that was set,” said Rhodes,who had flown in from New York City for the ceremony.

Said Rhodes: “He was also a wonderful statesman ofscience; somebody who advised three presidents; somebodywho was a public advocate for the social conscience ofscience, for defense, for energy and especially for nuclearpower and for human welfare in the broadest sense. And it wasto him that so many of the rest of the scientific communitylooked, and still look, for leadership and inspiration.”

Rhodes also paid tribute to Rose Bethe and her family:“The source of so much of Hans’ strength, inner strengthand resilience was the love of you and other members of thefamily ... that wonderful marriage, with so much to cel-ebrate. We thank you and salute you in honoring Hans,

Robert Barker/University PhotographyFrank H.T. Rhodes, former president of Cornell and now the president of the American PhilosophicalSociety, presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal to Rose Bethe, widow of physicist Hans Bethe, March 10.

because this was a partnership in which you were insepa-rable and which meant so much.”

The award citation for Hans Bethe reads:

In recognition of his role asA preeminent physicist of the twentieth century, whose

productive research career has spanned eight decades.A pioneer in atomic physics, whose seminal work on

stellar energy production earned him the 1967 Nobel Prize.

A leader of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.A senior statesman of science and advisor to U.S. Presi-

dents on atomic energy.A courageous critic of defense policy and passionate

advocate of arms control.A beloved mentor to generations of Cornell physi-

cists, whose efforts helped to transform the CornellUniversity Physics Department into one of the world’sgreat centers of physics.

Heckscher Foundation awards $900,000 grant to Urban Scholars ProgramThe Heckscher Foundation for Children

recently awarded a $900,000 grant to theCornell Urban Scholars Program, in whichstudents from Cornell help address chal-lenges confronting New York City’s poor-est children, families and neighborhoods.

The grant will provide three years ofoperational funds for the Urban ScholarsProgram. A Heckscher Foundation grant in2002, and others that followed, establishedand propelled the program, which is a col-laboration between Cornell’s Departmentof City and Regional Planning, Public Ser-vice Center, Cornell Cooperative Extensionof New York City and the Cornell GraduateSchool. The undergraduate and graduate

students in the program work with non-profit organizations and municipal agenciesin New York City on advocacy and policyissues, as well as provide applied research.

“The Heckscher Foundation strongly be-lieves in the good work of the Urban ScholarsProgram, which is helping improve the qual-ity of life for many New York City children,while developing Cornell students’ interestsin nonprofit and public-sector careers,” saidHeckscher Foundation Director Peter Sloane.

The Urban Scholars Program sets stu-dents up with paid summer internships withsome of New York’s leading nonprofit orpublic sector agencies, and it providesweekly seminars, public policy field trips

and a weeklong community service work-shop during the academic year.

The program is co-directed by KennethReardon, a professor in Cornell’s Depart-ment of City and Regional Planning, and byLeonardo Vargas-Mendez, who directs theuniversity’s Public Service Center. “Thegenerosity of Peter Sloane and the Heck-scher Foundation has enabled students fromCornell to engage in work that has a positiveimpact on New York City’s poorest citi-zens,” said Vargas-Mendez. Added Reardon,“The program has engaged students fromacross the campus and has had to grow toaccommodate the interests of undergradu-ates who want to know more about the

public service sector before they travel toNew York, and now graduate students, whosetheses build on the work of the program.”

In addition to the summer internship pro-gram, the Cornell Urban Scholars Programsupports an Alternative Spring Break servicetrip to New York City, Cornell’s Nonprofitand Government Career job fair and a highschool leadership training institute at Cornell.

The Heckscher Foundation was establishedin 1921 to promote the welfare of children.Grants are made for child welfare and familyservice agencies, education, job training, rec-reation, music and the performing arts, healthand hospitals, summer youth programs andcamps and aid to the handicapped.

Wind energy use studied for campusPrompted by students from KyotoNOW!,

Cornell is studying the possibility of pro-ducing wind-generated electricity for itscampus and has opened discussions withits neighbors.

“Our investigation into using renewablewind energy is still in the study phase, andthere still are a lot of issues to explore,” saidHarold Craft, Cornell vice president for ad-ministration and chief financial officer, “but,so far, the possibility looks promising.”

In 2004 Cornell’s Department of Utili-ties and Energy Management completedan investigation into whether locally pro-duced wind-generated electricity would becost effective for the Ithaca campus. Thiswork was prompted by a request in the fallof 2003 by students from KyotoNOW!,an environmental advocacy organizationon campus.

“The students are aware of many of thebenefits of wind energy, and we agreed thatlooking into that possibility for Cornell madesense,” said Lanny Joyce, Cornell managerof engineering, planning and energy man-agement in the Department of Utilities andEnergy Management, who leads Cornell’sKyoto Task Team, chartered by Craft in

2001 to guide the university’s effort to re-duce energy use and carbon dioxide emis-sions. Wind energy could complement themany other conservation measures the cam-pus utilizes, Joyce added.

Cornell’s utilities and energy manage-ment department completed a wind inven-tory study for a 15-mile radius around Ithaca,and Mt. Pleasant, on university-owned prop-erty in the town of Dryden, has been identi-fied as a possible wind resource site.

The next step for exploring the feasibil-ity of wind energy generation on the Mt.Pleasant site is to install a temporary (24-month) meteorological station to better as-sess the wind resource, Joyce said. That tem-porary station will be constructed in April.

Cornell has initiated open discussionswith residents in the Mt. Pleasant area aboutthe study and about the plan to install atemporary meteorological test station. Andthe university is talking to immediate neigh-bors about the possibility of wind energyplanned for the Mt. Pleasant hilltop.

Cornell’s energy and other sustainabilityinitiatives are described online at <http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu> and<http://www.utilities.cornell.edu>.

Kevin Kornegay again namedLumpkin educator of the year

Kevin Kornegay, Cornellassociate professor of elec-trical and computer engineer-ing, has been named theJanice Lumpkin Educator ofthe Year by the National So-ciety of Black Engineers(NSBE). The award is one of15 annual Golden TorchAwards given by the NSBEfor those in the profession who haveachieved excellence in their chosen dis-ciplines. The awards will be recog-nized during NSBE’s 31st Annual Na-tional Convention and Career FairMarch 24 in Boston.

The Golden Torch, which symbol-izes the “everlasting burning desire tosucceed and affect positive change inthe quality of life for all people,” is thepremier award and recognition programfor African-American technical profes-sionals. The Educator of the Year award

recognizes a faculty memberwith demonstrated commit-ment to advancing educationin engineering, science andmathematics. This is the sec-ond year in a row the awardhas been given to Kornegay.

Kornegay is director ofthe Cornell Broadband Com-munications Research Labo-

ratory, where research focuses on thedesign of integrated circuits that oper-ate at radio and millimeter wave fre-quencies for broadband wired, wirelessand optical communications systems,such as high-speed wireless local areanetworks. He previously has been namedone of the “50 Most Important Blacks inResearch Science for 2004,” has receivedthe Cornell Provost’s 2004 Award forDistinguished Scholarship and was namedBlack Engineer of the Year in 2001. Hejoined the Cornell faculty in 1998.

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cal, physical, engineering, computationaland social sciences. The LSTB will be hometo the Cornell Institute of Molecular andCell Biology and the Department of Bio-medical Engineering, as well as an incuba-tor for start-up businesses.

New York state has provided $25 millionto the building project, making the LSTBthe largest life-science research facility inthe state. It will be, said Lehman in openingthe ceremony, a “building as large in scaleand bold in design as the research to beconducted in it.”

Meier, the architect of the Getty Center inthe Santa Monica hills north of Los Angeles,is senior partner of Richard Meier and Part-ners and a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56University Professor at Cornell. The LSTB,he told the audience, is “my first academicbuilding anywhere.” His goal as an architect,he explained, “is to bring people together tocollaborate – buildings are about people.”

Among its many features, the buildingwill have open public spaces that, along withmost of the building, will “take advantage ofthe changing natural light throughout theday,” explained Meier. The two-story Learn-ing Center wing extending from the maincomplex will be a focal point for both formaland informal exchanges among faculty, re-searchers and students, and tunnels will con-nect to the nearby Biotechnology Buildingand Plant Sciences Building, he said.

Meier noted that working on the LSTBhad brought him full circle in his career. “Ihoped one day I could give back to the placethat has given me so much,” he said. “Thefinal result [of a building] really depends onthe client, and Cornell has been a reallygreat client.”

It was nice, Provost Biddy Martin noted,“to have such a great architect who alsounderstands the Cornell culture.”

Other ceremony speakers also stressed theimportance of the new building and the NLSIto the university and beyond. “Connectivity isthe key. NLSI and the LSTB are important forCornell, Ithaca and the world,” said Sanford I.Weill, ’55, chairman of the Board of Over-seers of Weill Cornell Medical College inNew York City and a university trustee emeri-tus. The building and the program have “al-ready propelled Cornell to the forefront of lifesciences, which will help millions of lives inmany ways,” said Peter Meinig, chairman ofthe Board of Trustees.

As Lehman noted, “Cornell’s revolu-tionary genius has always been in makingconnections across disciplines that no groupor institution has done before.”

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CU chosen to be part of $5 million food-safety initiative funded by USDABy Susan S. Lang

Acute gastroenteritis – commonly re-ferred to as food poisoning – is the secondmost common household illness in theUnited States, with an estimated 76 millionfood-related illnesses occurring each year.

To learn more about preventing the spreadof food-related illness pathogens on thefarm, researchers at Cornell are joining anew U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA)-funded Food Safety Research andResponse Network (FSRRN), led by NorthCarolina State University. FSRRN is a newmulti-institutional, multidisciplinary teamof more than 50 food safety experts from 18colleges and universities who will investi-gate several of the most prevalent food-borne pathogens; it is funded by a $5 milliongrant from the USDA Cooperative State Re-search, Education and Extension Service.

“We will study pathogens, such as E.coli, Salmonella and Campylobactor, whichare among the most important food-bornepathogens in the United States, to determinewhere they thrive in the environment, howthey infect herds, how they can be detectedand what can be done to reduce their pres-ence in livestock and their risk to humanhealth,” explained Yrjo Grohn, one of theco-principal investigators on the project, aprofessor of epidemiology and chair of Popu-lation Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences inthe College of Veterinary Medicine at

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Cornell. The research, he said, will focus onpre-harvest food safety on farms.

At Cornell, all the researchers involvedare in Grohn’s department and include Yung-Fu Chang, professor; Ynte Schukken, direc-tor, Quality Milk Promotion Services(QMPS) and professor of epidemiology andherd health; Lorin Warnick, associate pro-fessor; and Linda L. Garrison-Tikofsky,senior extension veterinarian at QMPS.

Chang is co-leading work that will focuson characterizing the virulence factors re-quired for Campylobacter and Salmonellato colonize in animals in an effort to identifypotential target genes for pre-harvest inter-vention of these food-borne pathogens.

“Although these two organisms arewidely distributed in the intestinal tract ofanimals and birds, relatively little is knownabout the specific molecular mechanismsby which these organisms colonize or causedisease in different animal hosts,” explained

Chang. “By better understanding these viru-lence factors and their role in the pathogen-esis of these diseases, we hope to developstrategies that could help control and pre-vent food-borne diseases.”

In collaboration with Washington StateUniversity, Grohn and Warnick are co-lead-ing research that seeks to better identify thesources and spread of pathogens in livestockfeeds. The researchers hope to learn how tominimize the transmission of pathogens inswine, poultry and cattle feed, on farms and atlivestock production facilities. Grohn alsowill be taking the lead in developing newdiagnostic tests, detection methods, pathogensurveillance strategies and models to under-stand the presence, distribution and abun-dance of pre-harvest food safety pathogens.Schukken and Garrison-Tikofsky of QMPS,a research and service microbiology labora-tory that handles some 200,000 samples an-nually, will provide technical assistance.

While researchers at NC State are estab-lishing a microbial core facility to serve as aclearinghouse for information about tech-niques used to detect, identify and charac-terize bacterial pathogens, researchers atCornell and University of California-Davisare coordinating a second core facility toprovide epidemiology support.

“Food-related pathogens can enter thefood chain anywhere from the farm to homepreparation of meals,” said Grohn. “By re-ducing pathogens at the farm level, we shouldbe able to make a significant impact in reduc-ing risks to consumers. However, consumersshould realize that most food-related diseaseoutbreaks can be prevented with propercooking, storage and food handling.”

FSRRN also will serve as a responseteam of experts. At the request of otherfederal and state agencies, the team wouldbe mobilized to conduct focused researchneeded to control major episodes of food-related illness.

The 16 other institutions in the project are:Iowa State University, McMasters Univer-sity, Mississippi State University, North Da-kota State University, Ohio State University,Tuskegee University, University of Arizona,University of California-Davis, University ofCalifornia-Berkeley, University of Florida,University of Illinois, University of Ken-tucky, University of Minnesota, University ofMontreal, Washington State University andWest Texas A&M University.

VIVO search engine indexes life sciences resourcesA key goal of Cornell’s New Life Sci-

ences Initiative is to support collaborationamong biologists, engineers, physical andsocial scientists, mathematicians and com-puter scientists to enhance both researchand education in the life sciences. To helpall these people find each other, CornellUniversity Library has created VIVO: apowerful Web-based index to life sciencesresources, instruction, research, personneland facilities at Cornell.

VIVO, located at <http://vivo.library.cornell.edu> , brings together in one Website all the information you need to figureout who’s doing what, where, and how inthe life sciences at Cornell – and whatlibrary resources are available to supportthat work. Library officials call it a “vir-tual life sciences library.”

“VIVO provides unparalleled ‘one-stop’ access to information about the lifesciences at Cornell,” said Kraig Adler,vice provost for life sciences. “It’s awonderful tool for researchers and gradu-ate students, as well as undergraduateswho are looking for research opportuni-ties in faculty labs.”

Students and faculty members can useVIVO to search for fellow researchers,recent publications with Cornell firstauthors, courses, undergraduate majorsand graduate fields, events, and just aboutanything else related to the life sciencesat Cornell. A VIVO search transcendscampus, college and department divides.It also provides easy access to profes-sional tools including online databases,software and image collections licensedfor use by the Cornell community, aswell as to important external resources.

“In a sense, VIVO is a virtual commu-nity center where students and facultycan not only find the information theyneed to support their research, but alsoconnect with others who are pursuingsimilar studies,” said Janet McCue, di-rector of Mann Library, which led thedevelopment of the site.

Unlike most search engines, VIVOdisplays results with appropriate cross-referencing to place them in a contextthat makes sense. For example, a searchfor “proteomics” in VIVO will displaylistings for faculty members working in

the field at Cornell, classes related to thatsubject, recent articles published byCornell faculty, and some helpful onlineresearch tools. Each entry is linked directlyto the original resource, which could be thefull text of a recent journal article, a newgenomics service or a Web page describ-ing a faculty member’s research.

VIVO was developed by the library’sLife Sciences Working Group, a com-mittee of librarians and information tech-nology specialists from the Mann, Engi-neering, Entomology, Geneva, PhysicalSciences, Veterinary and Weill CornellMedical libraries. Bioinformatics/LifeSciences Librarian Medha Devare chairsthe working group. “As the university’sLife Sciences Initiative progresses, weplan to expand the array of resourcesavailable through VIVO,” Devare said.“We encourage faculty and students tocontact us with feedback and suggestionsfor new material to add to the site, orwhenever they need help using VIVO.”

For more information about VIVO,contact Devare at <mhd6@cornell.edu>or 255-2199.

Search engine for biologists ties together databasesBy Bill Steele

Not long ago a biologist had to under-stand Latin and memorize the vast arrayof Latin names for plants and animals.Today a biologist has to understand com-puter databases and work with the namesand numbers that describe thousands ofknown genes and proteins and their func-tions in living things.

Now a computational biologist atCornell has created a new tool that tiesmuch of this information together.Biozon, at <http://biozon.org>, is a sortof combination of Google andAmazon.com applied to databases of bio-chemical knowledge. Biozon allows re-searchers to search published data onDNA sequences, protein sequences, pro-tein structures, protein-protein interac-tions, cellular pathways and protein fami-lies, and provides tools to combine infor-mation from all these sources.

“Each biological entity can be viewedin its extended biological context, throughits relations to other biological entities,”

said Golan Yona, Cornell assistant pro-fessor of computer science, who is head-ing the Biozon project. For example,genes can be connected to the proteinsfor which they code, and to the biologicalprocesses in which those proteins partici-pate. A researcher might call up the struc-tures of proteins related to cancer, thenidentify the genes that code for thoseproteins. Or, to take a more technicalexample, search for “3D structures ofproteins that are involved in phosphory-lation interactions and are part of theProstaglandin and leukotriene metabo-lism pathway.” The results returned areranked, using a first-of-a-kind biologicalranking system that resembles the meth-ods implemented in Google.

Beyond complex searches, Biozonalso supports“fuzzy” searches that willfind things similar to the search key.There are tools that allow users to storequeries and download the resulting data.In addition researchers may incorporatetheir own datasets, allowing them tosearch and combine their own data and

public data, but without making theirproprietary data visible to others.

Biozon also includes analysis tools,such as methods for comparing proteinshapes or predicting what common build-ing blocks may appear in a protein basedon its amino acid sequence.

The searchable databases include some38 million nucleic acid sequences, 1.8million protein sequences, 28,000 pro-tein structures, 73,000 interactions, 2.25billion sequence alignments and 8 mil-lion structural alignments. Sources in-clude PDB, Genbank, Uniprot, KEGGand BIND, among others.

The information is stored in manydifferent formats. The secret of Biozon isits ability to read the many formats andtranslate the results into a model thatallows the datasets to be linked. Creatingthe infrastructure, the data model, thetransformation functions and the searchtools has required more than three yearsof work, Yona said, and it was the resultof a team effort, most notably involvingprogrammer/developer Aaron Birkland.

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BOOM ’05 fills Duffield Atrium with scintillating sights and soundsComputing projects span range of fieldsBy Alex Kwan

Hundreds of enthusiastic students filledthe Duffield Hall atrium March 9 with glossyposters and computer presentations forBOOM (Bits On Our Minds) 2005, an an-nual fair that showcases Cornell’s best stu-dent computing projects to the community.

BOOM 2005 boasted more than 50projects with the common theme of comput-ing. In between the expected projects ondatabases, programming and robotics, a fewdisplays demonstrated how computing couldbe applied in fields as diverse as biology,psychology, economics and even the arts.

The Genetic MusicComposer was a Java-based creation of Yash Parghi ’06, A&S,and Andrew Dailey ’06, A&S, which bringstogether computer science and music byintelligently composing short tunes. Usinga genetic algorithm, the program generatesrandom tunes and scores them based onsuch criteria as harmony and rhythm. In thenext stage, the most promising tunes areselected and recombined to make bettertunes. This process is repeated until a wor-thy tune emerges. “Our program will notproduce anything approaching a master-piece anytime soon, but our approach isvery open-ended and has great potential,”said Parghi.

While its tunes might not be ready for theconcert halls, Genetic MusicComposer wasa perfect fit at BOOM. The program creatednew tunes within seconds and played themthrough speakers. To have an objective feed-back for their work, the team set up a Webpage with five MIDI samples and askedparticipants to rate them on humanness andpleasantness. “The survey response varies.Some would say they couldn’t believe the

tunes were generated by a computer. Others,especially the musically trained, were disap-pointed at the music quality,” said Parghi.

Daniel Cohen’s project on solid freeformfabrication of tissue implants was an inter-disciplinary effort combining computing andmedicine. Cohen, a master’s degree studentin biomedical engineering, and his adviser,Hod Lipson, assistant professor of mechani-cal and aerospace engineering, made gantryrobots that deposit cell-seeded gels layer bylayer, following a pattern from computer-aided design drawings. When incubated un-der growth conditions, the cells consume thegel and form a structure made of living tissue.

“We can make these tissues in impres-sive geometries. Compared to the conven-tional fabrication methods using scaffold-ing, our technique is very efficient andquick,” explained Cohen. He also noted thattheir technique enables them to create tis-sues consisting of multiple types of materi-als. “Our eventual goal is to provide inex-pensive implants that are specific to theneeds of a patient,” he said.

This year was the ninth time that BOOMwas held, but it was the first time the eventwas held in Duffield Hall. The spaciousatrium provided the perfect venue for all thestudent projects to be displayed in one cen-tral location. In previous years, the eventspanned several floors in Upson Hall.

The BOOM 2005 Web site at <http://www.cis.cornell.edu/boom> contains linksfor all the exhibits. The event was organizedby the faculty of Computer and InformationScience and sponsored by Bloomberg andCredit Suisse First Boston.

Alex Kwan is a science writer intern withthe Cornell News Office.

Nicola Kountoupes/University PhotographyStudents flock to the different projects set up in the Duffield Hall atrium, thisone called “Physical,” during the BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) 2005 fair, March 9.The annual fair showcases projects in multiple disciplines that share a centraltheme of computing.

Aaron Nathan ’06, ECE, commands the movements of a minia-ture model of the vehicle that Cornell’s DARPA Grand ChallengeTeam is building for the challenge, a 175-mile race run by fullyautonomous vehicles that will be held in October. The teamuses the model as a prototype platform before implementingdifferent coding and sensors on the full-size truck.

Rafael Frongillo ’07, math and computer science, Arts and Sciences, poseswith one version of the Rubik’s Cube that his artificial-intelligence program cansolve. His was one of the numerous booths in Duffield Hall’s atrium during theBOOM fair March 9.

This was the first year BOOM exhibitors enjoyed one central location – the largeopen atrium of Duffield Hall. In previous years, the exhibits were spreadthroughout several floors in Upson Hall.

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those dealing with emotional problems, meetsSundays at 7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at St.Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave. For infor-mation, call Ed at 387-8257.

Pesticide Applicator’s UpdateThe College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’

Dean’s Office is sponsoring the annual PesticideApplicator’s Update March 22 in 146 MorrisonHall. The program will address regulatory compli-ance, liability and indemnification when using pes-ticides, pesticides and honey bees, and a progressreport on the Cornell Safety, Health and Environ-mental Management System. DEC registrationbegins at 8:30 a.m.; the program runs from 9 a.m.to noon. For more information, contact EricHarrington, 255-0485 or <eh22@cornell.edu>.

Maple Weekend at Arnot ForestCornell’s Arnot Forest is participating in the

statewide Maple Weekend celebration of the time-honored tradition of syrup production. Visit theArnot Forest March 19 and 20 for a pancakebreakfast, tours of the sugar house and sugarbush,children’s events and educational displays. Pan-cake breakfast is $5 for adults, $4 for children;other events are free. Dress for the weather. Fordirections, visit <http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/arnot>.

sportsBaseball

These games take place in Bradenton, Fla.:March 19, Illinois State, 5:15 p.m.March 20, Northwestern, 2 p.m.

March 21, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 10 a.m.March 22, Northwestern, 2:30 p.m.March 23, Illinois, 10:30 a.m.March 24, Ohio State, 2:30 p.m.

GolfMarch 18, Rider, at Orlando, Fla.

GymnasticsMarch 19, at Pennsylvania, 1 p.m.

Men’s HockeyMarch 18, Vermont, at Albany, 4:30 p.m.March 19, ECACHL Champs., Albany, 8 p.m.

Men’s LacrosseMarch 23, at North Carolina, 7 p.m.

Women’s LacrosseMarch 19, at Stanford, 7 p.m.March 22, at Ohio State, 1 p.m.

Men’s PoloMarch 18-20, Eastern Regional Champion-

ships, Ithaca

Women’s PoloMarch 18-20, Eastern Regional Champion-

ships, Ithaca

SoftballMarch 19-20, at Stetson Invit., Deland, Fla.March 21-25, at Rebel Games, Kissimmee, Fla.

Men’s Swimming & DivingMarch 24-26, at NCAA Champs., Minneapolis

Women’s Swimming & DivingMarch 17-29, NCAA Championships, W.

Lafayette, Ind.

Men’s Track & FieldMarch 19, at Long Beach Invitational, Long

Beach, Calif.

Women’s Track & FieldMarch 19, at Long Beach Invitational, Long

Beach, Calif.

WrestlingMarch 17-19, at NCAA Championships, St. Louis

1943 psychological profile of Hitleraccessible on CU Law Library siteBy Linda Myers

A rare 1943 document – a psychologicalanalysis of the personality of Adolph Hitlerthat predicted, among other things, his even-tual suicide – has just been made available tothe world at large on the Cornell Law Library’sWeb site, at: <http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/donovan/hitler/>.

The copyright to the original document –number three of only 30 copies made – wasgranted to the Law Library by Nina Murray,the widow of the document’s main author,Dr. Henry A. Murray.

Henry Murray was a pre-World War IIdirector of the Harvard Psychological Clinicand, during the war, served in the Office ofStrategic Services. The OSS was a forerunnerof the CIA and Murray was brought in byGeneral “Wild Bill” Donovan, then the OSSdirector. The psychological profile of Hitler isamong the papers in the Law Library’sDonovan Nuremberg Trials Collection.

“It’s almost a unique piece,” said ClaireGermain, the Edward Cornell Law Librar-ian and professor of law at the Law School.“Posting it on the Web in pdf format makesit available to a broader audience and showsthe depth and uniqueness of some of thevaluable bits of history located withinCornell’s walls,” she said.

The document has achieved new rel-evance, Germain said, because of growinginterest in the Holocaust, present-day warcrimes trials of past dictators such asSlobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein,and a controversial German documentary,

Kate Schlee/The Ithaca JournalA picture of Adolf Hitler’s mother adorns one of the pages in an earlypsychological analysis of Hitler, one of the many volumes included in the Gen.William J. Donovan’s Nuremberg Trials Collection. The volumes are housed inthe Dawson Rare Book Room of the Cornell University Law Library.

“The Downfall,” nominated for an Acad-emy Award this year that presents Hitler asa flawed human being, rather than a de-monic figure. The document may interestHolocaust and World War II scholars, mili-tary and psychology historians, studentsand the general public, she said.

Murray was commissioned in 1943 tohelp the Allied Forces understand Hitler’spsychological makeup in order to predicthis behavior as they pushed forward to de-feat the Nazis. The document is interestinghistorically in that it presents a range ofscenarios describing the potential effect onHitler of Germany’s defeat (Murray guessedhe might kill himself in a dramatic, explo-sive way but also worried that he might bemade into a martyr if he were killed). In-cluded in the document are suggested strat-egies to convert the German people, post-war, into, in Murray’s words, “a peace-loving nation,” a case history of Hitler byW.H.D. Vernon, who worked underMurray’s supervision, as well as copies ofrarely seen photos from Hitler’s life.

Murray, who gained fame when he de-veloped an early psychology technique foranalyzing personalities, wrote that Hitlerhad a personality type stimulated by real orimagined insult or injury, that held grudges,had a low tolerance for criticism, an exces-sive demand for attention and a tendency tobelittle, bully or blame others and seekrevenge. But his personality also manifesteda persistence in the face of defeat, along withstrong self-will and self-trust. However, Hitlerlacked “the offsetting qualities that round out

a balanced personality,” wrote Murray.“Even though psychology has moved

ahead, the document still gives some insightinto Hitler’s personality,” said Thomas Mills,a research attorney at the Law Library incharge of the Donovan collection and otherrare books and special collections.

Mills says he gets frequent requests fordocuments in the Donovan collection, whichincludes much on the Nuremberg war crimestrials of Nazi leaders. Recently a lawyerdefending a prisoner at Guantanamo askedif the rule imposed by the Bush administra-tion preventing him from meeting with hisclient had a precedent at the Nuremberg

trials. “Documents in the Donovan collec-tion seem to indicate that at Nuremberg thiswas not the case,” said Mills.

Murray himself was a controversial fig-ure. Returning to Harvard after the war, hewas involved in psychological experimentsin 1959-62 in which a stress test similar toone the OSS used to assess recruits wasadministered to unwitting student volun-teers, including the young TheodoreKaczynski, then a precocious student atHarvard. Kaczynski’s lawyers in his trial asthe Unabomber traced some of his emo-tional instability and fear of mind control tohis role as a subject in those tests.

ILR Kheel Center labor photos on Webgreat example of a successful grass rootseffort on this campus,” she said. “I hope it’sa raving success for Gimme and for theentire community.”

Gimme opened for business last weekand sales were almost as brisk as the airrushing through the breezeway betweenPlant Science and Mann. Snow still mantledthe outdoor tables and chairs that arrivedlast fall as part of the initial phase of con-verting the plaza. But it wasn’t too hard toimagine a day when fair weather will allowfor exactly what planners envisioned: acharming outdoor café enhanced by urbanlandscaping, art exhibits and, of course,some primo java.

“I think we are going to help achieve thecommittee’s objective of bringing this spaceto life,” said Kevin Cuddeback, owner ofGimme! Coffee. “And we tried to work outour business plan so there were some town-gown synergies in addition to our campuspresence. For instance, one percent of ourgross will go to Historic Ithaca.”

The effort is truly a cooperative venture.A committee consisting of about 15 faculty,staff and students brought the idea into

being and shepherded it through a variety ofunforeseen challenges over the last yearand a half, said McCouch. College of Agri-culture and Life Sciences Dean SusanHenry’s office provided financial support,as well as Mann Library administration and10 department chairs in the immediate vi-cinity of the courtyard. The site will be-come a major landscaping project for stu-dents in Horticulture and Landscape Archi-tecture, led by Nina Bassuk, professor ofhorticulture and Peter Trowbridge, profes-sor of landscape architecture.

Cuddeback calls the mobile coffee unitGimme V – it’s his fifth operation sinceopening the first Gimme shop at the cornerof Cayuga and Cascadilla streets in down-town Ithaca. Gimme! Coffee was first dis-tributed on campus in Statler Hall and inGoldwin Smith Hall’s Temple of Zeus café.

Transforming a trailer into an espresso-friendly unit took about six months of inten-sive labor. But the Courtyard Café probablywon’t be Gimme V’s permanent place ofbusiness. A future café is planned for MannLibrary, and once that is up and running,Gimme V will take its show on the road.

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A digital collection of more than 1,000photographs documenting the 95-year his-tory of the International Ladies GarmentWorkers Union (ILGWU) is now availableon the Web.

Drawn from among the 350,000 laborunion and work photographs held by theKheel Center for Labor-Management Docu-mentation and Archives at the CornellSchool of Industrial and Labor Relations’Catherwood Library, the images in thisdatabase may be searched at <http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu>.

The labor photos image database con-sists of photographs of work, union activi-ties and important events in American laborhistory. “The resources it makes availableare of potential interest to scholars of laborand working class history, gender studies,immigration and ethnic studies, and to unionmembers, students, teachers, filmmakers,artists and publishers,” said Richard Strass-berg, director of the Kheel Center and asso-ciate director of the Catherwood Library.

The project is designed to supportteaching and research at the ILR School.The images available in the labor photos

database are continually expanded to en-compass photographs from the center’svaried collections. Users of this databasecan save selected images for later reviewand order reproductions as digital files orphotographic reprints.

The Kheel Center, <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel>, is CatherwoodLibrary’s special collections unit and is oneof the country’s leading archives of indus-trial and labor relations, holding nearly 28million historical items. Its holdings in-clude the definitive historical records of 14international unions, including those of theILGWU, its sister union the AmalgamatedClothing Workers Union and the two unions’ultimate successor, UNITE-HERE. Centercollections are rich in background materialon pioneering federal regulatory and stateprotective labor legislation. Also availableat the center are the records of professionalorganizations in related fields as well as thepapers of more than 500 individuals promi-nent in the field of industrial relations.

For more information, contact BarbaraMorley, Kheel Center media curator, at<kheel_center@cornell.edu>.

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Maker of anthrax vaccine discusses challenges of marketing overseasBy Courtney Potts ’06

BioPort is the only FDA-licensed producer of the an-thrax vaccine.

On March 9, MBA students taking International Po-litical Risk Management, a course taught by ElenaIankova, a lecturer at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School ofManagement, heard Fuad El-Hibri, chairman and CEO ofBioport’s parent company, Emergent BioSolutions Inc.,discuss the hurdles his firm faces in making and marketingits products abroad.

His guest lecture was titled “Managing International Riskin the Bio-Defense and Telecommunications Industries.”

Using his own company as an example, El-Hibrioutlined six areas of risk in international business, amongthem export/import regulations, politics at home andabroad and financial issues. Much of his talk focused onpolitical issues ranging from export regulations to howto deal with foreign governments.

One hurdle: when BioPort sought to export its anthraxvaccine, BioThrax, the U.S. Department of Defense claimedthe vaccine was primarily of military importance andshould therefore fall under International Traffic in ArmsRegulations (ITAR). Under ITAR, export of the vaccine iscontrolled by the Department of State and a license isrequired for each sale. BioPort succeeded in arguing that itsproduct was non-military in nature and therefore belongedunder Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Exporta-tion under EAR is controlled by the Department of Com-merce and has far fewer restrictions.

El-Hibri seemed to take such challenges in stride. “Ob-viously,” he said, “the U.S. government is interested invaccines, especially bio-defense vaccines.” It controls whichcountries vaccines can be exported to and may use them asa bargaining chip in its own deals with foreign ministries ofdefense, he commented. “They like to throw our vaccineinto the mix and say, ‘Listen, if you buy one more tank or onemore fighter jet ... we’ll throw in 10,000 doses of anthraxvaccine,’” he said. But such giveaways create problems for

Kevin Stearns/University PhotographyFuad El-Hibri, chairman and CEO of EmergentBioSolutions Inc., speaks March 9 in Sage Hall.

companies like BioPort by reducing demand for its productsin foreign countries.

Some uncontrollable variables that affect the demand forvaccines are: Politics within the foreign country, the country’srelationship with the United States, its finances, its fears about

external threats and regional geopolitics, noted El-Hibri.He also repeatedly mentioned the importance of having

local connections. “It is critical that you appoint or partnerup with a local distributor,” he stressed. A local partner canhelp businesses stay abreast of the political situation andprovide valuable insight into local culture and customs, hesaid, noting that acceptable business practices often varywidely between countries.

For example, in many countries it is common practicefor businesses to offer bribes or gifts to government offi-cials in return for their assistance, he commented. Butunder U.S. law, it is illegal for American companies to doso, with stiff penalties for violations. While the restrictioncan be circumvented by giving small gifts, under $25 invalue, a better policy is to avoid gifts altogether, said El-Hibri, and instead get close to decision makers by develop-ing relationships with them, helping them solve some oftheir problems.

He also stressed that the media can be either an importantally or a formidable enemy. “Many of our competitors aren’tas media savvy as we are and that gives us an edge.”

Iankova later said of El-Hibri’s talk: “I was im-pressed because he’s put a lot of effort into addressingexactly the issues we addressed in class. [It was] veryhelpful for my students.”

Gligor Tashkovich ’87, MBA ’91, who worked with El-Hibri in the telecommunications industry and helped toorganize his visit to campus, called him “a brilliant busi-nessman and entrepreneur.”

And Herb Lara, MBA ’06, president of the Health Careand Biotechnology Club, a student group at the JohnsonSchool, enjoyed having the opportunity to hear El-Hibrispeak. “Bio-defense is something that’s not a widely avail-able topic for discussion, so it was definitely a big deal tohave someone of his stature come here to talk to us,” he said.

Before entering the biopharmaceutical industry 15 yearsago, El-Hibri worked at Citicorp and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Courtney Potts is an intern with the Cornell News Office.

Idea for sustainably made drugs wins $10,000 inJohnson School’s Business Idea CompetitionBy Linda Myers

An idea by a Cornell chemistry professorand his student team won $10,000 as thefirst-place winner in the 2005 Business IdeasCompetition (BIC) at Cornell’s JohnsonGraduate School of Management. The teamplans to make medi-cations through envi-ronmentally friendlyprocesses that createless waste and costless than standard ge-nerics. A low-cost ver-sion of the antidepres-sant drug Prozac willbe the first product.

The yearly compe-tition is sponsored by BR Ventures (BRV),a student-run venture capital group at theJohnson School that invests in early-stagebusinesses. In addition to $10,000 fromBRV, the winner gets 20 hours of free legalassistance – an estimated $4,000 value –from Cornell’s Entrepreneurship Legal Ser-vices (ELS), a group staffed by Cornell lawstudents who help start-up businesses.

The idea for the winning business, to becalled Sustainable Pharmaceutics, was putforth by Tyler McQuade, an assistant pro-fessor in chemistry and chemical biology,and his research team of graduate students:Kristin Price, Steve Broadwater, MurisKobaslija and Brian Mason.

In the world of drug manufacturing, for

every pharmaceutical agent made, 25 to 100kilograms (53 to 220 pounds) of waste isproduced, according to a recent article inGreen Chemistry, said McQuade. “We’vecome up with a process that’s expected toreduce waste by five-fold and costs by twoand a half-fold,” he said.

“Pharmaceutical companies claim theycan recycle waste but recycling is enor-mously energy intensive and, in my opin-ion, is a bad model because it creates somuch waste and gives people a false sense”that they are not harming the environment,said McQuade. “Why not, instead, cut backon wasteful processes?” he asked.

He explained: “Solvents are where mostof the waste is generated.” To cut back ontheir use, he and his team developed a tech-nology in which catalysts in the manufac-turing process are encapsulated – not unlikecatalysts in natural biological processes – toprevent them from harming other catalysts.The results: less waste and less money spentgetting rid of the waste.

McQuade said he was inspired to createa sustainable manufacturing process whenhe read a book about it, Cradle to Cradle:Remaking the Way We Make Things, byWilliam McDonough and MichaelBraungart. “It got me thinking about how tobe an environmentally conscious innova-tor,” he said.

The second-place winner in the competi-tion went to an idea for a business dubbedIlluminaria, of Ithaca, which aims to manu-

facture portable biosensors for point-of-carediagnostics that can quickly detect biologi-cal threats, including pathogenic bacteriasuch as anthrax. The team, led by ScottStelick, a Cornell master’s of engineeringgraduate, received $2,500.

The third-place winner was a plan forOTS Diagnostics of Ithaca, which seeks tomake hand-held electronic kits that diag-nose different diseases simultaneously andinstantly. The team, led by current JohnsonSchool MBA student Andreas Wankerl, re-ceived $1,000.

The winners were selected from sevensemifinalists February 24 in Sage Hall, by apanel of venture capital industry experts.Entrants were asked to submit a two-pagedescription of their business idea. Judgingwas based on the viability of the ideas andtheir attractiveness to investors. This year103 entries were received, 16 from outsidethe Cornell community.

BRV members are second-year MBAstudents who are well-versed in venturecapital and entrepreneurship. The Cornelllaw students who staff ELS are led byZachary Shulman, the J. Thomas Clark Se-nior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Per-sonal Enterprise at the Johnson School. TheJohnson School also runs a business incuba-tor, the Big Red Incubator (BRI). The triadof entrepreneurial services, consideredunique on a college campus, may lead tomany innovative, viable new businesses inthe upstate New York region.

McQuade

BRIEFS■ WMD awareness training: RobertHolt, director of the Office of Campus Safetyat Ithaca College, and Curtis Ostrander,interim director of the Cornell Campus Po-lice, have announced they will be hosting aone-day course dealing with Weapons ofMass Destruction (WMD) Awareness train-ing. It will be held on the Ithaca Collegecampus in the Emerson Suites of PhillipsHall Wednesday, April 20, from 8:30 a.m. to4:30 p.m. This course has been designed forall campus public safety personnel whomight participate in response to a WMDincident. Upon successful completion, par-ticipants will receive a certificate of atten-dance and documentation for ContinuingEducation units. This training is funded bya grant from the federal Department ofHomeland Security. There will be a $15charge for lunch and coffee breaks For moreinformation, contact Sgt. Phil Mospan at255-8952 or <pdm3@cornell.edu>.

■ Hans Bethe DVD now available:The Cornell Store is offering “QuantumPhysics Made Relatively Simple: Personaland Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe,”now available on DVD for $19.95. Get acopy at the book information desk or orderit by e-mail at <store@cornell.edu>. Alower-resolution streaming video is avail-able online at <http://bethe.cornell.edu>.Several additional streaming videos ofBethe’s lectures and interviews will beposted at <http://ifup.cit.cornell.edu/bethe/> within the next two weeks.

David Barbano wins Haines award for contributions to dairy science

Barbano

By Susan S. Lang

The California Dairy ResearchFoundation (CDRF) recently pre-sented Northeast Dairy Foods Re-search Center Director and CornellProfessor David Barbano with the in-augural William C. Haines Dairy Sci-ence Award in recognition of his con-tribution to the field of dairy science.

“I can’t think of a better choice to receive the first WilliamC. Haines award than Dave Barbano,” said Joseph O’Donnell,

executive director of the CDRF. “Throughout his career, Davehas made numerous contributions that have had a direct,beneficial impact on the dairy industry – from leading theNortheast Dairy Foods Research Center to training thedairy scientists of tomorrow. His dedication to the field ofdairy science is the perfect embodiment of this award.”

Barbano, a faculty member in the Department of FoodScience at Cornell since 1980, has served as the director ofthe Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center since its incep-tion 17 years ago. His current research focuses on improvinganalytical testing methods for the measurement of fat,protein, lactose and solids content of milk and other dairy

products; the influence of mastitis and milk somatic cellcount on dairy products’ quality and yield; factors influenc-ing manufacturing costs for cheese and whey products;improving natural cheese quality, production efficiency andyield through process control; and the utilization of lowconcentration factor casein concentrates from microfiltrationfor cheese making and milk serum protein concentratesfrom microfiltration in beverages.

Established in 2004, the William C. Haines Dairy ScienceAward was created to recognize individuals who have made asignificant contribution to dairy science and the betterment ofthe dairy industry and consumers of dairy products.

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exhibitsJohnson Museum of Art

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on thecorner of University and Central avenues, is openTuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464.

• “Taboo and Transgression in ContemporaryIndonesian Art,” through March 20.

• “Material Matters,” through March 20.• “Elana Herzog,” through March 27.• “Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving

Image,” through May 15.• Art for Lunch: March 17 from noon to 1 p.m.,

curator Andrea Inselmann will lead a tour of theexhibition “Material Matters.”

Kroch Library, Hirshland Gallery(9 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F; 1-5 p.m., Sat.; closed

Sun.)“The Passionate Collector: Willard Fiske and

His Libraries,” through May 28.

Mann Library(8 a.m.-midnight, M-Th; 8 a.m.-6 p.m., F; noon-

5 p.m., Sat.; and noon-midnight, Sun.)“Freehand Drawing at Cornell: Selection of

Student Illustrations Since the 1920s” is on view atthe first floor of the Mann Library addition throughMarch 31.

Olive Tjaden Hall Gallery(8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday)Recent paintings by Erik den Breejen, through

March 18.

filmsFilms listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema

and held in Willard Straight Theatre, except wherenoted, and are open to the public. All films are $6($4.75 for undergraduates and seniors; $4 forCornell graduate students and kids 12 and under).

Thursday, 3/17“Moog” (2004), directed by Hans Fjellestad, with

introduction by Professor Trevor Pinch, 7:15 p.m.“Dig!” (2004), directed by Ondi Timoner, with

Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Mas-sacre, Courtney Taylor and the Dandy Warhols,9:15 p.m.

Friday, 3/18“Festival Express” (2003), directed by Bob

Smeaton, with Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead andThe Band, 7 p.m., Uris.

“Tom Dowd and the Language of Music” (2003),directed by Mark Moormann, with footage of RayCharles and Aretha Franklin, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, 3/19“Callas Forever” (2004), directed by Franco

Zeffirelli, with Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons,7:15 p.m.

“Dig!” 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, 3/20“Moog,” 7:30 p.m.

Monday, 3/21“Tom Dowd and the Language of Music,”

7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, 3/22“Callas Forever,” 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 3/23“Moog,” 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, 3/24“Callas Forever,” 7:30 p.m.

lecturesCity & Regional Planning

“From the Socialist to the Post-Socialist City:

Transformations in Spatial Structure and BuiltForms in Sofia, Bulgaria,” Sonia Hirt, University ofToledo, March 18, 12:20 p.m., 335 Baker Hall.

Southeast Asia Program“Extraordinary Times in Sumba, Indonesia:

Moral Economy, Crisis and Subsistence,” Chris-tian Lentz, development sociology, March 17, 12:20p.m., Kahin Cener, 640 Stewart Ave.

University Library“What Can Universities Do to Promote Open

Access?” Peter Suber, Scholarly Publishing andAcademic Resources Coalition (SPARC), March17, 10 a.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.

Wellness Program“Turn Distress Into De-Stress With Massage,”

Matty Termotto, March 24, noon, G10 Biotechnol-ogy Building.

musicDepartment of Music

March 17, 12:30 p.m., B20 Lincoln Hall: MiddayMusic at Lincoln: Augustus Arnone, piano, featur-ing Roberto Sierra’s Piezas Imaginarias and twoétudes by David Rakowski.

‘Bound for Glory’March 20 and 27: Albums from the studio.

“Bound for Glory” is broadcast Sundays from 8 to11 p.m. on WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5.

religionSage Chapel

No service March 20.

African-AmericanSundays, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.

Baha’i FaithWeekly prayer circle open to all faiths, spon-

sored by the Baha’i Club, held Sundays at 11 a.m.at 630 Stewart Ave. All are welcome.

Baptist Campus MinistryWeekly Bible study meets Wednesdays at 8

p.m. in 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. For informationcontact Keith Bowman at <kcb29@cornell.edu> or277-2283.

Buddhist• Meditations: Monday, Wednesday and Thurs-

day, 12:15-1 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Tay-lor Hall.

• Zen Meditation practice is Mondays andWednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Founders Room,ATH. Instruction is required before attending. Forinformation, call Anne Marie at 273-4906.

Campus Crusade for ChristWeekly large group meets Fridays at 7:30 p.m.

in B14 Hollister Hall.

CatholicSunday Mass schedule: 10 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.,

Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium; 9:30 p.m., SageChapel.

Daily Masses: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-days at 12:20 p.m., ATH Chapel; Tuesdays andThursdays at 5:15 p.m., ATH Chapel.

Christian ScienceTestimony meetings: Thursday, 7:30 p.m.,

Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Church ser-vices: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays,7:30 p.m., First Church of Christ Scientist, 101University Ave., Ithaca.

Cornell Christian FellowshipThe InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7:30

p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Forinformation visit the Web site at <http://www.ccfiv.org>.

Episcopal (Anglican)Wednesdays, worship and Eucharist, 5 p.m.,

Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sundays, worship and Eu-charist, 9:30 a.m., ATH Chapel. For more informa-tion, call 255-4219 or send e-mail to<eccu@cornell.edu>.

Friends (Quakers)Meeting for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m., Edwards

Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For information visit<http://www.quaker.org/ithaca/> or call 273-5421.

Grace Christian FellowshipThe InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7

p.m., B11 Kimball Hall. For more information visitthe Web site at <http://www.curw.cornell.edu/gcf>.

HinduWeekly religious service is Saturday at 4 p.m.

in the Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, followedby a Gita reading at 5 p.m.

Jewish• Conservative: Fridays, 6:15 p.m., Founders

Room, Anabel Taylor Hall; Saturdays, 9:45 a.m.,Founders Room, ATH.

• Reform: Fridays, 6:15 p.m., Chapel, AnabelTaylor Hall.

• Orthodox: Friday, Center for Jewish Living,call 272-5810 for weekly times; Saturday, 9:15a.m., Edwards Room, ATH.

Korean ChurchSundays, 11 a.m., One World Room (in En-

glish), and 1 p.m., chapel (in Korean), AnabelTaylor Hall. Call 255-2250 for more information.

Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Cornell student branch: Sundays at 9 a.m. Call

257-7313 for information.

LutheranCampus ministry at St. Luke Church, 109 Oak

Ave., in Collegetown, Sundays, 10:45 a.m. and 5p.m. Bible study Tuesday, 7 p.m. For more infor-mation call 273-6811 or e-mail <rlb8@cornell.edu>.

MuslimDaily congregational prayer at 218 Anabel

Taylor Hall. Weekly Juma’a Prayer, Friday, 1:20p.m., One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.

Weekly coffee hour Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., TowerCafé, Uris Library. For more information visit theWeb site: <http://www.meca-online.org/>.

PaganFor information call CURW at 255-4214.

Protestant Cooperative MinistrySunday service at 11 a.m. in Anabel Taylor

Chapel.

seminarsAfrican Development, Institute for

“The Millennium Development Goal for theAlleviation of Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition inSub-Saharan Africa: Could It Be Achieved?” PerPinstrup-Andersen, nutritional sciences, March 17,12:20 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.

Astronomy & Space Sciences“The Anatomy of a Solar Mass Protostar on

Solar System Size Scales,” Claire Chandler, NRAO,March 17, 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences.

Biogeochemistry & EnvironmentalBiocomplexity

“Sources, Concentrations and Processing of OldCarbon in River Systems,” Peter Raymond, YaleUniversity, March 18, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.

Biomedical Sciences“Ca2+ and cAMP Signaling in Sperm,” Donner

Babcock, University of Washington, March 22, 4p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology“NO and Oxygen Sensing: A Molecular Per-

spective on Ligand Discrimination in Biology,”Michael Marletta, University of California-Berke-ley, March 21, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Laboratory.

Cornell High Energy SynchrotronSource

“Mixing X-rays and Laser Light: A Nove. Recipe,but Does It Taste Good?” Ken Finkelstein, CHESS,March 18, 2:30 p.m., 380 Wilson Laboratory.

Cornell Institute for Public Affairs“Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms,”

Kaushik Basu, economics, March 17, 4:30 p.m.,100 Caldwell Hall.

Crop & Soil Sciences“Carbon Stabilization in Biogenic Nano-

structures,” James Kinyangi, and “Impact of ForestDegradation on Hydrologic Processes in SouthernIndia,” Vishal Mehta, March 17, 12:20 p.m., 135Emerson Hall.

Infection & Immunity“Regulation of Memory T Cell Differentiation

and Cellular Immune Responses to RespiratoryInfection,” Hao Shen, University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Medicine, March 18, 12:15 p.m., BoyceThompson Institute Auditorium.

International Nutrition“Priorities for International Agricultural Re-

search: A CGIAR Science Council Initiative,” PerPinstrup-Andersen, March 18, 3:30 p.m., 135Emerson Hall.

Lab of Ornithology“Assembly of the North American Songbird

Fauna,” F. Keith Barker, Bell Museum of NaturalHistory, March 21, 7:30 p.m., Lab of Ornithologyauditorium.

“Appalachian Treasures,” a multimedia pre-sentation focusing on the social and environmen-

tal impacts of mining in Appalachia, will be March23 at 7 p.m. at the Lab of Ornithology.

Materials Science & Engineering“Bio-Inspired Syntheses of Composite Materi-

als: A View From the Organic/Inorganic Interface,”Lara Estroff, Harvard University, March 17, noon,140 Bard Hall.

“Novel Properties of Nanotube-Filled PolymerMaterials,” Jan Obrzut, NIST, March 17, 4:30 p.m.,140 Bard Hall.

Molecular Biology & Genetics“Self-Renewing Mechanism of Stem Cells in

the Germline,” Haifan Lin, Duke University, March18, 4 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.

Molecular Medicine“Fragile X Protein Couples to Cell Polarity

Complexes,” Daniela Zarnescu, Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine, March 24, 3:30 p.m., LectureHall III, Veterinary Research Tower.

Peace Studies Program“Faltering Hopes: Why International Law Is in

Trouble,” Jeremy Rabkin, government, March 17,12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.

Plant Biology“PRPs: Extracellular Matrix Proteins Important

for Root Hair Cell Function,” Mary Tierney, Univer-sity of Vermont, March 18, 11:15 a.m., 404 PlantScience Building.

miscellanyAlcoholics Anonymous

Meetings are open to the public and will be heldMonday through Friday, 12:15 p.m., in AnabelTaylor Hall. For more information, call 273-1541.

Early Childhood Center Open HouseCornell’s Early Childhood Center is holding an

open house March 26 from 10 a.m. to noon inMartha Van Rensselaer Hall, ground floor. Appli-cations will be available for fall 2005. Childrenmust be 3 years old. Parking by building.

Emotions AnonymousEmotions Anonymous, a 12-step program for