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Number of U.S.-Based Published Science Articles Hits a Plateau

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The face of scientific publishing has changed dramatically in the past 15 years. While it was formerly common to see only two names on a research paper, now one is likely to see an article listing up to 12 authors.
The need for increased collaboration and the rising cost of doing research have contributed to the plateaued number of science and engineering journal articles from the U.S. since the 1990s. This is a marked contrast from the previous two decades, which saw a rise in publication numbers. This unexpected development led the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resource Statistics to produce a quantitative study of the patterns and trends of U.S. journal articles from the past 15 years.

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Apple Fever Hits the Ithaca Community

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“Never again!” said Jesse Simons grad, after participating in the 25th Annual Apple Harvest Festival’s apple pie eating contest. Simons ate eight slices of pie in two minutes, making him the winner of his round. However, he won’t be giving up apple pie all that soon.
“I think I’m eating more tomorrow actually, someone’s making me pie in celebration,” Simons said.
The Apple Harvest Festival began in 1983 and was first managed by Jean Demming, then Com­mons Coordinator. The festival, which ran from Friday to yesterday, took over the downtown Commons area with an array of food, music, dancing and, of course, apples.
“We have every kind of apple thing you could ever think of,” said Katie Clapp, events coordinator for the Ithaca Downtown Partnership.

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Cisneros Writes to Make Peace — With Self and Others

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Sandra Cisneros does not only tell stories in her fiction, she carries them with her on her skin — she has a tattoo on her left arm she calls “the Buddhalupe,” a female version of Buddha, with a third eye on the figure’s hand to remind her to always “look deeply.”
“[It wasn’t] so bad,” she recalled of the day she got the tattoo. “Love hurts more than that.”
Students, faculty and other fans of Cisneros filled Schwartz Auditorium last Thursday, sitting on the floor in front or standing in the back to listen to her stories and essays as part of the Fall 2007 Reading Series.

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C.U. Team Enters Auto X Prize Contest

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With the average U.S. car getting about 21 miles per gallon, drivers might be gas-guzzling the way to a warmer and smoggier future. In an effort to revolutionize the way we think about our cars, the Automotive X Prize (AXP) Foundation is offering a multi-million dollar prize to the first team to design a 100 mile per gallon or fuel equivalent car and present a viable business plan to sell 10,000 of these cars. Cornell is the only academic institution to have entered out of the 31 teams intended to compete. Other competitors include Tesla Motors, creators of the fully electric Tesla Roadster sports car and ZAP Motors, makers of the Smart Car. However, thus far no large automakers have entered the X Prize competition.

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Cornellians Compete to Create Most Efficient Consumer Car

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With the average U.S. car getting about 21 miles per gallon, the country might be gas-guzzling our way to a warmer and smoggier future. In an effort to revolutionize the way we think about our cars, the Automotive X Prize (AXP) Foundation is offering a multi-million dollar prize to the first team to design a 100 mile per gallon or fuel equivalent car and present a viable business plan to sell 10,000 of these cars. Out of 31 teams to sign a letter of intent to compete, Cornell University is the only academic institution to have entered at this time. Other competitors include Tesla Motors, creators of the fully electric Tesla Roadster sports car and ZAP Motors, makers of the Smart Car. However, thus far no major name automakers have entered the X Prize competition.

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Mayor Declares May 8 ‘Dead Day’

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Peterson’s proclamation honors Grateful Dead’s ’77 C.U. concert

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s May 8, 1977 performance at Barton Hall, Mayor Carolyn K. Peterson has declared next Tuesday, May 8, to be ‘Grateful Dead Day’ in the City of Ithaca.


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Asia Night Features Food, Entertainment

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This Saturday at Barton Hall, over 50 Asian organizations from across campus came together to celebrate the many facets of Asian culture — dancers twirled ribbons and flipped through the air as guests browsed the interactive cultural booths while munching on pad Thai or sipping bubble tea.


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Warsaw Ghetto Victim Speaks to C.U. Students

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In 1943, at only five years of age, Bill Donat was separated from his family in Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto and cast into the arms of strangers to protect him while war ravaged the city around him. Donat spoke to the Cornell community last night about his experiences in the ghetto, as well as finding refuge in a Catholic orphanage. The event was sponsored by Students for Tolerance, Awareness and Remembering Survivors and the Cornell Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.


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African Women Face Postpartum Risks

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Each year, 50,000 to 100,000 women develop a condition called fistula after prolonged childbirth, a post-natal result that hardly occurs in the United States any longer but continues to be a severe problem in many developing nations. Last Saturday, Dr. Karolynn Echols ’89 came to speak about her experience treating fistula in West Africa and how it inspired her to create Medicine in Action (MIA), a non-profit healthcare organization focused on underserved women’s health issues. Dr. Echols was the keynote speaker for Skee-Week 2007, sponsored by the Mu Upsilon chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha.


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C.U. Scientists Aim to Spot Rare Woodpecker

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When looking for a needle in a 550,000 acre haystack, otherwise known as the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, it takes a collaborative effort from top ornithologists and engineers. This is especially true when the needle is the ivory-billed woodpecker, one of the world’s rarest and most elusive birds. The last uncontested sighting of the bird was in 1944.