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News and Events 2009

• Cornell partners with Indian university to offer innovative degree in food science:
  
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March08/Foodscience.India.lm.html


• Haley Oliver selected as 2009 Graduate School degree marshal

     http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/HaleyOliver.profile.tb.html 

News and Events 2008
 

• Cornell food scientists awarded $1.67 million to improve fresh food safety.

          http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov08/FoodSafetyGrant.html

News and Events 2007

• Cornell Chronicle Online:  CU Food Scientists keep watch over New York dairy foods

          http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept07/foodscience.safety.mw.html

News and Events 2006

• Kathryn Boor receives the DeLaval Dairy Extension Award July 2006

           http://www.adsa.org/awards/06press/06_DeLaval_Boor.pdf

• What's lurking in your refrigerator can be a serious 'public health problem,' Cornell professor says.

           http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March06/Boor.cover.sh.html

News and Events 2005

• Cornell researcher helps lead $2 million project to prevent Listeria contamination in ready-to-eat foods.

           http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec05/listeria_grant.bpf.html

 
News and Events 2004

• Once discovered, deadly Listeria can continue to contaminate food in stores and plants for a year or longer, CU researchers find

• Deadly food pathogen can live for a year

News and Events 2003

• FSL becomes Santa for students at P.S. 79 in New York City!
  (Before), (After)

• Discovery that deadly listeriosis often occurs in clusters could help in finding sources and saving lives, Cornell scientist says
  Cornell Chronicle: CU food scientists find that cases of listeriosis often occur in clusters

• Martin Wiedmann receives the 2003 Samuel Cate Prescott Award

• Kathryn Boor participates in new Life Sciences Initiative Forum in Boston

• Martin Wiedmann part of a new $6.6 million Zoonosis Research Unit to be established at Cornell
  Cornell Chronicle:NIH funds support new food- and waterborne disease research unit at CU

• Kathryn Boor's Milk Quality Improvement Program names top 2003 fluid milk producers in new York state
  Cornell Chronicle:Cornell's food science testers pick New York's top milk producers

News and Events 2002

• Marie Yeung wins Chinese Food Society Graduate Student Scholarship
• Marie Yeung wins IFT 2002 Food Microbiology Division Oral Competition and takes 2nd place in IFT Graduate Paper Competition
• Cornell Food Science Undergraduate and Kathryn Boor Advisee Travis Mayer wins Olympic silver medal
  Cornell News "Travis Mayer wins a silver"
  

News and Events 2001

• Christmas presents from the Food safety lab delivered to school class in NYC
  (second picture)
• CTC Computational Biology Service Unit Researchers Help Develop Novel Database that Tracks Path of Virulent Bacteria
• Database for tracking virulent bacteria was developed by students - Cornell Chronicle article
• Novel database that tracks path of virulent bacteria via the web is developed by consortium of Cornell students - Cornell press release
• Wendt's Dairy of Buffalo selected for best milk in New York state by testers at Cornell
• DuPont/Qualicon hosts Cornell Summer Scholars Program
• Cornell scholars spend summer studying food acids and microwaves and classifying deadly bacteria
• Investigating the Deadliest of all Foodborne Bacteria (Daily University Science News, Feb 12, 2001)
• CU researchers win $1.2 million 4-year grant to learn how deadly Listeria bacterium travels.

News and Events 2000

• Molecular subtyping by the Cornell Food Safety Research Group headed by Martin Wiedmann contributes to the detection of another multistate human listeriosis outbreak. For more information see MMWR Weekly: December 22, 200; 49(50); 1129-1130: Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis -- United States, 2000.
• CU led Listeria Outbreak Group  Wins Prestigious USDA Award
• New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research representatives visit Food Safety Laboratory.
• Kathryn Boor receives 2000 Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition AwardKathryn Boor was honored by receiving the Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Award which honors people in the Cornell community who have made positive contributions to women or women's issues. It is named in honor of Constance Cook, Cornell's first woman vice president, and the late Alice Cook, a professor emerita of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations who was one of the first tenured female faculty members at the university as well as a founding member of the Cornell's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (ACSW).
  
• New graduate program in Food safety
  Cornell offers new interdisciplinary graduate training program in food safety.
  For more information see News Releases
  Date posted: February 4, 2000

News and Events 1999

• Top Milk Processors rated by CU Food Scientists September, 1999
  Cornell Chronicles on Milk processors rating.
• Cornell Experts on E. coli outbreak  September 1999
  Cornell News Release about E. coli outbreak

News and Events 1998

• Safer Food and Water of the New Millennium- Symposium 3-4 November 1998
  Cornell Chronicles about the Symposium
• Food safety laboratory contributes to the detection of a multistate human listeriosis outbreak in 1998/1999
  Cornell Chronicles on the Outbreak
  Free Press Article on the Outbreak
• Cornell Food Scientist Names top Milk Processors September 1998
  Cornell News Release this event

News and Events 1997

• Robert Ralyea receives U.S. Army's Meritorious Service Medal March 1997
  Cornell News Release about Robert's success