2 Chilled water plant Cornell open house 7 CHRONICLE Genetically engineered plants Conference on cheese 7 biotechnology Volume 19 Number 8 October 15, 1987 Theory Center may be moved to Grumman site Cornell administrators announced today members, and local officials and citizens ciates of New York City, has been asked to ing Dean William B. Streett by members of that they have asked the architects for the concerned about the location of the building include space in the building that would be the engineering faculty, who saw it as an proposed College of Engineering/Theory adjacent to the gorge. lost by demolishing Grumman. opportunity to improve the overall quality Center building to explore the possibility of The new plan would place the building at Critics of the university's earlier plans had of space in the College of Engineering and moving the building away from Cascadilla least 20 feet from the tree line at the top of expressed concern that erecting the building provide a solution to aesthetic and campus- Gorge by demolishing Grumman Hall and the gorge; thus, no trees in the gorge would near the bank of the gorge might affect the planning issues. constructing the building on that site, con- be removed for the building or for the con- ecology of the gorge and represent an unac- "This proposed solution presents consid- necting the building to the south end of struction site, according to John F. Burness, ceptable visual intrusion in this undeveloped erable difficulties for the university, in par- Upson Hall. vice president for university relations. area. ticular for a number of outstanding faculty The new plan came as a result of a series In addition to studying how to construct Dislocation would be minimized in the College of Engineering whose work of meetings involving university officers, the building on the site of Grumman Hall, Burness said that the possibility of demol- in Grumman Hall would be severely dis- faculty, Cornell Plantations advisory board the architect, Gwathmey Siegel and Asso- ishing Grumman was presented to Engineer- Continued on page 7 Programs to showcase Cornell partnerships with corporations Business education Industry research Executives of corporations that support Several hundred corporate executives will the Johnson Graduate School of Manage- gather here Oct. 2122 for the most exten- ment will spend Oct. 15 on campus discuss- sive showcase Cornell has yet mounted of ing advances in business education with its research partnerships with industry. faculty and students of the Johnson School. The program for "University-Industry The school also has invited representa- Collaboration at Work at Cornell" will tives of firms interested in establishing rela- include discussions of industry-sponsored tions with the school. work in agriculture, biotechnology, mate- More than 50 business executives are rials, microelectronics, manufacturing, man- expected to hear a series of faculty lectures agement, supercomputing and a host of and participate in informal discussions, said other areas. Paul Brenner, the school's director of cor- The week of Oct. 18 24 also includes porate relations. several other gatherings of Cornell's indus- The second annual Partners Day pro- trial partners — including affiliates of the gram will deal with global competitiveness, Biotechnology Program, the Cornell Manu- marketing, organizational behavior, facturing Engineering and Productivity Pro- accounting, executive development and gram (COMEPP), and the Materials other topics. Science and Engineering Program. "This is an important opportunity for the "Cornell is among the top universities in corporate community and the school to the country in terms of corporate funding exchange ideas in order to best serve the for research and education, and this needs of corporations and M.B.A. students unprecedented array of conferences high- in today's dynamic marketplace," Brenner lights the remarkable range of corporate said. involvement," said Joseph M. Ballantyne, Commenting on last year's Partners Day, vice president for research and advanced Gordon B. Asher Jr. of Texas Instruments studies. "From what we can tell, Cornell Inc. said: "Exposure to the school's goals also appears to have a wider variety of cor- and faculty was very good. It is obvious porate interactions than any other why Johnson School M.B.A.s are actively university." pursued by major companies." Robert W. Staley, executive vice presi- 136 corporations contribute dent of Emerson Electric Co. and a 1959 According to Ballantyne, about 136 cor- graduate of the Johnson School, will deliver porations contribute more than $70 million the keynote address at dinner. in research and education funds to Cornell Marcy Dubroff Emerson has supported the school's in fiscal 1987. This figure, however, does The Big Red Bear gets a lift from the crowd during the Homecoming football interdisciplinary approach to solving manu- not include the large amount of corporate game last Saturday. Cornell's 29-17 victory over Harvard gave the team a 2-0 facturing problems in a program which support to Cornell in the form of gifts of standing in the Ivy League and 3-1 overall. Homecoming coverage continues on includes working with experts in the College equipment and personnel, he said. page 3. of Engineering and other Cornell "Our affiliations with industry run the departments. — Albert E. Kajf gamut from large-scale sponsorship by sin- gle major corporations to much more mod- est partnerships with startup companies," Ballantyne continued. He said that International Business Cornell, union reach agreement on wages Machines Corp.'s sponsorship of Cornell's supercomputer center represents an example Cornell's service and maintenance John F. Burness, vice president for uni- principles underlying its negotiating posi- of large-scale funding, while smaller-scale workers voted Saturday morning to accept versity relations, said during a press confer- tion. Each side bargained in good faith. partnerships might be exemplified by the the university's latest wage offer and end ence Saturday afternoon that Cornell Ultimately, at the table where such decisions 40-member consortium supporting Cornell's their four-day strike. But the president of officials "are confident that, building on this must be made, an agreement was ham- Program on Submicrometer Structures their union indicated that efforts to improve year's agreement and through good-faith mered out with the help of a federal rPROSUS). wages and working conditions would con- negotiations at the bargaining table, we will mediator." The two-day conference will be held at tinue during next year's talks for a new be able to reach an equally productive He also extended the "very sincere grati- the Sheraton Inn in Ithaca and will open contract. agreement." tude" of President Frank H.T. Rhodes, the with a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Buddy The two sides were negotiating only to He said the new agreement benefits not trustees and the entire university community McKay (D-Fla.) on American competitive- establish pay scales which would be effective only "the valued employees" involved, but "to those employees who chose to work ness. Cornell and industry representatives for one year from last July 1 under a wage- "our students, the faculty and their fellow during the strike, often under difficult cir- then will discuss research at COMEPP, the reopener clause in the current contract, employees." cumstances." Then he said, "To those Cornell Consortium for Continental Reflec- which will expire on June 30. Negotiations Burness noted that the settlement fol- employees who chose to honor the picket tion Profiling, and the National Nanofabri- will begin in several months on a complete lowed what "have not been easy negotia- lines, we welcome you back. We need you." cation Facility. Through displays and collective bargaining agreement. tions. Each side felt strongly about the Continued on page 8 Continued on page 2 2 October 15, 1987 Notable Cooling Cornell costs less now Briefs Cornell utilities engineers are hoping for a two other features of the new system. First, David K. Bandler, professor of food warm reception when they unveil a high- a device called a plate heat exchanger is • Emeritus professor association to meet science, has received the International Asso- efficiency chiller to increase cooling capacity mounted in the cooling system to take Oct. 22: The Association of Cornell Univer- ciation of Milk, Food & Environmental at campus facilities by 44 percent. advantage of one free commodity in winter- sity Emeritus Professors will hold its fall Sanitarians' 1987 Educator Award. The Open house tours of the $5.3 million. time Ithaca cold air. When outside air is meeting at 4 p.m. on Oct. 22 in Helen award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, 4,000-ton system are scheduled from noon cold enough, the electrically driven chiller Newman Hall. The program will include a recognizes Bandler for excellence "in all to 5 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the Chilled Water docs not need to operate at all. Also, talk by Ravindra N. Sudan, deputy director three areas of responsibility at Cornell — Plant No. 3, adjacent to the Central Heat- variable-speed water-distribution pumps can of the Theory Center, who will discuss the teaching, research and extension." Bandler, ing Plant near the corner of Dryden Road respond to changing cooling demands by center, its scope and the supercomputer. All 54, joined the Cornell faculty in 1965 as an and Route 366 in Ithaca. adjusting their flow and horsepower. This academic staff who retire after 10 years of extension specialist in the Department of "Cornell's demand for cooling will have optimizes electricity consumption. service and administrative staff awarded Food Science. Before that, he had served increased as much as 40 percent between The new chiller is a Carrier Corp. Model emeritus status are eligible for membership for nine years as director of the New York 1986 and 1988 due to the construction of 17DA, which cost $1.4 million.