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Friends honor the late pioneering geneticist Ray Wu

Ray Wu was 'a true visionary,' said friend and colleague Ajay Garg at a June 15 memorial service honoring the late Cornell geneticist. (June 16, 2008)

Cornell student Douglas Lowe '11 drowns in Fall Creek

Cornell student Douglas Lowe, Class of 2011, age 18, of Shelton, Conn., drowned June 12 in the turbulent waters of the Fall Creek Gorge. (June 13, 2008)

NBA star players make winning coaches, study shows, as example of how experts make the best leaders

Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)

Cornell Hillel awards 2008 Tanner Prize to Irwin Jacobs '54 and family

Irwin '54 and Joan Jacobs '54 and their son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs, are the recipients of this year's Tanner Prize for significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell.

Cornell to close East Avenue, June 16-21, for physical sciences building project

East Avenue from University Avenue to Tower Road will close beginning 6 a.m., Monday, June 16, until 6 p.m., Saturday, June 21, to facilitate the physical sciences building construction project. (June 12, 2008)

Deputy Provost David Harris to present seminars on social inequality to alumni

David Harris, deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences at Cornell, will present a discussion on poverty and inequality, 'Opportunity 101: What Affects Access,' June 18 in New York City. (June 12, 2008)

Cornell engineering students at Lockheed Martin launch record-breaking balloon

The early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin, also Cornell systems engineering master's students, broke the previous amateur altitude record by nearly 5,000 feet. (June 12, 2008)

Internal Transfer Division Director Vivian Geller reflects on three decades of serving Cornell students

Vivian Geller, director of Cornell's Internal Transfer Division for nearly 30 years, reflects on her career and on working closely with Cornell students. (June 12, 2008)

Retaining top talent

Why do employees leave? John Hausknecht, of the ILR School, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Harrah's Entertainment surveyed 2,500 hospitality employees to find out. (June 12, 2008)

Employee Assistance Program and medical leaves offices move to Community Corners

The Medical Leaves Administration and the Employee Assistance Program will be at Community Corners effective July 1. Their old phone numbers will work for several months. (June 12, 2008)

Meeting to consider tree planting as antidote to urban ills is uprooted by 'inconvenient conclusion'

Horticulturist Tom Whitlow reported at a Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC conference that planting trees as a strategy for reducing asthma 'is unlikely to work.' (June 11, 2008)

Estrogen may play key role in prostate cancer, WCMC researchers find

Using a new technique to extract genetic information from stored samples, researchers discovered a link between estrogen-dependent molecular pathways and a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. (June 11, 2008)