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Cornell Formula SAE team wins 'Toronto Shootout'

Cornell's Formula SAE team took first place in the fifth annual University of Toronto Shootout, Sept. 16, a regional race for student-built and -driven race cars.The Cornell team, whose primary mission is to build and drive a car…

New device from CU physicist tests uncertainty principle to unprecedented level -- and shows that looks can cool

ProvidedA scanning electron microscope image of an aluminum and silicon nitride resonator coupled to a superconducting single electron transistor (SSET). Researchers watched the resonator move through a phenomenon known as…

Cornell's free online 'eClips Career Corner' provides job-hunting advice from industry experts

Job hunters can "eClips" the competition and make a great impression at that job interview with help from a free searchable database that's like having a virtual army of consultants at their command.Called Cornell's eClips Career…

Africana Center hosts symposium on power and nationalism in Africa

Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center and Institute for African Development will host a symposium, "Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa," Sept. 22-23 at 310 Triphammer Road. The conference is free and open to the…

'Wearable art' exhibit shows off student-created pieces

"Wearable" headphones and ear pads, dresses designed with the idea that "decoration may be transmittable," much like microbial infection, and a shoe design based on sea urchin shells are just three of the nine wearable art pieces…

Morten Christiansen awarded Ryskamp fellowship

Morten Christiansen, Cornell associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a 2005-06 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Christiansen was selected from a pool of 161…

A fish called Suarez is named for biomedical professor

When a fish is named after you, your name is immortalized in the taxonomic record of vertebrates, which represents just 3 percent of all animal species.That's the honor that has been bestowed upon Susan Suarez, Cornell professor…

Hot flies produce cool results -- the ability to watch genes activating in live tissue

Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue.

With Homeland Security grant, Cornell seeks to sort facts from opinions

What are newspapers around the world saying about the latest speech by President George W. Bush? More importantly, how much of what they are saying is factual and how much opinion? And down the line, are some of the opinions…

Constitution Day observed at Cornell

Geoffrey Gray, Hotel '08, places copies of "The United States Constitution: What It Says, What It Means" and a one-page handout about Constitution Day on the bed in a room at the Statler Hotel Friday, Sept. 15. The guides and…

Journalist-authors tell harrowing tale of kidnapping in Iraq -- and the grassroots struggle for release

After Micah Garen '94 was kidnapped with his translator, Amir, from a market in southern Iraq on Aug. 13, 2004, it was largely the work of his now-fiancée Marie-Helene Carlton and the grassroots efforts she led across the world…

Sunny side up: Cornell's solar house landscaping wins national award

The Cornell student-designed and -built solar house has won a student 'Award of Honor' from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its functional landscape.