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Cornell Law Professor John Blume to argue death penalty case before U.S. Supreme Court

Cornell Associate Professor of Law John H. Blume was scheduled to argue a case involving the death penalty before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22. In the case, Holmes v. South Carolina, Blume, the director of the…

Bettina Wagner receives USDA grant to improve vaccine development

Bettina Wagner, assistant professor of population medicine and diagnostic sciences and a veterinary immunologist in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has been awarded $344,000 over three years as part of a $2.1…

At 27,000 pictures a second, researchers discover that Earth's turbulence stirs things up more slowly than expected

In a simple world rivers would flow in straight lines, every airplane ride would be smooth, and we would know the daily weather 10 years into the future. But the world is not simple -- it is turbulent. That's good news, since…

Educator and farmer win excellence awards for pest management

Educator Maire Ullrich, who consults on vegetable crops for Cornell Cooperative Extension, and farmer Jeff Kubecka of Kirkville, N.Y., have both won Excellence in IPM Awards from the New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM…

Wortham museum chronicles Cornell's military history

The Wortham Military Museum at Cornell University is not a secret. But neither is it a household name. Located on the fourth floor of Barton Hall and overseen by Cornell Army ROTC, the museum was established in 1973 with a…

Lakhdar Brahimi, former top U.N. envoy, delivers Bartels Lecture on Iraq March 2

Former top United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will deliver the annual Bartels Fellowship Lecture Thursday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, on the Cornell University campus. Brahimi's talk, "Iraq: The…

Physicist's algorithm simplifies biological imaging -- and also solves Sudoku puzzles

Veit Elser, Cornell professor of physics, has found that an algorithm developed to process X-ray diffraction data also solves Sudoku puzzles. (Feb. 26, 2006)

Cornell Innovation Center helps an onion jelly maker market her products nationally and globally

Allison Sacheli at the Canandaigua Farmers Market.POTTER, N.Y. -- When the demand for her onion jelly grew way beyond family and friends, Allison Sacheli needed help adapting her recipe for commercial production. That help came…

Cornell leaders concerned about effects on student aid, research from Bush's proposed U.S. budget

Cornell administrators are concerned about proposals in President George W. Bush's proposed fiscal year (FY) 2007 budget regarding student financial aid and research in agriculture and the biological sciences. The president's…

Invasive wasp, Southern Hemisphere forest devastator, found to be 'well-established' in upstate New York

Last year while sifting through insects from a trap from Fulton, N.Y., E. Richard Hoebeke, discovered a single specimen of an alien woodwasp that devastates conifers.

President Rawlings announces Feb. 28 discussion for Cornellians concerned by stabbing

Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings will host an informal discussion for concerned members of the Cornell community on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to address issues of concern and other responses to this past weekend's campus stabbing…

Q&A: Larry Walker calls for a 'Manhattan Project' for energy in biofuels

Kevin Stearns/University PhotographyBehind Professor Larry Walker is a large bale of switchgrass, one of several possible alteernative fuel sources. Copyright © Cornell UniversityIn his State of the Union speech last month, U.S…