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Pest management award goes to innovative apple grower who promotes low-risk strategies

George Lamont's best new idea in apple growing is one he can't sell other growers on. But it has cut his herbicide bill "drastically," he says. He hit on the idea about 10 years ago, after he pushed a probe into soil to test for…

Katherine Reagan named Stern curator of rare books

Katherine Reagan, curator of rare books in the Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections since 2000, has been named the Ernest L. Stern '56 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the next five…

Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer, even if they don't have symptoms

NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2006) -- Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer even if they don't have symptoms, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell…

Now world has access to 10-second evidence that ivory-billed woodpecker lives

Ten seconds of video that rocked the world of ornithology - featuring a fuzzy but painstakingly analyzed ivory-billed woodpecker sighting - is now available on the Web site of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology

'Smashing success' as Mosaic New York City conference brings together alumni of many backgrounds

NEW YORK -- An alumni-driven event to celebrate diversity and advance inclusion, the Cornell Mosaic @ New York City conference, drew about 130 alumni and guests to the Cornell Club on Feb 4. Organizer Renee Alexander '74, Cornell…

Center for Learning and Teaching improves how students learn and instructors teach

Regularly scheduled help sessions for such large, introductory science courses as biology, chemistry and physics ... free tutoring ... free workshops on how to improve study skills ... a van service for students with physical…

Three CU students and one coach are competing on snow and ice at Turin Olympics

When the 20th Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy, on Friday, Feb. 10, the Cornell community will be rooting for three of its own: undergraduates Jamie Silverstein and Travis Mayer and law-student-to-be Matt Savoie. Ice…

Previous pandemic in 1918 recalled as Cornell plans for possible avian flu threat

As avian flu spreads among bird populations throughout Asia and eastern Europe, accounting for close to 90 human deaths so far, health officials at Cornell University are working out details of an emergency plan for campus in the…

Cornell inventors get lots of help with patents -- but not every idea leads to pot of gold

"Be it known that I, EZRA CORNELL, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and state of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine or Implement for Laying Metallic Pipes in the Earth, which I denominate 'Cornell's Improved…

Microsoft funds a new high-performance computing institute for computational biology at Cornell

Microsoft is funding a Microsoft Institute for High-Performance Computing at Cornell with annual funding of $400,000, renewable each year for an indefinite period. The new institute will greatly expand the ability of researchers…

Betty Friedan, women's movement icon, taught at Cornell and led seminars on working family issues

Betty Friedan, the outspoken advocate for women's rights who died Feb. 3 in her Washington, D.C., home. She was 85.

Willard Straight gallery to exhibit Terry Plater's art

Terry Plater believes being successful as an artist isn't merely a matter of accomplishment, but "a lifelong goal." "All of the things I have studied, all the work I do feeds my spirit (and my art), in addition to giving me the…