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Cornell-created computer games on display, Dec. 5

Help inept Munchkins avoid disaster. Play cooperatively with friends, then eat their brains. Throw squirrels at annoying students on Ho Plaza. All that and more in the upcoming Game Design Showcase.

Scholarship as sculpture: Loan your books by Dec. 8

Hundreds of books by Cornellians have been collected for the Humanities Book Art Project, but more are needed to build a sculpture that represents the reach and impact of Cornell scholarship.

Particle physics pioneer Bernard Gittelman, Cornell professor emeritus, dies at 74

Bernard Gittelman, who helped design the first colliding beam device in the 1950s, died Nov. 25. The cause of death was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig's Disease).

Amid growth boom, planners work to address issues of creating a model, more pedestrian-friendly campus

Decade of Challenge: This article looks at how transportation planners are working to address problems of making campus both parking- and commuter-friendly. (Nov. 30, 2006)

Two rapidly evolving genes offer Cornell researchers clues to why hybrids are sterile or do not survive

While hybrids -- the result of the mating of two different species -- may offer interesting and beneficial traits, they are usually sterile or unable to survive. For example, a mule, the result of the mating of a horse and a…

ILR symposium launches 2006-07 student internship program to study unemployment

An interdisciplinary symposium of Cornell faculty will help launch the 2006-07 Department of Labor-Alliance of Prevention of Unemployment (DOL-APU) student internship program Friday, Dec. 1, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the School of…

On visit to Cornell, Israeli elder statesman Peres sees technology at work and points to it as a key to peace

Israeli elder statesman and former prime minister Shimon Peres stressed the role of science, technology and innovation in a global economy as a key to peace in the Middle East in a public lecture in Bailey Hall on Nov. 28. …

An advocate for refugees, alumna Elisabeth Becker wins Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University

Elisabeth Becker '06 has won a 2007 Marshall Scholarship that she will use at the University of Oxford, England, starting in October 2007.

At 70, composer Steve Reich '57 gets the recognition he deserves

Contemporary composer Steve Reich -- pronounced WRY-sh -- is having a good year.In addition to tributes at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Cornell alumnus, Class of '57, who turned 70 on Oct…

Charles Williamson, expert in fluid dynamics, is New York's Professor of the Year

Charles H.K. Williamson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a popular Cornell teacher, has been named New York state's top professor by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council…

Suspended student pleads guilty to hate crime in stabbing case

Nathan Poffenbarger, a suspended sophomore in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations who stabbed a visiting Union College student on West Campus early this year, pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime Nov. 22 in…

Too few doing too little to relieve dire situation in Darfur, former special U.N. adviser Brahimi warns

With 300,000 Sudanese dead, a third of the population displaced and cries of genocide ringing fiercely, the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, has recently come to the forefront of the international political scene.