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Come play Cornell-designed computer games

Sit down and play computer games and explore 3-D interactive environments that you have probably never seen before. Try out new, motion-sensitive game controllers not yet commercially available. Families and children are welcome…

Redesigned CUinfo is place to go for news about campus concerns

Like Star Trek, CUinfo continues to please fans by returning again and again in new versions. Its latest incarnation, redesigned by the Cornell Office of Web Communications (OWC) and Cornell Information Technologies to conform to…

Decades of acid rain is causing loss of valuable Northeast sugar maples, Cornell researchers warn

Acid rain, the environmental consequence of burning fossil fuels, running factories and driving cars, has altered soils and reduced the number of sugar maple trees growing in the Northeast, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.

Cornell-Caltech Atacama telescope promises clues about formation of the universe

The Atacama region of northern Chile is one of the highest and driest places on Earth -- a contradictory landscape of parched ground, cool salt lakes, archaeological treasures and the occasional startling band of hot-pink…

Does general relativity have limits? Jim Cordes looks for answers in the universe's most hostile environments

In the years since Einstein published his theory of general relativity -- in which he proposed that gravity, traditionally considered a force, is actually a manifestation of curved space and time -- the theory has been tested and…

State budget includes $5 million for New York Farm Viability Institute

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Cornell University-affiliated New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI) will receive $5 million through the 2006 New York state budget to continue producing significant impacts for New York farmers,…

Learning and giving: Cornell student 'philanthropists' get hands-on experience by handing out $10,000

While many final projects at Cornell this semester involve producing a research paper, students in Brenda Bricker's Leadership in the Nonprofit Environment (HumEc 407) class get to give away money.As part of the course, which…

Kids Growing Food produce gardens in some 300 schools across the state

On P.S. 84's rooftop in New York City, students tend an herb garden and share the harvest with school staff and others in their lunchroom. At an elementary school in Van Etten, N.Y., second-graders grow their own "vegetable soup"…

Mothers and daughters are separated by discord over clothes, weight and hair, says linguist Deborah Tannen

When people ask author and linguist Deborah Tannen, What is it about mothers and daughters and why do they have so many problems, especially since they are both women, the answer she gives them is, "Because they're both women."…

Teenagers who cut or burn themselves find support on the Internet, but also share 'toxic' information, Cornell study finds

Some 500 Internet message boards are bringing together adolescents who injure themselves -- with cuts, carvings, scratches or burns. It is a world that is invisible to adults but of increasing importance to teenage social lives. …

Retiring music professor David Rosen to be honored at symposium

Music Professor David Rosen, a noted Giuseppe Verdi expert who retires from Cornell at the end of this semester, will be honored by former students and past and current colleagues at an all-day symposium. The event, "The…

Cornell study of ancient volcano, seeds and tree rings suggests rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean history

ProvidedTrenchmaster Vronwy Hankey and foreman Antonis Zidianakis excavate storage jars from the Minoan settlement Myrtos-Pyrgos. The jars were analyzed in the Cornell study using radiocarbon analyses.Separated in history by 100…