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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.

ROTC dog-tag ceremony brings closure to a family, 35 years after death in Vietnam

U.S. Army PFC Douglas Jay Crawford, killed in action in Vietnam in 1971, received a final homecoming on Feb. 23 when Cornell University's U.S. Army ROTC presented his long-lost identification tags to his surviving family members…

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…

Africana library supports wide research

The library at the Africana Studies and Research Center is named in honor of John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998), the distinguished historian who was instrumental in establishing the Cornell's Africana curriculum in the 1970s. The…

From anti-slavery collections to papers of early black alumni, library collections support Africana studies year-round

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections This 1986 photo of students at the Urban Day School in Milwaukee, Wis., is from the records of the Institute for Independent Education. Copyright © Cornell University February is Black…

From fly flight and black holes to world hunger, AAAS meeting covers deadly serious to fun of science

ST. LOUIS -- There were plenty of reasons to camp out inside the cavernous America's Center convention hall in St. Louis last weekend. They included in-depth discussions on biological imaging, black holes and the evolution of the…

Two Cornell-related PBS documentaries to air on local stations

Two documentaries "Alpha Phi Alpha Men: A Century of Leadership" and "Cornell: Birth of the American University," both Cornell-related, will air on local PBS TV stations beginning this weekend. "Alpha Phi Alpha Men" is a history…