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2005 Cornell United Way campaign to celebrate its success

The 2005 Cornell University United Way Campaign closes a very successful fund-raising effort with a celebratory luncheon Tuesday, March 7, at noon in the Duffield Hall atrium.

Gannett Health Services' 'Smart Women' media campaign targets alcohol use by Cornell's undergraduate women

An increase in high-risk drinking among Cornell's undergraduate women has led to a media campaign designed to reduce both the incidence and the consequences of high-risk drinking, particularly among women. The "Smart Women"…

Weiss Presidential Fellows nominations deadline is March 8

Faculty, academic staff, and junior and senior students have until March 8 to submit nominations for the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows Award. Established by the Board of Trustees in 1992, the award recognizes tenured…

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…