For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)
Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 National Book Award in poetry for her recent collection 'Open Interval.' (Oct. 19, 2009)
Cornell's innovative Silo House earned a seventh-place finish in the biennial Solar Decathlon competition, held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 16, 2009)
The newly formed Strategic Plan Advisory Council will synthesize recommendations gathered from the Cornell community into a draft strategic plan. Town meetings will be held in January and February, and a draft issued in March.
In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate. (Oct. 12, 2009)
The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets. (Oct. 12, 2009)
Charles Aquadro, professor of molecular biology and genetics, researches how fruit flies provide clues to humans' own genetic footprints of adaptation. (Oct. 12, 2009)
In a talk at Cornell Oct. 8, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union said that protecting civil rights has improved in the age of Obama, but that it's not yet 'mission accomplished.' (Oct. 12, 2009)
