Olyha, Shearer win Marshall Scholarships

Two graduating seniors with records of excellence in undergraduate research, athletics and community service, Samantha Olyha and Emily Shearer, are heading to Oxford as Cornell’s 2014 Marshall Scholarship recipients.

American historian Michael G. Kammen dies at 77

Michael G. Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of American history at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died Nov. 29 in Ithaca.

Red Hot Hockey offers ‘mini-reunion’ in Big Apple

Although the Cornell men’s hockey team fell to Boston University at its biennial contest at Madison Square Garden Nov. 30, the sold-out crowd, including thousands of Cornellians, partied before and after the game.

Civil rights activists to be honored at local gala

Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Biotech awards plant seeds for New York startups

Six new technologies received 2013 Center for Advanced Technology awards for feasibility and proof-of-concept research to enhance the commercial value of such innovations.

Facebook supports open-source software course

Students in "Open-Source Software Engineering" work with industry mentors and worldwide teams on real-world projects.

Jesuit: God and science are not incompatible

A Jesuit priest argued that faith can inform science rather than impede it in the semiannual Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society on campus Nov. 11.

New website is 'one-stop shop' for climate change info

The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.

Cushing Strout, professor emeritus of English, dies

S. Cushing Strout, professor emeritus in the Department of English, died Nov. 21 in Ithaca at age 90.