Microsoft fellowship supports advertising auctions research

Computer science graduate student Renato Paes Leme has been awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship to pursue research that may make online advertising a bit more efficient and profitable. (Feb. 16, 2011)

Fred Schneider elected to National Academy of Engineering

New students entering Cornell in the fall will read and discuss E.L. Doctorow's 'Homer and Langley,' a 2009 historical novel based on the lives of New York City's reclusive Collyer brothers. (Feb. 10, 2011)

AguaClara to bring more water treatment plants to Honduras

A committee of City of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)

Spacecraft and comet fated for Valentine's Day rendezvous

Cornell has received a 2011 ENERGY STAR CHP (combined heat and power) Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for the campus's highly efficient CHP system. (Feb. 8, 2011)

Choices -- not discrimination -- determine women scientists' success, researchers say

Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)

Four N.Y. companies receive JumpStart grants

It's not discrimination, but rather differences in resources attributable to career and family-related choices that set women back in science fields, Cornell researchers say. (Feb. 7, 2011)

Five Cornell scientists to speak at AAAS

A research group in Spain has ranked Cornell the No. 5 university in the world for its Web presence, which includes electronic access to scientific publications and other academic material. (Feb. 7, 2011)

Sustainable energy systems minor now offered

Two professors disagreed with a war veteran over what the United States should do next in Afghanistan. Their roundtable discussion took place Jan. 31 in the A.D. White House. (Feb. 2, 2011)

'Cornell Dots' that light up cancer cells go into clinical trials

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial in humans of brightly glowing 'Cornell Dots' to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. (Jan. 31, 2011)