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Students produce magazine about Cornell – in Mandarin

“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.

Sociologist studies China’s transition to market economy

Victor Nee, director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, has received a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study capitalist institutions in China.

Method to find bad mutations may improve maize crops

Cornell researchers have developed a way to predict bad mutations in the maize genome, addressing a major challenge for breeders trying to grow better crops and feed rising populations.

Steven Strogatz wins Lewis Thomas science writing prize

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. He will be honored at a March 30 reception at Rockefeller University.

Beating bird wings generate electricity for data collector

A technology that generates electricity from the beating wings of birds, bats or even moths could produce enough power to run a device that collects data used by biologists.

Scientists sequence genome of classical Hodgkin lymphoma

A team of researchers has sequenced the genome of classical Hodgkin lymphoma, illuminating exactly which proteins are altered in individual patients. The findings could pave the way to delivering personalized treatments.

Views diverge on U.S. Middle East policy in Lund Debate

The 2015 Lund Critical Debate March 3 brought a former U.S. ambassador to the Middle East and a scholar together to debate whether U.S. policy in the region works.

Statler Hotel wins fifth consecutive AAA Four Diamond Award

The Statler Hotel won the AAA Four Diamond Award for the fifth year in a row, one of 14 lodging establishments in central and western New York to receive the honor.

Ecological corridor to preserve Ecuadorian Andes bears

A Cornell research team is joining local efforts to help design a socio-ecological corridor that could help save endangered, threatened, endemic species in Ecuador's Andes region.

New pest-fighting, yield-boosting alfalfa to help farmers

Three new varieties of alfalfa developed over many years at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences combat devastating pests, increase yields and improve forage quality.

Popular origami pattern makes the mechanical switch

Reporting in Nature Materials March 9, Cornell physicists have made a mechanical switch out of the origami folding pattern known as the square twist.

One fractal quantifies another, mathematicians find

Cornell mathematicians offer a new way of seeing the Abelian sandpile fractal, by quantifying how its formation depends on its original square grid.