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NSF grant plants seeds for building better fruit trees

Assistant professor of horticulture Kenong Xu is one of the leaders of a joint Cornell-USDA research team looking to uncover genes that control branch growth in fruit trees. The team received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Movin' on up: Startup 'graduates' from McGovern incubator

Agronomic Technology Corp. is the first business to "graduate" from the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences, which held a celebration of this milestone Jan. 8 in Weill Hall.

Study shows how to open wallets of Web-surfing TV watchers

Good news for the advertising industry: Television viewers surfing the Web during commercial breaks are often triggered by TV ads to visit product websites and make purchases, according to new study.

New tech application keeps bacteria from sticking to surfaces

Researchers from Cornell and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new type of nanoscale surface that bacteria can’t stick to, which could be good news for the food processing, medical and shipping industries.

Cornell anthropologist Bernd Lambert dies at 82

Bernd Lambert, an authority on kinship among Pacific islanders of the Republic of Kiribati and professor of anthropology emeritus, died Jan. 3, 2015 at his Ithaca home. Lambert joined Cornell faculty in 1964.

Book offers advice for and by academic leaders

The new book "Academic Leadership in Higher Education: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up," co-edited by Cornell professor Robert Sternberg, offers advice for new faculty administrators.

Psychology professor Robert Elliott Johnston dies at 72

Robert Elliott Johnston, professor of psychology, died Dec. 20 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He researched animal behavior and the mechanisms of behavior in a naturalistic or evolutionary context.

TCAT bus routes to change beginning Jan. 11

After analyzing ridership data and bus routes, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has released winter/spring 2015 schedule modifications, which include changes for some campus routes. Service revisions take effect Jan. 11.

Visiting historian to teach course on Civil War this spring

Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, prize-winning author Douglas Egerton will share his expertise on this critical period in U.S. history as Cornell’s Merrill Family Visiting Professor.

New archive from Jewish Babylonian exile released

The first extra-biblical archive from the exiled Judean community in Babylonia in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. has been published as part of a series edited by Cornell professor David I. Owen.

High-temperature superconductor 'fingerprint' found

Theorists and experimentalists working together at Cornell may have found the answer to a major challenge in condensed matter physics: identifying the smoking gun of why “unconventional” superconductivity occurs.

Students survey urban aesthetics in Southeast Asia

Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.