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CUAUV wins RoboSub competition

Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project team won first place for the second consecutive year at the RoboSub student competition in July.

Things to Do, Aug. 2-23

Events in August include Latin dance parties, free concerts and movies, an exhibition of art by Cornell botanical illustrators and a two-day workshop for grape growers and startup wineries.

Cities adopt law professor's plan to fix mortgage crisis

Law professor Robert Hockett's plan for cities to address underwater mortgages is being adopted across the country.

Cornell named a mentoring center by Sloan Foundation

Cornell has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to become one of three new University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced.

Panel calls for protecting world's largest forest

At least half of Canada’s 1.4 billion acre boreal forest, the largest remaining intact wilderness on earth, must be protected to maintain the area’s current wildlife and ecological systems, according to a recent report.

Versatile polymer film synthesis method invented

Materials researchers have devised a so-called hierarchical porous polymer film synthesis method that may help make these materials useful for applications ranging from catalysis to bioengineering.

SnapDragon and RubyFrost are new apple varieties

The two varieties have been a decade in the making, and how they’ve gone to market is a first for the Cornell apple-breeding program and the New York apple industry.

Sander pens book on 'Finland's proudest hour'

Historian Gordon F. Sander '72's book, "The Hundred Day Winter War," is a comprehensive account of Finland's heroic stand in 1939-1940 against the Red Army.

Venice exhibit aims to keep island afloat

An an exhibit curated by a Cornell art history professor focuses on the threat of rising ocean waters to the nation of Tuvalu this summer at the Venice Biennale.

Saturn moon's mystery plume influenced by tides

Cornell astronomers have determined that the plume erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus is influenced by tidal forces from Saturn.

First black Law School grad was a former slave

George Washington Fields, Cornell Law School's first black graduate in 1890, was a former slave who became a successful lawyer despite becoming blind.

University presidents urge closing of 'innovation deficit'

Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”