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In the stealth of night, EzraNet upgrades building networks

It's 3 a.m. Night blankets the slumbering campus. The silence is broken only by the plodding of the occasional weary student bound for home. Comstock and Olin halls, though, are abuzz with people drilling, driving screws,…

Garden Mosaics Kit on sale: Includes interactive DVD, poster, colorful science pages and more

Cornell University and the American Community Gardening Association are offering for sale the Garden Mosaics Kit, which includes an award-winning interactive DVD and program manual for educators, a poster and many other science…

A case for brains: Cornell's cerebral display gets refurbished home

The showcase exhibiting eight brains from Cornell's Wilder Brain Collection on the second floor of Uris Hall has been redesigned, restaged and relighted, thanks to the volunteer efforts of two undergraduate students, Bernadette…

Slope Day 2006: 'It's all downhill from here'

If there is a perfect day for donning a giant black wig, racing your friends down a hill on giant bouncy balls, having your roommate shave your head in a reverse Mohawk, strolling along Ho Plaza with a red foam finger on one hand…

Supreme Court unanimously backs Cornell Law Professor John Blume's argument in death penalty case

On May 1 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Holmes v. South Carolina, endorsing the arguments made by John Blume, associate professor at Cornell Law School and director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, who…

Grand jury indicts sophomore in stabbing incident

A Cornell sophomore who allegedly stabbed a visiting Union College student on West Campus Feb. 18 has been indicted for a hate crime assault by a Tompkins County grand jury. Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson…

Lee C. Lee, Asian-American studies pioneer, dies at age 70

Lee Charlotte Lee, 70, professor emerita of human development and of Asian-American studies at Cornell University, died unexpectedly April 30 at her home. The first woman professor of Asian ancestry at Cornell, Lee was an expert…

National biotech meeting to be held at Cornell, June 12-14

The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC) will hold its 18th annual meeting at Cornell, on the Ithaca and Geneva campuses, June 12-14. The meeting, "Agricultural Biotechnology: Economic Development Through New…

Biological sciences program at Cornell jumps to seventh in national graduate school rankings

Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences has risen significantly in rankings by U.S. News and World Report in its "America's Best Graduate Schools 2007" annual report, released April 14. The report placed Cornell…

Biological sciences program at Cornell jumps to seventh in national graduate school rankings

Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences jumped from 14th in the nation to seventh in U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Graduate Schools 2007' annual report. (May 4, 2006)

Internet data streaming into Cornell will provide new insights into social networks

Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael…

From Paul Whiteman to Humanities in Medicine, Al Gallodoro plays all that jazz

NEW YORK -- To shut one's eyes was to be transported back to a dark table in a corner of the El Morocco nightclub during the late 1930s. The mournful yet soaring opening of "Rhapsody in Blue," played by jazz virtuoso Al Gallodoro…