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Female gene changes post-sex may lead to mosquito controls

Genetic cues from male mosquitoes passed on during sex affect which genes are turned on or off in females post-mating, offering clues for controlling mosquitoes that carry diseases.

With songs, stories, students honor Garrett's legacy

Holding candles flickering in the twilight of March 8, hundreds of students gathered on Ho Plaza to honor Cornell's 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, who died of colon cancer March 6.

Cancer research fund set up at Weill Cornell in honor of Garrett

On March 8, Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, announced the launch of the President Elizabeth Garrett Fund for Colon Cancer Research.

Remembering the 'vital,' 'optimistic' Elizabeth Garrett

Cornellians and colleagues on campus and from across the country reflected on the passing of President Elizabeth Garrett, who died March 6 after a battle with colon cancer.

On slavery and literature in Cuba

Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.

Dance festival evokes colorful, lurid Mardi Gras

New Orleans surrounded by excess and humanity is the theme of this year's Locally Grown Dance Festival, created by dance senior lecturers Byron Suber and Jumay Chu, March 17-19 at the Schwartz Center.

Aching examines black bodies, Black Lives Matter

In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Online Learning offers 'any study, any time, anywhere'

After a year of work, the Cornell Online Learning Community has helped to advance e-learning offerings from Cornell.

Acts of defiance in Nazi Germany topic of Cornell talk

Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.

Newell Rubbermaid CEO to give Durland Lecture March 14

Michael B. Polk ’82, president and chief executive officer of Newell Rubbermaid, will deliver the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s 28th Durland Lecture Monday, March 14.

Online reviews only partially reveal what hotel customers think

Cornell researchers have come up with a text-mining method of analyzing online customer reviews, which they have found do not tell the full story of how guests view a hotel.

Two women faculty receive inaugural Schwartz awards

Two researchers have received inaugural awards from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women in the Life Sciences, endowed by Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65.