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Emeritus professor and alum Edgar Rosenberg dies at 90

Edgar Rosenberg, a literary scholar and friction writer and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Cornell, Dec. 19 in Cayuga Heights, New York, at the age of 90.

Program keeps New York roads safer, less expensive

Cornell Local Roads Program (CLRP) provides training and technical assistance to address maintenance of roadways and bridges across New York state. CLRP signed a new three-year to continue its work.

Former law school dean Gray Thoron memorial is Dec. 19

A memorial service for Gray Thoron, professor emeritus and former dean of Cornell Law School, will be held Saturday, Dec. 19, at noon at Sage Chapel.

Mural spans wall and 375 million-year avian history

On Dec. 15, science illustrator and artist Jane Kim completed the only known mural in the world with paintings that encompass all families of birds on one wall.

December graduation features record number of participants

Nearly half of the more than 900 January degree candidates took part in the Dec. 19 recognition ceremony, held before thousands of family and friends in Barton Hall.

Philandering prairie voles cued by genes, brains, environment

Genes can be influenced by such environmental factors as population density, and cheating voles have more reproductive success when the population is high.

Polymer breakthrough could revolutionize water purification

A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry.

Creativity leads to measuring ultrafast, thin photodetector

A Cornell graduate student employed two-pulse photovoltaic correlation to measure the speed of his team's ultrafast photodetector in research published in Nature Communications, Nov. 17.

New Institute for Food Safety to fight foodborne illness

The Institute for Food Safety at Cornell, announced Dec. 15 with a $2 million state grant, establishes a comprehensive center that connects training and research to check foodborne illness.

Two juniors receive Harry Caplan Travel Fellowships

This year's Caplan Travel Fellowship winners are Christopher Erdman '17 and John Hall '17, who will each use their $4,000 award to study and conduct research in Italy.

Robots learn by watching how-to videos

Cornell researchers are teaching robots to watch instructional videos and derive a series of step-by-step instructions to perform a task.

MPA, Peace Corps announce fellows program

Cornell's MPA program, offered though the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, has launched a new fellowship program that will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers.