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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.

Classicist Fontaine on the Roman way of curing mental illness

Michael Fontaine's studies underscore that many of our current concerns are rediscoveries of themes from Rome and Greece. He has been tracing these parallels in a field not often studied in classics departments: modern psychiatry.

January graduates saluted at intimate ceremony, reception

A Dec. 20 Recognition Ceremony sent forth the January graduates, the first of Cornell's sesquicentennial year.

'Text overlap' clutters scientific papers, arXiv analysis finds

Computerized text analysis of scientific papers in the arXiv repository shows that many authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution.

Cornell Perspectives: An outsider's view of U.S. voter turnout

In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Pedro Menchik, a Brazilian doctoral student in the field of food science at Cornell, offers suggestions to increase voter turnout in the United States.

Diverse ideas served up at first food systems summit

Food industry professionals, retailers and suppliers gathered to learn a veritable cornucopia of ideas and concepts at the first Cornell Food Systems Global Summit on Dec. 8.

Help conserve energy on campus over winter break

All members of the Cornell community are asked to take such energy-conserving steps as closing laboratory fume hoods and windows, turning off office lights, and shutting down office equipment.

Weighing risks and rewards, pregnant women eat less fish

A survey of women who recently gave birth found that many women change their behavior and consume less fish during pregnancy, in spite of receiving recommendations for eating fish during pregnancy.

Knee meniscus fixed using revolutionary stem cell procedure

Researchers report on a revolutionary new procedure that uses 3-D printing and the body’s stem cells to regenerate knee meniscus.