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Civil rights activists to be honored at local gala

Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Professor advocates for new method of criticism

A new book by English Professor Fredric V. Bogel argues for a new kind of literary analysis to be used in addition to the approaches that have come to dominate the field in the last 50 years.

Biotech awards plant seeds for New York startups

Six new technologies received 2013 Center for Advanced Technology awards for feasibility and proof-of-concept research to enhance the commercial value of such innovations.

Experts debate the Syrian crisis in age of Facebook

Three panelists looked at the Syrian crisis in a campus event Nov. 25 from historical and political perspectives.

Sex abuse triggers early puberty and its problems

Sexually abused girls reach puberty before other girls, a new study finds, and early puberty increases their risk of having emotional problems.

Facebook supports open-source software course

Students in "Open-Source Software Engineering" work with industry mentors and worldwide teams on real-world projects.

Jesuit: God and science are not incompatible

A Jesuit priest argued that faith can inform science rather than impede it in the semiannual Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society on campus Nov. 11.

New website is 'one-stop shop' for climate change info

The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.

Cushing Strout, professor emeritus of English, dies

S. Cushing Strout, professor emeritus in the Department of English, died Nov. 21 in Ithaca at age 90.

Freshman ranks No. 2 among U.S. chess players

Freshman Adarsh Jayakumar, ranked No. 2 among 18-year-old U.S. chess players, incorporates his love of chess with his Cornell studies.

Cornell loses a friend, but not a partnership

In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Alan Mathios talks about the legacy of Don Tobias, executive director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension - New York City, who died Nov. 22.

Your phone can spy on you, new book warns

A book by Cornell engineering professor Stephen Wicker warns that surveillance is built into the cellular phone system.