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Student inventors receive innovation prizes

A medical scanning device, a microchip to detect cavities and a digital billboard system won three teams of student inventors Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovation awards Dec. 18.

Kheel Center to preserve workplace agreements

A federal grant will enable the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives to digitize a century of collective bargaining contracts.

Extension’s school garden project grows success

Cornell Cooperative Extension's Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth project is growing results in gardens across New York state.

Chen Jian named Wilson Center Global Fellow

Chen Jian, Cornell’s Michael J. Zak Professor of History for U.S.-China Relations in the Department of History, has been named a Woodrow Wilson International Center global fellow.

Super rich benefit from ‘status quo bias’

Senate filibuster rules "get in the way of policy change that could reduce inequality of all kinds, including income inequality," says Cornell's Peter K. Enns. "Significant changes in policy won’t come without institutional reform.”

AAU opposes boycott of Israeli academic institutions

The Association of American Universities issued a statement in response to the American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Cornell President David Skorton signed the AAU statement as a member of its executive committee.

‘Connectivity’ to be hallmark of Cornell Tech campus design

A Dec. 19 panel discussion in New York City outlined the vision for Cornell Tech’s permanent home, slated for groundbreaking in early 2014.

Two years in making, Cornell Tech land deal is official

Two years to the day after Cornell won Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC competition, President David Skorton signed the lease for the city land on which Cornell NYC Tech will be built.

East Avenue to close to through traffic Jan. 8

East Avenue will close to all but buses, bicycles and emergency and construction vehicles from January 2014 to May 2015 as Klarman Hall is built.

Robotics for girls: A grad student's perspective

Physics graduate student Robin Bjorkquist writes about recruiting girls into STEM fields via involvement in a FIRST LEGO League robotics team.

Cornell responds to appeal from fraternity on recognition loss

Vice President Susan Murphy, responding to the appeal by Delta Kappa Epsilon, upheld the revocation decision but reduced the loss of recognition period from a minimum of three years to two years.

Great Dane: Colleagues fete Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.