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Teachers tackle bioenergy in weeklong course on campus

Ten teachers are on campus for two weeks for the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Program Master Teacher Program to learn how to teach about bioenergy.

New book reconsiders legal understanding of corruption

Law professor Laura Underkuffler's new book, "Captured By Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law,” tackles a concept hitherto largely unexplored in legal scholarship.

Microbiologist Norman Dondero dies at age 95

Norman C. Dondero, Ph.D. ’52, Cornell professor emeritus of microbiology died, July 10 at Kendal at Ithaca. He was 95.

Migration's effects across cultural, religious, racial lines

Professor of English Jane Juffer examines the effects of Latino migration to small towns in her new book, "Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion and Migration in the U.S. Midwest."

Device mimics cancer cell environment

Bioengineers are examining a critical step in the metastatic process using a microfluidic device that mimics the cancer cell microenvironment.

New project 'flips' the teaching of science

A new five-year pilot project in the College of Arts and Sciences will try a new way to teach science by saving class time for "deliberate practice."

Alumna recalls growing up in Frank Lloyd Wright house

Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.

From the grounds up, study seeks sustainable 'java'

Cornell professors seek to brew agricultural, environmental and economic sustainability together for the world’s smallholder coffee bean growers.

'Heavy fermion' pairing may help explain superconductors

Revealing the electronic structure of an unusual superconductor may give theorists the tools to understand how superconductors work and create high-temperature versions.

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia named Wilson Center fellow

Maria Cristina Garcia, a professor of history and the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, has been named a Woodrow Wilson Center fellow for 2013-14.

Service honors 'statesman of science' Robert Richardson

The life of Nobel laureate Robert C. Richardson, who died in February, was celebrated at a July 13 memorial service in Sage Chapel.

Portrait Earth: Wave at Saturn and Cassini July 19

Go ahead, wave! From 898 million miles away, NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will snap a portrait of Earth July 19 from between Saturn’s rings.