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Campus Area Farms offer lots of living lab space

Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers 352 acres - patchwork of 11 small farms - for test plots. (Jan. 30, 2012)

Food safety inspires children to build LEGO machines

A national challenge attracted scores of 6- to 9-year-olds to campus to show off their team-built LEGO contraptions on the theme of food safety Jan. 28. (Jan. 30, 2012)

eCornell named a top leadership training company

eCornell, which offers online professional and executive development courses, has been named to Training Industry Inc.'s list of Top 20 Leadership Training Companies for the third consecutive year. (Jan. 30, 2012)

Volunteers sought for simulated Mars mission and study of 'menu fatigue'

Cornell is working with the University of Hawai'i-Manoa to conduct a three-year NASA study on the diets and food issues of six volunteers who spend four months in a simulated Mars habitat. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Three faculty members named Weiss fellows

Cornell professors George Hudler, Ravi Ramakrishna and Yervant Terzian have been recognized for distinguished teaching with Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Eighth student-designed water plant rises in Honduran town

In a few months, nearly every home in Atima, Honduras, will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Student-developed filter in Honduras is cause for a party

The stacked rapid sand filter, developed by members of Cornell's AguaClara research team, could well be the reason that Tamara now has some of the best water in all of Honduras. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Things to Do, Jan. 27-Feb. 3

Events this week include a winter reception at the Johnson Museum, the inaugural Startup Fair, a film series devoted to sound, and lectures on international relations in China and 1970s politics.

New policy gives registered disaster volunteers paid leave for up to five days

Cornell faculty and staff who are certified by the American Red Cross or similar organizations as disaster volunteers or emergency disaster responders can now take five days paid leave. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Nobel laureate Robert Richardson to receive Duke degree

Physicist Robert C. Richardson, 1996 Nobel laureate, will receive an honorary degree from Duke University. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Public lecture series to explore the rise of China

The Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life launches a major series of lectures on the politics and ethics of the rise of China. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Assemblies Update, Week of Jan. 23

An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Jan. 26, 2012)