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Cornell MineSweeper team, with goal of saving lives, receives high marks in competition

An autonomous, lightweight robot created by Cornell students for detecting land mines received high marks for design at the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. (June 25, 2009)

Cornell provides insights into results from new poll partnership with New York Times and NY1

A Cornell/New York Times/NY1 poll asked New Yorkers their views on obesity, key politicians, the economy and gay marriage in early June. Questions were contributed by Times pollsters and Cornell faculty members. (June 25, 2009)

New grant explores link between diet and aging

Cornell biochemist Shu-Bing Qian of the Division of Nutrition Sciences has received a $400,000 grant over four years to study how diet impacts the aging process at the molecular level. (June 25, 2009)

A mystery solved: Space shuttle shows 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by comet

The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell research. (June 24, 2009)

Gardens sow common ground for military families to cope with deployment stress

Cornell is helping the military plant Defiant Gardens to give military families a way to connect with each other, with civilians and with their deployed parent or spouse. (June 24, 2009)

Biofuels Research Lab officially opens

The $6 million, 11,000-square-foot facility in Riley Robb Hall will be used to develop renewable energy sources from such nonfood crops as switchgrass, sorghum and willow. (June 24, 2009)

Bio-acoustic recorders could answer question: Do wind farms pose risks to migratory birds?

At the Cornell Workshop on Large-Scale Wind-Generated Power on June 13, researchers proposed using bio-acoustic and radar technology to address whether wind turbines pose risks to billions of night-flying birds. (June 23, 2009)

Séamus Davis to receive prestigious prize for superconductivity experiments

J.C. Seamus Davis will receive the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments for his study of the behavior of electrons in high-temperature superconductors.

Donated truck from the state almost doubles Cornell's milk-moving ability

The New York State Department of Corrections has given Cornell Dairy a 4,200-gallon tanker truck that can carry almost twice the milk and use half the fuel as as the dairy's current 25-year-old truck. (June 23, 2009)

Professors brief Congressional staffers about food safety before key vote

Just days before a U.S. House committee voted to expand the FDA's power to monitor the U.S. food supply, food scientists Kathryn Boor and Robert Gravani briefed D.C. staffers about food safety issues. (June 22, 2009)

48 Chinese high school students arrive for summer courses

Last weekend, 48 Chinese high school students from arrived for this year's six-week Cornell China College Preparatory Program, which is part of Cornell's Summer College.

Apparel design graduate wins at international conference

A Cornell student who graduated in December won the top prize at an international conference for a dress she designed and created while a student. The dress features 2,000 shell buttons. (June 19, 2009)