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Anthony Graves, MFA '09, an Ithaca artist and curator, has been selected to receive the 2008 Hartell Graduate Award. (Dec. 4, 2008)

Technology ambassadors send Cornell library computers, software to Iraqi schools

The Cornell Computer Reuse Association is collecting computers and software from Cornell University Library and other campus departments to send to Iraqi schools. (Dec. 3, 2008)

Student work sought for psychology art competition

The Department of Psychology is inviting all Cornell students to explore the human condition through two-dimensional art in a new juried annual competition with a $2,000 prize. (Dec. 3, 2008)

CU Winds join Philadelphia schools in musical outreach

More than 60 student musicians in the Cornell Wind Ensembles participated in an outreach and education project with young instrumental music students in the Philadelphia school district in November. (Dec. 3, 2008)

Yam ice cream takes the prize in Cornell class contest

Slammin' Yamz! is the winner of the annual Food Science 101 ice cream contest. The yam-flavored ice cream has beta carotene, molasses, marshmallow swirl, cinnamon and nutmeg and contains less than 4 percent fat. (Dec. 3, 2008)

Death of professor's son prompts two funds to help students with health/disability challenges

ILR professor Ron Ehrenberg helped establish two endowments for students with health or disability problems, after his son Eric died from complications of a brain tumor in August. (Dec. 2, 2008)

Turn off the lights and print on both sides: More ideas for cost-cutting are voiced at forums

Employees offered suggestions for cost savings at an open forum in the Biotechnology Building. (Dec. 2, 2008)

Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?

Visiting scholar Esther Farnós-Amorós discussed who gets the embryos when a couple divorces. At play is the right not to procreate, she says. (Dec. 2, 2008)

High tunnels yield healthier, prettier produce and enable longer growing seasons

Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect and blemish free - tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The secret? He grows all his tomatoes in high tunnels. (Dec. 2, 2008)

Speakers address attempts to heal the bodies and spirits<br />of torture victims

Staff from the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture at New York University spoke to a Cornell audience Nov. 20 about how they help victims of torture heal. (Dec. 1, 2008)

Obama election creates opportunities for the environment, say labor leaders

Labor and environmental leaders, meeting Nov. 25 at Cornell's Global Labor Institute in Manhattan, agreed that the potential to ally the environmental and labor communities has never been stronger. (Nov. 26, 2008)

Edwin Salpeter, whose theories revolutionized astrophysics, dies at 83

Edwin Salpeter, whose theories revolutionized astrophysics, died at his home in Ithaca Nov. 26. He was 83. (Nov. 26, 2008)