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Garden Mosaics wins international recognition from the United Nations-Habitat

Garden Mosaics, an interactive urban natural resources extension project available on DVD, has been recognized in the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment competition. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Jerry Cherney wins extension award

Jerry H. Cherney, New York state forage specialist and a leading researcher in grass bioenergy production, is the recipient of the 2007 Extension-Industry Award. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Cornell scientists link <i>E. coli</i> bacteria to Crohn's disease

A team of Cornell scientists has discovered that intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease may be associated with a novel group of E. coli bacteria with genes similar to bacteria that cause diseases ranging from salmonella to cholera and even bubonic plague. (Aug. 10, 2007)

Architecture, Art and Planning Dean Mohsen Mostafavi to lead Harvard design school

Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning since 2004, will be leaving Cornell to become dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design in January of 2008. (Aug. 10, 2007)

Half-million volumes in Cornell Library collection to be digitized and available through Google Book Search

Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. (Aug. 8, 2007)

First gene therapy clinical trial for Parkinson's disease improves patients' motor skills with no major side effects

In what could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson's, a team led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has completed the first-ever phase 1 clinical trial using gene therapy to battle the disease. (Aug. 8, 2007)

Syed Rizvi named a Jefferson Science Fellow

The State Department has named Cornell food scientist Syed Rizvi as a Jefferson Science Fellow. Fellows spend a year at the department, working to engage the academic science and engineering communities in U.S. foreign policy. (Aug. 8, 2007)

Island location makes Shoals an ideal case study in sustainability -- from wind power to composting

A new wind turbine on Appledore Island, home of Shoals Marine Lab, symbolizes the lab's efforts to make Appledore a case study for innovative sustainable practices. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Innovative engineering helps Shoals Marine Lab's new wind turbine meet seabird code

A new wind turbine at the Shoals Marine Lab was specially designed to meet strict state codes for seabirds. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities, researchers find

Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to make nanoscale resonators vibrate 'in the plane' -- that is, side to side -- and have shown that this can improve biodetection by shaking off extraneous stuff that isn't supposed to be detected. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Cornell's Creative Writing Program ranked among the nation's best

In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs, citing the quality of the program's alumni and faculty, its selectivity and its resources. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Cornell University's 'Any person ... any study' named nation's best college motto by magazine

Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)