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A fish called Suarez is named for biomedical professor

When a fish is named after you, your name is immortalized in the taxonomic record of vertebrates, which represents just 3 percent of all animal species. That's the honor that has been bestowed upon Susan Suarez, Cornell professor…

Hot flies produce cool results -- the ability to watch genes activating in live tissue

Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue.

With Homeland Security grant, Cornell seeks to sort facts from opinions

What are newspapers around the world saying about the latest speech by President George W. Bush? More importantly, how much of what they are saying is factual and how much opinion? And down the line, are some of the opinions…

Constitution Day observed at Cornell

Geoffrey Gray, Hotel '08, places copies of "The United States Constitution: What It Says, What It Means" and a one-page handout about Constitution Day on the bed in a room at the Statler Hotel Friday, Sept. 15. The guides and…

Journalist-authors tell harrowing tale of kidnapping in Iraq -- and the grassroots struggle for release

After Micah Garen '94 was kidnapped with his translator, Amir, from a market in southern Iraq on Aug. 13, 2004, it was largely the work of his now-fiancée Marie-Helene Carlton and the grassroots efforts she led across the world…

Sunny side up: Cornell's solar house landscaping wins national award

The Cornell student-designed and -built solar house has won a student 'Award of Honor' from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its functional landscape.

Arch of progress

Lindsay France/University Photography New steel arches are positioned and attached to abutments in the cliffs on the site of the Thurston Avenue Bridge on Friday morning, Sept. 15. The bridge is scheduled to remain closed to all…

Beach plum jam, anyone? Cornell develops line of crop plants away from the dunes to make sure you get your fill

Krishna Ramanujan/Cornell ChronicleHorticulture graduate student Rebecca Harbut harvests beach plums at Cornell Orchards. It's harvest time at Cornell Orchards, and beach plums (Prunus maritima), commonly found on coastal dunes,…

Anurag Agrawal receives ecology award

Anurag Agrawal, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has received the Ecological Society of America's (ESA) George Mercer Award for his 2004 paper, "Resistance and Susceptibility of Milkweed: Competition, Root…

Federal, state partnership could improve U.S. population estimates, Cornell demographer tells Congress

The U.S. Census Bureau could improve the quality of its population estimates by working more closely with a partnership of local, state and federal officials, Warren Brown, a leading Cornell demographer, testified to a U.S. House…

'Natural democracy' -- putting life of planet ahead of profits -- is advocated by Professor Eric Cheyfitz

While the West views nature as an entity that should be controlled and dominated and that is in opposition to culture, traditional Native American philosophies view nature as kin, inseparable from humans, to be treated with…

Two innovative Cornell engineers, Manohar and DeLisa, selected for NAE's 'Frontiers of Engineering'

Two members of the Cornell College of Engineering faculty have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's 12th annual Symposium on the Frontiers of Engineering, Sept. 21-23, at Ford Research and…