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Awards honor four members of Cornell engineering community

Several faculty members and a graduate student in Cornell's College of Engineering are recipients of recent awards and honors. They include Fred Kulhawy, David Putnam, Leslie Banks-Sills and Filip Radlinski. Kulhawy, professor…

'The Great Gatsby' is New Student Reading Project book for 3,000 freshmen this fall

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby" will be required reading for more than 3,000 incoming freshman and transfer students this fall. The selection of "Gatsby" for the 2006 New Student Reading Project was…

Honor King's legacy by becoming agents of change, former New Orleans mayor challenges

"Dr. [Martin Luther] King had the vision that we should seek to be thermostats and not just thermometers," said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and a former mayor of New Orleans. He was on campus Feb…

Pest management award goes to innovative apple grower who promotes low-risk strategies

George Lamont's best new idea in apple growing is one he can't sell other growers on. But it has cut his herbicide bill "drastically," he says. He hit on the idea about 10 years ago, after he pushed a probe into soil to test for…

Katherine Reagan named Stern curator of rare books

Katherine Reagan, curator of rare books in the Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections since 2000, has been named the Ernest L. Stern '56 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the next five…

Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer, even if they don't have symptoms

NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2006) -- Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer even if they don't have symptoms, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell…

Now world has access to 10-second evidence that ivory-billed woodpecker lives

Ten seconds of video that rocked the world of ornithology - featuring a fuzzy but painstakingly analyzed ivory-billed woodpecker sighting - is now available on the Web site of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology

'Smashing success' as Mosaic New York City conference brings together alumni of many backgrounds

NEW YORK -- An alumni-driven event to celebrate diversity and advance inclusion, the Cornell Mosaic @ New York City conference, drew about 130 alumni and guests to the Cornell Club on Feb 4. Organizer Renee Alexander '74, Cornell…

Center for Learning and Teaching improves how students learn and instructors teach

Regularly scheduled help sessions for such large, introductory science courses as biology, chemistry and physics ... free tutoring ... free workshops on how to improve study skills ... a van service for students with physical…

Three CU students and one coach are competing on snow and ice at Turin Olympics

When the 20th Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy, on Friday, Feb. 10, the Cornell community will be rooting for three of its own: undergraduates Jamie Silverstein and Travis Mayer and law-student-to-be Matt Savoie. Ice…

Previous pandemic in 1918 recalled as Cornell plans for possible avian flu threat

As avian flu spreads among bird populations throughout Asia and eastern Europe, accounting for close to 90 human deaths so far, health officials at Cornell University are working out details of an emergency plan for campus in…

Cornell inventors get lots of help with patents -- but not every idea leads to pot of gold

"Be it known that I, EZRA CORNELL, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and state of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine or Implement for Laying Metallic Pipes in the Earth, which I denominate 'Cornell's Improved…