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Female student reports early morning strong-arm robbery

Cornell Police reports that a 24-year-old, female Cornell student was the victim of a strong-arm robbery early this morning on a footbridge leading from the campus to Collegetown.

Conflict management expert launches ILR's new Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution at Cornell

To launch the new Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Associate Professor Elizabeth Mannix of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business will give a talk.

Hurricane Georges destroys the homes of five Arecibo employees; observatory turns from life-seeking to life sustenance

As the Arecibo Observatory is used to scan the cosmos for extraterrestrial life, the observatory itself has become a source of life sustenance in the aftermath of Hurricane Georges.

Cacao craving may explain 3000-year occupation of Honduran village, archaeologists say

Digging through history to a time before agriculture, archaeologists from Cornell and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously occupied from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000.

The late Jean McKelvey, ILR's first faculty member, receives UAW's Social Justice Award

To honor the late Jean McKelvey, one of two founding faculty members of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union awarded McKelvey, posthumously, the UAW Social Justice Award.

Nobel laureate and chemist Richard Ernst gives lectures on campus Oct. 14-29 as A.D. White Professor-at-Large

Richard Ernst, 1991 Nobel laureate in chemistry and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will visit Cornell Oct. 14-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

Cornell food scientists discover why baked-then-cooled mozzarella cheese turns translucent

A Cornell food science student has answered an age-old question that has puzzled collegians through the years: Dude, why is the cheese on this cold pizza translucent?

El Niño absolved: No (immediate) weird weather effect seen by 13,000 bird-counters in Cornell Ornithology Lab's Project FeederWatch

The much-maligned El Niño of 1997-98 can't be blamed for bird shortages, bird surpluses or other avian population perturbations -- at least not yet -- say Cornell ornithologists who are analyzing reports from 13,000 North American citizen-scientists in Project FeederWatch.

Cornell Public Service Center seeks social-change leaders to apply for foundation's fellowship program

Cornell, through the Public Service Center, is seeking applicants for participation in the echoing green foundation's 1999 fellowship program.

Cornell students organize relief efforts for hurricane victims

Responding to the mass destruction in the Dominican Republic from Hurricane Georges, members of student groups and departments at Cornell met this week to formalize relief efforts for the damaged country.

Neutron stars and pulsars are subjects of Thomas Gold Lecture Series

The Cornell Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.

$2.25 million NSF grant provides graduate fellowships for students in Cornell's new nonlinear systems program

A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.