The Simons Foundation has provided a $60,000 planning grant to develop a structure through which institutions that benefit from and support the online e-print arXiv can participate in its governance. (Oct. 27, 2011)
Artist Lily Yeh described community art as a method to help mend broken communities Oct. 24 as part of the 40th anniversary of the Cornell-affiliated Center for Transformative Action. (Oct. 27, 2011)
The Emergency Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Employees Fund has raised more than $13,000 from recent events to help staff members and faculty with emergency-related needs. (Oct. 27, 2011)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Oct. 27, 2011)
Cornell researchers and colleagues analyzed a 1956 film of the largest woodpecker species that ever lived. Their findings are published in The Auk, and the cover illustration was painted by a grad student. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Your smartphone knows where you go and how fast, while its microphone hears your voice. Soon, your phone may use these capabilities to measure the stress in your life and help you deal with it. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Juan Hinestroza has helped develop transistors using natural cotton fibers, which could lead to smarter, highly functional clothing and perhaps even cotton-based circuits and computers. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have teamed up to offer a new shared doctoral program that will train the next generation of wildlife conservation scientists. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell Researchers have received three grants to reduce apple tree losses and enhance production efficiency among growers. Researchers hope to make future crops even more valuable by reducing tree and fruit losses and enhancing production efficiency.