NASA/JPLA view of Mars' Victoria crater as seen by Opportunity's navigation cameras. The rover reached Victoria after a 21-month drive. The crater's layered rocks could offer a wealth of new information about Martian history.
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Recognizing the seriousness of the proposed $183.5 million reduction in tax dollar support for the 34 state-operated campuses of the State University of New York, including the contract colleges at Cornell.
The student project team, which designs, builds and drives an off-road vehicle that can withstand the punishment of rough terrain, came in first for design at the Baja Wisconsin competition in June. (July 9, 2009)
With support from major industrial partners, Cornell University has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for the design and testing of radio-frequency integrated circuits, such as the transceivers in cellular phones and other wireless devices.
Veit Elser, Cornell professor of physics, has found that an algorithm developed to process X-ray diffraction data also solves Sudoku puzzles. (Feb. 26, 2006)
The Cornell campus hosts a group of serious critical thinkers each summer at the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) during an intensive six-week seminar that returns for its 30th session.
Michael Barany, Alexandra Denby and Alisa Mo are among 317 undergraduates nationwide to earn the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for academic excellence in math, science and engineering. (April 6, 2007)
In her first short-story collection, poet and Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton finds inspiration in four generations of women in her upstate family. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Crows, starlings and street pigeons aren't the only feathered denizens of American cities, children will learn when they participate as "citizen scientists" in a new annual event from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.