Professors Thomas W. Parks and Stephen B. Pope have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, and trustee N.R. Narayana Murthy has been elected a foreign associate. (Feb. 23, 2010)
The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team presented its robot Nova before an audience of students, team advisers and others on Feb. 21.
A new Cornell Cooperative Extension blog, written by a Cornell professor and a consumer scientist, tries to help consumers decipher good science information from bad.
Cornell students affiliated with the Immigrant Farmworker Initiative visit farms to teach these workers English. They also work on campus to raise awareness about farmworker issues.
The sequenced genome helps researchers better understand the biology of the aphid, which may allow them to design new strategies to control these pests. (Feb. 23, 2010)
Making friends in college is not always easy, but for many international students it is even harder considering the language barrier. The Language Pairing Program's new social hours is designed to help. (Feb. 23, 2010)
TV and stage star Jimmy Smits, MFA '82, spent the afternoon of Feb. 22 working with two acting classes and speaking with Latino students. (Feb. 23, 2010)
Natalie Mahowald, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, said the concentration of dust in the atmosphere could affect global systems including climate, precipitation and vegetation.