Events this week include a concert celebrating Joseph Haydn, a free Ellis Paul show, a film on American financial collapse and conferences on autism and networks and mobility.
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)
The Cornell Society of Women Engineers received the Gold Level Award for Outstanding Collegiate Section at the national SWE conference held Oct. 15-17 in Long Beach, Calif. (Oct. 21, 2009)
The University of Pennsylvania's Nano/BioInterface Center has presented its annual Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology to Harold Craighead. (Oct. 21, 2009)
Understanding of honeybee interactions could have implications for why people act selfishly in a communal system, said Professor Kern Reeve, one of the presenters at the Oct. 16 conference. (Oct. 21, 2009)
Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African language. (Oct. 21, 2009)
The new structure of central university administration will streamline management and establish a more integrated team, with a projected savings of more than $2 million a year.
Cornell's 100+ MPG Team is one of 43 that have made it to the next stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Competition, contest officials announced Oct. 19. (Oct. 20, 2009)
Cornell scientists have invented a reliable way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography. (Oct. 20, 2009)
AguaClara, a program in civil and environmental engineering in which students design municipal drinking water plants, celebrated the groundbreaking of its fifth full-scale facility last month. (Oct. 20, 2009)