Art critic, editor and curator Patricia Phillips has been appointed art department chair, effective July 1. She succeeds Franklin Spector, who will continue teaching following a sabbatical. (July 6, 2007)
The Cornell Theory Center has been reorganized and renamed in a move designed to make its high-performance computing resources more efficient and effective for researchers and to take advantage of opportunities for research funding. (July 6, 2007)
The Olin Library exhibit runs through mid-August and showcases a wide variety of government maps, including the U.S. Geological Survey's topographic quadrangles and maps produced from satellite imagery. (July 5, 2007)
More than 450 teens participated in Cooperative Extension's 4-H Career Explorations program, which gave the students a taste of college, a glimpse into some future careers and a strategy for preventing obesity. (July 5, 2007)
The research, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, examined the role of an enzyme called a helicase that plays a major role in separating DNA strands so that replication of a single strand can occur. (July 2, 2007)
Leaders from industry, government and academia gathered at Cornell June 24 to 26 for the 2007 New York Renewable Energy Summit, focusing on renewable energy research and business development. (June 29, 2007)
A residential house now under construction on Cornell's West Campus will be named in honor of the late William T. Keeton, Cornell professor of biology from 1958-80. Keeton House will open in August 2008. (June 29, 2007)
In a unique partnership between academia and industry, an international group of researchers met at Cornell, June 25-26 to develop an instant and cheap HIV/AIDS-status test for developing world. (June 27, 2007)
When French justices at the Cour de cassation in Paris expressed a need to establish a library of American jurisprudence, CU's Claire Germain suggested donating duplicate copies from the Law School's collection. (June 27, 2007)
Cornell researchers are working to prevent the closing of the planetary radar system at the Arecibo Observatory, which Cornell manages for the National Science Foundation through its National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. (June 27, 2007)