From building robotic submarines to designing communication devices, engineering career possibilities were seemingly endless at a science workshop for Girl Scouts, hosted by a Cornell student group March 10. (March 13, 2007)
The annual BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) exhibition filled the Duffield Hall Atrium with booths, posters and gadgets and drew hundreds of visitors. (March 12, 2007)
Two species of amblypygids, or whip spiders, long thought to be purely predatory, anti-social and just plain aggressive arachnids, exhibit surprisingly warm behavior, says Cornell researcher Linda Rayor. (March 12, 2007)
Cornell's applied economics and management program was ranked 10th in BusinessWeek's Top 50 undergraduate business schools, released March 8. (March 9, 2007)
30,000 hopeful freshmen are vying for 3,200 slots at Cornell in fall, President David Skorton told the board at a meeting on campus March 9. (March 9, 2007)
Stunning microscopy images of gold nanoparticles and calcium carbonate crystals, among others, win the Cornell Center for Materials Research imaging contest. (March 9, 2007)
Cornell Information Technologies has raised mail file size limits from 15 MB to 50 MB during weekdays, and it has installed a new spam defense. (March 9, 2007)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin called for more diversity in faculty hiring in her first Academic State of the University Address March 7. (March 8, 2007)
Cornell's Einaudi Center for International Studies awards travel grants to more than 150 grad students a year. Its semiannual photo contest captures the diversity of the students' destinations. (March 7, 2007)