The Cornell contingent of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission saluted the rover Spirit with a gathering at the Space Sciences Building -- two days before the official anniversary (7:37 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20) of her first Martian year on the red planet. (November 23, 2005)
Faculty, curators and even graduate students culled their collections, and more than 2,000 books were collected for the Center of Oriental Studies at Vilnius University. (November 23, 2005)
Preventing the "freshman 15" and perhaps even the national obesity epidemic could be as simple as stepping on a scale every morning or getting a little info about big portions in all-you-can-eat dining halls, according to two new studies by David Levitsky at Cornell University. (November 22, 2005)
Two Cornell University Nobel laureates spoke at the Triple Helix conference, Nov. 19. Triple Helix is an undergraduate organization founded at Cornell last year that now has 13 chapters and publishes a journal to bridge gaps among science, ethics, society and law. (November 22, 2005)
Six Cornell University professors have received monetary awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Cornell's universitywide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Program.
Douglas Parker '56, LLB '58, author of "Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse," entertained Nash fans in Kroch Library Nov. 11 with reflections on the poet's life and art. (November 22, 2005)
Cornell University Library is among several large academic research libraries that now operate their own publishing offices to produce high-quality scholarly publications, either by working with local researchers or by partnering with other publishers. (November 17, 2005)
More than 80 chief collection development officers, representing the nation's largest research libraries, met at Cornell in October for the "Janus Conference on Research Library Collections: Managing the Shifting Ground between Writers and Readers." (November 17, 2005)
Recognized for his breakthrough biomedical research in the area of inflammation, Weill Cornell Medical College scientist Dr. William A. Muller has been selected by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to receive a 2005 NIH Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award, worth $2.1 million.
The wooden hand levers and foot pedals of the Cornell Chimes' playing stand are a demanding physical workout for the players, known as chimesmasters, performing thrice-daily concerts high up in McGraw Tower. (November 17, 2005)