Three faculty members receive NYSTAR research grants
The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded grants of about $750,000 each to Matthew DeLisa, Dan Luo and Johannes Gehrke, to pursue high-tech research with commercial potential. (Aug. 30, 2007)

$4.9 million grant expands development of Fedora software
A $4.9 million grant has enabled the creation of a nonprofit organization, named Fedora Commons, to further develop and promote advanced digital repository software created at Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)

eCommons is eclectic, esoteric and expanding
Cornell librarians have spruced up and expanded the online DSpace repository, renaming it eCommons@Cornell, and they are calling on researchers and scholars to add content. (Aug. 30, 2007)

DigitalCommons@ILR: Research bulletin board for the world of work
DigitalCommons@ILR is a worldwide bulletin board for the research and scholarship of the ILR School, managed by the Martin P. Catherwood Library. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Amateur photographers 'Capture Light' in Qatar
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar held its second annual photography contest earlier this year, awarding prizes in several categories. (Aug. 30, 2007)

CU greenhouses: Hundreds of plant projects
Cornell greenhouses contain plants for teaching, research and public viewing. With 163 complexes, Cornell now has the largest noncommercial greenhouse operation in New York state. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Jumping from the policy world to academia
Professor Eswar Prasad writes a Cornell Perspectives piece on how he became a more visible advocate for economic policies by jumping from the IMF to Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Letter: On who really wrote Cornell's motto
In a letter to the editor, Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen says the university's legendary motto, 'Any person ... any study,' was certainly penned by Ezra Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)

The Ezra Files: Walking the walk
Ezra Cornell demonstrated his belief in practical higher education for women by enrolling his daughter, Mary Emily, at the newly founded Vassar College in 1866. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Nominations sought for 2008 Rhodes Professorship
All members of the Cornell community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups and organizations, are invited to submit nminations for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professorship. (Aug. 30, 2007)

Alumni magazine gets CU administration support to revamp Web site
Cornell Alumni Magazine and the Division of University Communications will be working together to develop a new Web site for the magazine, which will serve as a better bridge between alumni and the university than ever before. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Mann Library reopens with modern amenities amid vintage details
After a four-year renovation project, the original Mann Library building has reopened with more room to study and state-of-the-art amenities complementing its vintage Art Deco architecture. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Images show threat the rovers face in giant Martian dust storm
The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Researchers report on how neurotransmitters travel between cells
In studying how neurotransmitters travel between cells, Cornell researchers have discovered that an electrical current thought to be present during that process does not, in fact, exist. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Bailey Plaza ribbon-cutting set for Oct. 19
Crews pounded slabs of paving stone into place as work on Bailey Plaza moved toward completion. Construction is expected to continue for two more weeks with a ribbon-cutting ceremony slated for Oct. 19. (Aug. 29, 2007)

200 teens learn about urban forestry and harbor ecology
Teens from New York City low-income neighborhoods participated in 'Island Explorers,' a Cornell outdoor adventure and environmental education program, on historic Governors Island in New York Harbor. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Screenwriter, director Mel Shavelson '37 dies
A Hollywood screenwriter, producer and director, alumnus Melville Shavelson supported student filmmakers at Cornell, through equipment upgrades and production grants. (Aug. 29, 2007)

Bomb threat clears Sage Hall
Cornell Police ordered the evacuation of Sage Hall for about two hours Aug. 28 after a faculty member reported receiving an e-mail claiming that a bomb was in the building. (Aug. 28, 2007)

Skorton opens the Donlon 'Olympics'
President David Skorton, a resident of Mary Donlon Hall this week, served as the master of ceremonies Aug. 27 to open the Donlon Games. (Aug. 28, 2007)

Cornell picks Stewart's Shops in Saratoga as state's best milk
Stewart's Shops of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has been named the 2007 Best Milk by Cornell's New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program. (Aug. 28, 2007)

Students and faculty mingle at annual Picnic on the Quad
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff gathered on the Arts Quad to mingle at the second annual Welcome Weekend Picnic on the Quad, Aug. 23, the first day of classes. (Aug. 28, 2007)

Cornell's emergency response plans focus on business continuity
A new notification service is the latest addition to Cornell's ongoing emergency planning effort. (Aug. 27, 2007)

Cornell team creates math model for circadian rhythm
Cornell researchers hypothesize that the accepted model of circadian rhythmicity may be missing a key link, based on a mathematical model of what happens during the sleeping/waking cycle in fruit flies. (Aug. 27, 2007)

CU researcher engineers sorghum that grows in poisonous soils
Aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land. Now, Cornell researchers have cloned a novel aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum and expect to have genetically engineered aluminum-tolerant sorghum lines by next year. (Aug. 27, 2007)

Skorton and son take a 4-H tour of state fair
President David Skorton got off on the right foot at the 161st New York State Fair in Syracuse Aug. 23 by taking Cornell Cooperative Extension's "Choose Health" walking challenge, a 4-H initiative. (Aug. 24, 2007)

Jurriaan Gerretsen named CCMR associate director
The Cornell Center for Materials Research recently named Jurriaan Gerretsen as associate director. Gerretsen also serves as associate director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems. (Aug. 24, 2007)

Students learn how laws differ at Paris Summer Institute
The Cornell Law School's Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, attracts students from all over the world to study how other legal systems function. (Aug. 24, 2007)

How to avoid the 'freshman 15'
Larger portions, larger plates and even noise and bright lights can contribute to freshmen gaining weight, Cornell nutritionist Michele Wilbur told a group of new students in an Aug. 22 presentation on how to avoid the so-called 'freshman 15.' (Aug. 24, 2007)

David Harris named deputy provost
Provost Carolyn (Biddy) Martin announced this week that she has established the position of deputy provost in her office and has named David R. Harris to the post, effective Aug. 20. (Aug. 23, 2007)

Robert Buhrman named vice provost for research
Robert Buhrman, director of Cornell's Center for Nanoscale Systems, succeeds Nobel laureate Robert Richardson, who will become senior science adviser to Provost Biddy Martin and President David Skorton. (Aug. 23, 2007)

Students urged to provide emergency contacts
Cornell has added a new emergency contact database to its 'Who I Am' electronic directory, and all students are urged to sign up. Faculty and staff will be able to fill out emergency information later this fall. (Aug. 23, 2007)

With new programs, Sage Chapel offers sustenance for spirit, mind
Sage Chapel has launched a new series of programs aimed at letting the Cornell and Ithaca communities know there's a peaceful place on campus to visit that's open to all faiths. (Aug. 23, 2007)

Cornell in top 10 spots in Washington Monthly, Princeton Review
Cornell is the top-rated Ivy League school in Washington Monthly's third annual college rankings, and is cited in The Princeton Review's survey of the 366 best colleges. (Aug. 23, 2007)

CU ranks among the best colleges for entrepreneurs, says magazine
Fortune Small Business says Cornell is 'ahead of the pack when it comes to bringing students of all disciplines together in entrepreneurship classes.' (Aug. 22, 2007)

Forgo bottled water -- and soda -- to save the planet
Bottled water wastes energy and hurts the environment, asserts Cornell extension associate Jennifer Wilkins in this Cornell Perspectives opinion piece. (Aug. 22, 2007)

Diversity program pushes students to ponder prejudices
'Tapestry of Possibilities,' an orientation performance of skits about diversity, seeks to stretch the comfort zones of new students at Cornell. (Aug. 22, 2007)

New students connect Gordimer's 'The Pickup' to college life
In a New Student Reading Project small-group discussion, Aug. 20, led by Associate Professor Marianella Casasola, students relate 'The Pickup' to their experience of being new on campus. (Aug. 22, 2007)

Students discuss themes of 'The Pickup'
In a New Student Reading Project small-group discussion led by Professor Dan Schwarz, Aug. 20, students ponder whether 'The Pickup' is existentialist, Marxist, feminist ... or all three. (Aug. 22, 2007)

Images from move-in day, Aug. 17
Cornell welcomed freshmen and transfer students to campus Aug. 17. Watch a slide show of students moving in and getting settled. (Aug. 21, 2007)

City, Cornell discuss Milstein Hall and University Avenue plans
The proposed construction of Paul Milstein Hall, the new building of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, has sparked a debate over Cornell's plans to extend the structure above University Avenue. (Aug. 21, 2007)

The Ezra Files: A great seal, a timeless maxim
The now-legendary motto 'I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study' first appeared on the university's Great Seal. (Aug. 21, 2007)

Divided opinion: New Cornellians pick apart 'The Pickup'
The Cornell community gathered Aug. 18 to discuss 'The Pickup' as part of the New Student Reading Project. (Aug. 20, 2007)

Skorton emphasizes freedom with responsibility in welcome address
President David Skorton welcomed several thousand new and transfer students and their families huddled in Schoellkopf Stadium Aug. 18, on a morning with more than a hint of autumn in it. (Aug. 20, 2007)

Indian film star, activist Shabana Azmi to visit campus
The South Asia Program at Cornell will present films and a discussion with Indian film star and activist Shabana Azmi, Aug. 28 in Cornell's Alice Statler Auditorium. (Aug. 20, 2007)

Spitzer Space Telescope 'dust-busts' universe for four years
Celebrating the fourth anniversary of the launch of the $800 million Spitzer Space Telescope, Professor Jim Houck, leader of Cornell's Spitzer team, says the telescope's greatest accomplishments are yet to come. (Aug. 20, 2007)

Researchers discover 'exotic' interface between two materials
In a step toward understanding matter at its most fundamental levels, Cornell researchers have found that two rather conventional materials can be made to exhibit very unconventional properties when they interface. (Aug. 20, 2007)

Student tickets available for Dalai Lama talk
A limited number of tickets for the Dalai Lama's Oct. 9 talk at Cornell will be available to students beginning Aug. 20. (Aug. 17, 2007)

Community service is key part of pre-orientation program
More than 50 freshmen and transfer students spent the week before Orientation painting, weeding and cleaning in community projects around Ithaca as part of Cornell's Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) program. (Aug. 17, 2007)

Technology Review names two Cornellians 'technology innovators'
Technology Review magazine has named Assistant Professor Abraham Stroock '95 and Josh Bongard, a recent Cornell postdoctoral researcher, as 2007 Young Innovators under age 35. (Aug. 17, 2007)

Joycelyn Hart dies at age 80
Joycelyn R. Hart, associate vice president emerita for human relations and the first African-American woman in Cornell's senior administration, died Aug. 6 at her Ithaca home after a brief illness. (Aug. 17, 2007)

Cornell plant pathologist William Mai dies at age 91
William (Bill) F. Mai, Cornell Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus and professor of plant pathology, died Aug. 15 in Ithaca. (Aug. 17, 2007)

Cornell engineering physics ranked No. 1 by U.S. News
For undergraduates looking for the top program in engineering physics, Cornell is the best place to go, according to U.S. News and World Report. In overall rankings for 2008, Cornell tied for 12th best. (Aug. 17, 2007)

PRI's John Gurche re-creates the prehistoric world
A self-described paleo-artist, John Gurche creates vivid sketches and paintings depicting prehistoric life. For the past several years, he has worked at PRI's Museum of the Earth as an artist-in-residence. (Aug. 16, 2007)

The Ezra Files: The founder rolls up his sleeves
Ezra Cornell was deeply involved in the construction of the new campus and was known to hover over workers, to whom he offered 'sharp admonishments.' (Aug. 16, 2007)

Today's white rice is mutation spread by early farmers
Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice comes from a mutation in a single gene and that early farmers favored, bred and spread white rice around the world. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Cornell veterinary technician adopts former racehorse
Molly Copeland has adopted an injured racehorse named Watchmon, with hopes of breeding him and donating the stud fees to a foundation that grants wishes for terminally ill children. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Entrepreneur summer interns work at startup companies
Thanks to a grant from the Center for Life Science Enterprise, 18 students served as summer interns through Entrepreneurship@Cornell, working at startup companies throughout New York state. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Conferences looks at how institutions affect entrepreneurs
The Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship, July 22-24 at the Johnson School at Cornell, was the first academic gathering to examine how entrepreneurs are influenced by institutional challenges. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Letter: On the interpretation of Cornell's motto
In a letter to the editor, alumnus Bob Boyajian urges the Cornell administration to be mindful of how the university's motto is interpreted. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Uncertainty of rainfall breeds cooperation in birds, study finds
For the first time, Cornell researchers have linked a specific aspect of the environment to the evolution of cooperative breeding in numerous bird species: unpredictable rainfall. Their findings on African starlings appear in the Aug. 21 issue of Current Biology. (Aug. 16, 2007)

Campuswide discussion of 'The Pickup' is Aug. 19
The Class of 2011 -- along with the Cornell community and readers around the world -- are taking part in Cornell's seventh New Student Reading Project, exploring Nadine Gordimer's 2001 novel 'The Pickup.' (Aug. 15, 2007)

Thurston Avenue Bridge and Tower Road set to reopen
The Thurston Avenue Bridge, linking North and Central campuses, will reopen Aug. 16, although TCAT bus service won't resume until Aug. 19. Tower Road will reopen Aug. 17. (Aug. 15, 2007)

Newsweek makes it official: We're the 'Hottest Ivy'
Newsweek magazine has named Cornell the 'Hottest Ivy' in its 2007 list of the 25 'Hottest Schools,' which is part of the magazine's annual College Guide edition. (Aug. 14, 2007)

Music-themed orientation set to rock new Cornell students' world
This year's campus orientation, from Aug. 17 through 22, will introduce new students to the rhythms of life at Cornell through music-themed events. (Aug. 13, 2007)

'Exceptional' Class of 2011 stems from largest applicant pool
The 2007 entering freshman class at Cornell will be a more selective group than ever, chosen from a record number of applications -- 30,383, up almost 20 percent from just two years ago. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Garden Mosaics wins international recognition
Garden Mosaics, an interactive urban natural resources extension project available on DVD, has been recognized in the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment competition. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Cherney wins award for forage production, grass bioenergy work
Jerry H. Cherney, New York state forage specialist and a leading researcher in grass bioenergy production, is the recipient of the 2007 Extension-Industry Award. (Aug. 13, 2007)

Cornell scientists link E. coli bacteria to Crohn's disease
A team of Cornell scientists has discovered that intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease may be associated with a novel group of E. coli bacteria with genes similar to bacteria that cause diseases ranging from salmonella to cholera and even bubonic plague. (Aug. 10, 2007)

AAP Dean Mostafavi to lead Harvard design school
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning since 2004, will be leaving Cornell to become dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design in January of 2008. (Aug. 10, 2007)

Google will digitize Cornell Library volumes for its book search
Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. (Aug. 8, 2007)

Parkinson's gene therapy trial results promising, WCMC team says
In what could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson's, a team led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has completed the first-ever phase 1 clinical trial using gene therapy to battle the disease. (Aug. 8, 2007)

Syed Rizvi named a Jefferson Science Fellow
The State Department has named Cornell food scientist Syed Rizvi as a Jefferson Science Fellow. Fellows spend a year at the department, working to engage the academic science and engineering communities in U.S. foreign policy. (Aug. 8, 2007)

Shoals adds wind turbine, takes lead in island sustainability
A new wind turbine on Appledore Island, home of Shoals Marine Lab, symbolizes the lab's efforts to make Appledore a case study for innovative sustainable practices. (Aug. 6, 2007)

New turbine on Shoals a sustainable engineering feat
A new wind turbine at the Shoals Marine Lab was specially designed to meet strict state codes for seabirds. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to make nanoscale resonators vibrate 'in the plane' -- that is, side to side -- and have shown that this can improve biodetection by shaking off extraneous stuff that isn't supposed to be detected. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Creative Writing Program named among top 10 in nation
In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs, citing the quality of the program's alumni and faculty, its selectivity and its resources. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Cornell's 'Any person ... any study' named best college motto
Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Cassini team discovers origin of Saturn's G ring
The source for Saturn's enigmatic G ring may be debris formed by collisions between micrometeorites and relatively large, icy particles that form an arc along the ring's inner edge, CU researcher Matt Hedman and colleagues report. (Aug. 6, 2007)

Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes Cornell's David Pimentel. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases worldwide. (Aug. 2, 2007)

Wait for the beep, then take your seat: TCAT installs card readers
The entire TCAT fleet of 49 buses has been outfitted with electronic card readers that can validate Cornell ID cards and keep better track of ridership trends. (Aug. 2, 2007)

LGBT supporters rally on Ho Plaza
A rally Aug. 2 to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at Cornell and in Ithaca was nearly 200 strong by 8:30 a.m. The rally was held in response to a nearby hate group protest. (Aug. 2, 2007)

Caroline schoolchildren benefit from a FEAST
FEAST for Health is a Cornell food-based nutrition education program in which children prepare unfamiliar, healthy foods in class and the foods become part of school lunch. (Aug. 1, 2007)