Neil Ashcroft elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)

Computerworld Magazine: Cornell a great place to work in IT
For the second consecutive year, Computerworld Magazine has named Cornell University a top employer of information technology professionals. (June 30, 2008)

President Skorton sits in on Mars rover planning meeting
Skorton got a backstage look at the planning behind NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission during his first meeting with astronomy professor Steve Squyres, the lead scientist for the mission. (June 26, 2008)

CU to invest $2 million in local housing, transportation in 2009
In a column in The Ithaca Journal, President David Skorton unveils the first phase in a 10-year, $20 million housing and transportation initiative in Tompkins County. (June 26, 2008)

Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures
Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures for catalysis by guiding metal particles into the desired form using soft polymers. (June 26, 2008)

CU-supported Ithaca Carshare provides vehicles for pickup
Ithaca Carshare, the result of two years of grassroots partnering among Cornell, Ithaca College, the city of Ithaca and Tompkins County, is ready to roll. (June 26, 2008)

Cornell's Sondermann receives Pew Award
Holger Sondermann will use the award to investigate how communities of harmful bacteria are able to form biofilms, which are microbial blankets that shelter the bacteria from attack by antibiotics. (June 26, 2008)

Center promotes acting, singing and dancing for social change
The Center for Transformative Action (formerly CRESP) at Cornell has created the Performing Arts for Social Change, an initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance. (June 26, 2008)

They came all the way from China for a taste of Cornell
Fifty Chinese students are on campus this summer attending the Cornell Summer College. The Chinese students are part of the Cornell-China College Preparatory Program (CCCPP) and have just arrived to begin their studies. (June 26, 2008)

Kent Kleinman named dean of Architecture, Art and Planning
Kent Kleinman, a professor and department chair at Parsons The New School for Design, has been selected as the new Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He will begin his five-year term Sept. 1. (June 26, 2008)

Wanted: Kids to help Cornell find missing ladybugs
Cornell has received $2 million from the National Science Foundation for the Lost Ladybug Project, which will enlist the help of children nationwide to find ladybugs and learn about biodiversity. (June 25, 2008)

Pregnant women get morning sickness to protect fetus
Morning sickness, reports Cornell's Paul Sherman, protects both the pregnant woman and the developing embryo just when the fetus is most vulnerable. (June 25, 2008)

Creating business opportunities with the world's poor
The Johnson School's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise is helping to alleviate poverty by partnering multinational corporations with local communities in poor areas of the world. (June 25, 2008)

Cornell life sciences tools are available to everyone
The Cornell Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center provides an array of instruments and services for experimentation on genomics, proteomics, imaging, IT and informatics. (June 25, 2008)

Sustainability center requests proposals for fund program
The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future is looking for innovative ideas on sustainability for its new Academic Venture Fund program. (June 25, 2008)

Students notified of possible identity compromise
Cornell is offering free credit protection to 2,500 students and alumni after the discovery that a computer containing their personal information was infected with malicious software. (June 25, 2008)

Lowi suggests changes in presidential election process
The cure for what ails the American method of electing a president is a dose of parliament, says Ted Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell. (June 25, 2008)

Todd McGrain memorializes 'lost birds' with sculpture project
Cornell professor of art Todd McGrain is immortalizing the passenger pigeon and four other North American bird species driven to extinction in his 'Lost Bird Project' to be shown in Rochester this summer. (June 24, 2008)

Agriculture's local impact is more than economic, study finds
Agriculture is important for generating jobs and income, but it also improves quality of life, according to a Cornell study that asked New Yorkers about the value of local agriculture. (June 24, 2008)

Alan Mathios appointed dean of the College of Human Ecology
Mathios, who has served as interim dean since July 2007, has been appointed the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology for a five-year term, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)

Law student receives New York Bar scholarship
Cornell Law School student Nicholas A. Dorsey '09 won the 2008 Judge Bernard S. Meyer Scholarship for his winning legal essay on the Americans with Disabilities Act. (June 24, 2008)

Steven Stucky to chair American Music Center board
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Cornell professor will serve as AMC's public face and primary representative for its membership, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)

Disk crash stalls Cornell e-mail
A major hardware crash Sunday, June 15, left many Cornell users unable to receive e-mail for periods ranging from two days to almost a week. Some incoming mail was irretrievably lost in the process. (June 23, 2008)

Kotlikoff wins award for cardiovascular research and leadership
Michael Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. (June 23, 2008)

Dinner honors staff for working at Cornell for 25 to 55 years
The 53rd Service Recognition Dinner in Bartels Hall, June 9, honored Cornell's staff who have been at the university 25 years or more on the occasion of their five-year anniversaries, and those with more than 40 years of service. (June 23, 2008)

Helping students surf and sift through the seas of information
Cornell's first Summer Institute of the Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative, held June 16-20, explored how Cornell could restructure its curriculum and help students access information. (June 20, 2008)

Symposium celebrates Watt Webb's 80th birthday
Researchers from around the world gathered at Cornell June 16 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Watt W. Webb, professor of applied physics and the Samuel B. Eckert Professor in Engineering. (June 20, 2008)

Skorton announces formation of Provost Search Committee
Astronomy professor Martha Haynes will lead the 10-member search committee, which will recommend, from within the Cornell community, a successor to Biddy Martin. Deputy Provost David Harris was named interim provost, effective Sept. 1. (June 18, 2008)

Symposium honors engineering professor Lester Eastman
The symposium was held in honor of Eastman's 60th year at Cornell as a faculty member, researcher and mentor to students. (June 17, 2008)

Elisabeth Stern '09 gets national award for her global service
Elisabeth Stern '09 has been won the 2008 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from the Campus Compact for 'extraordinary commitment to improving local and global communities.' (June 17, 2008)

Efficiency experts seek to save minutes in deploying ambulances
How can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways. (June 16, 2008)

Friends and family gather at Kendal to remember Ray Wu
Ray Wu was 'a true visionary,' said friend and colleague Ajay Garg at a June 15 memorial service honoring the late Cornell geneticist. (June 16, 2008)

Cornell student Douglas Lowe '11 drowns in Fall Creek
Cornell student Douglas Lowe, Class of 2011, age 18, of Shelton, Conn., drowned June 12 in the turbulent waters of the Fall Creek Gorge. (June 13, 2008)

Study shows NBA star players make winning coaches
Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)

Cornell Hillel awards Tanner Prize to Irwin Jacobs '54 and family
Irwin '54 and Joan Jacobs '54 and their son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs, are the recipients of this year's Tanner Prize for significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell. (June 13, 2008)

Cornell to close East Avenue, June 16-21, for building project
East Avenue from University Avenue to Tower Road will close beginning 6 a.m., Monday, June 16, until 6 p.m., Saturday, June 21, to facilitate the physical sciences building construction project. (June 12, 2008)

David Harris to present classes on inequality to alums
David Harris, deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences at Cornell, will present a discussion on poverty and inequality, 'Opportunity 101: What Affects Access,' June 18 in New York City. (June 12, 2008)

Student engineers break balloon altitude record
The early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin, also Cornell systems engineering master's students, broke the previous amateur altitude record by nearly 5,000 feet. (June 12, 2008)

Head of Internal Transfer Division reflects on her career
Vivian Geller, director of Cornell's Internal Transfer Division for nearly 30 years, reflects on her career and on working closely with Cornell students. (June 12, 2008)

Retaining top talent
Why do employees leave? John Hausknecht, of the ILR School, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Harrah's Entertainment surveyed 2,500 hospitality employees to find out. (June 12, 2008)

EAP and medical leaves offices move to Community Corners
The Medical Leaves Administration and the Employee Assistance Program will be at Community Corners effective July 1. Their old phone numbers will work for several months. (June 12, 2008)

Meeting to consider urban forests uprooted by findings
Horticulturist Tom Whitlow reported at a Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC conference that planting trees as a strategy for reducing asthma 'is unlikely to work.' (June 11, 2008)

Estrogen may play key role in prostate cancer, researchers find
Using a new technique to extract genetic information from stored samples, researchers discovered a link between estrogen-dependent molecular pathways and a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. (June 11, 2008)

Robert Constable to step down as CIS dean
Robert Constable will step down as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science when his second five-year term ends, June 30, 2009. (June 11, 2008)

Alice Pell named vice provost for international relations
Professor Alice Pell, who is director of Cornell's International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD), will assume her new position July 1. (June 10, 2008)

Faculty Diversity Institute looks at ways to diversify curriculum
The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity met June 1-4 to discuss ways to diversify Cornell's curriculum to address such issues as class, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion and sexual orientation. (June 10, 2008)

Intercampus partnership takes medicine into the wild
A growing partnership has Cornell outdoor experts and Weill Cornell physicians working together to teach wilderness medicine. (June 10, 2008)

Students fill Sibley Hall stairwell with their art
Students in Ewa Harabasz's Painting II class turned a stairwell in East Sibley Hall into a canvas for a spring semester project, inspired by graffiti and other painting techniques. (June 9, 2008)

Garbage-truck traffic through Ithaca poses safety concerns
Garbage-truck traffic through Ithaca -- instead of on the surrounding interstates -- does not save truckers time or much money, and is causing safety issues for the community, a Cornell study shows. (June 9, 2008)

ISS fellowships free Cornell social scientists to pursue research
The Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell is hosting 11 faculty fellows as part of its new in-residence program, awarding each a $10,000 grant to pursue their research beginning in September. (June 9, 2008)

Karen Brummund hangs public art installation on barn June 14-15
Artist and Cornell staffer Karen Brummund is inviting public participation in her latest installation, a full-scale drawing of a barn in Groton. (June 9, 2008)

Libel lawsuit against Cornell over 1983 news item is dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a Cornell graduate's $1 million lawsuit over a 1983 Cornell Chronicle report, recently made available on the Internet, that he had been charged with burglary when he was a student. (June 9, 2008)

Coverage of Reunion 2008
Links to stories and a slide show of Reunion Weekend, June 5-8, 2008. (June 8, 2008)

Alumni travel far to recapture Cornell memories at Reunion 2008
Thousands of Cornellians returned to campus June 5-8 to enjoy bright summer weather and warm memories. (June 8, 2008)

Faculty panelists discuss foreign policy issues
The next U.S. president will face the daunting task of re-establishing the nation's legitimacy on the global stage, said scholars in a reunion weekend roundtable. (June 7, 2008)

Skorton extols CU's banner year in State of the University speech
President David Skorton spoke to alumni about the accomplishments of the past year and emphasized that while science, technology and engineering are thriving on campus, so too are the social sciences, humanities and arts. (June 7, 2008)

Claire Shipman delivers insights, quips on presidential politics
The nationally respected journalist shared her thoughts on this year's presidential campaign at the 2008 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture, June 6. (June 7, 2008)

Wine expert tells alumni of U.S. wine's tumultuous history
The history of winemaking and grape growing was anything but smooth, according to wine expert Thomas Pinney, who gave a lecture to Cornell alumni June 5 during Reunion Weekend. (June 7, 2008)

Clean, white, open spaces and lots of light: Weill Hall opens
With great expectations, the $162 million, 263,000-square-foot building designed by architect Richard Meier will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move in this month. (June 6, 2008)

Cornell wins $184 million patent infringement suit
A federal court jury has found that Hewlett-Packard Corp. infringed on a Cornell patent for a computer instruction-processing technique and awarded the university $184 million in damages. (June 6, 2008)

Arecibo takes part in global collaboration
As part of a global network of observatories, Arecibo helped create an 11,000 km-diameter radio telescope with unparalleled resolution. (June 6, 2008)

Break away a cappella alums practice for Reunion Weekend
The Sherwoods are alumni who perform each year on Reunion Weekend. The group was formed in 1958 by renegade choristers who left the Glee Club to follow their own drummer, so to speak. (June 6, 2008)

Geri Gay's innovative work deepens digital crossroads
Geri Gay, chair of Cornell's Department of Communication, studies digital applications and then recommends improvements in how humans can better use technology. (June 6, 2008)

Cornell receives national award for its bioenergy initiatives
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell will receive a Grand Challenge award June 19 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its bioenergy vision paper. (June 6, 2008)

Bill and Chelsea Clinton visit Arecibo Observatory
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea got a warm welcome from Arecibo Observatory staff during a visit in the run-up to the Puerto Rico Democratic Presidential primary. (June 5, 2008)

Researcher tries to break link between obesity and diabetes
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are inextricably linked, but biochemist and geneticist Ling Qi is working to break that connection, and finding just the right gene could do it. (June 5, 2008)

The time is ripe for apples that taste like berries and more
Horticultural scientist Susan K. Brown is mining the apple genome for the keys to some revolutionary reconceptions of a long-familiar fruit. (June 5, 2008)

Videos offer tips on reducing breast-cancer risk
Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors has produced three online videos telling young women to avoid personal-care products, cosmetics and plastics containing chemicals that mimic estrogen and may increase breast-cancer risk. (June 5, 2008)

Transgenic plants don't hurt non-targeted bugs, study finds
Genetically modified plants that use Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests won't harm the pests' natural enemies, according to new research by Cornell entomologists. (June 3, 2008)

Garvey helps create new interactive approach to legal scholarship
Cornell Law School's Stephen Garvey is one of three leaders in a new online project that resembles 'American Idol' in that legal arguments that receive too few votes get kicked off the stage. (June 3, 2008)

Ong receives award from American Psychological Association
Anthony Ong, Cornell assistant professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, has been awarded the 2008 Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging. (June 3, 2008)

Cornell food scientist Frank Shipe dies at age 88
W. Frank Shipe, professor emeritus of food science at Cornell and a pioneer in testing milk for its flavor over time, died May 20 at the Alterra Sterling House in Ithaca. He was 88. (June 3, 2008)