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Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise
The Cornell Fuel Cell Institute brings together an interdisciplinary team from eight faculty research groups to make fuel cells practical as an everyday source of clean energy.
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Cornell launches systems engineering online degree program
The new program, recently approved by New York state, is the first online degree offered by the College of Engineering.
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Matthew Zarracina studies systems engineering from Iraq
The U.S. Navy lieutenant and Cornell ROTC instructor is enrolled in an online systems engineering course while deployed in Baghdad.
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Cornell Police wins Excellence in Traffic Safety award
Cornell Police Department has won the Law Enforcement Challenge Excellence in Traffic Safety award for its traffic safety programs, competing against all New York state campus law enforcement agencies.
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Alum's organic winery uses 'green' to make reds and whites
John Williams '74, who co-founded Frog's Leap winery in the Napa Valley, was one of the first to use sustainable organic practices to produce one.
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Viticulture and enology is now an official major
Students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences can now major in viticulture and enology -- grape growing and winemaking -- in the fall.
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Letter to the editor: Female firefighter story hits a nerve
Nancy Tilton of Champaign, Ill., talks about her 26 years of experience as a female firefighter.
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Law School's 260 graduates attend convocation ceremony
The annual private event was hosted by Stewart J. Schwab, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law. Degrees will be conferred at the university's commencement ceremony, May 25.
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Kathleen Vogel awarded Carnegie grant
Assistant Professor Kathleen Vogel will use the grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a study on U.S. and former Soviet Union bioweapons history.
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Cornell-Nepal Studies Program weathers a civil war
A peaceful political resolution to the civil war in Nepal should boost enrollment in the Cornell-Nepal Study Program, Cornell Abroad's only campus-administered program.
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William Block discusses his role as CISER's new director
William Block, who is completing his first semester as director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, talks about CISER's role in helping the social science community, on campus and beyond.
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Gordon Sander '72 views Cornell then and now in photo exhibit
Capturing Cornell moments, from the silly to the sublime, over the past 40 years is the focus of 'The Cornell Zone: 1968-2008,' a photography exhibition by Gordon F. Sander '72, on view May 16-Sept. 15.
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Faculty, staff, student, alumni members elected to board of trustees
Professor Rosemary Avery has been elected a faculty trustee; Beth McKinney '82, director of the Wellness Program, is Cornell's employee trustee; graduate student Michael Walsh is the student trustee; and Elizabeth J. Altman '88 and Ronni S. Chernoff '67 were elected by the alumni as alumni trustees.
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'Farm kid from Wisconsin' fights bugs with bugs
Mike Hoffmann, director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, oversees $5.1 million in research projects and helps create a 'culture of sustainability' on campus.
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How new U.S. biofuel legislation will subsidize oil consumption
Harry de Gorter and David Just, both Cornell professors of applied economics and management, argue that U.S. energy legislation meant to encourage ethanol production actually subsidizes oil consumption.
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On the beauty of Saturn and spring
In a letter to the editor, June Gee of Cornell Law School expresses appreciation to the Chronicle for 'bringing the vast world of Cornell to our doorsteps and our computers.'
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