The $13 million Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other related physical science approaches to advance research on cancer.
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The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades.
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On a drizzly gray day, visitors were cheered Oct. 13 by a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Plantations Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at the Mullestein Winter garden, next to Plantations Road.
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Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College, talked about his career and research, which includes developing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, in a talk on campus Oct. 20.
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Cornell will return to a 'healthy pace' of faculty hiring by 2015, said President David Skorton in the State of the University address Oct. 23. He also emphasized that the path to Cornell's future leads out of its past.
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In his Oct. 22 Hatfield Lecture, the CEO of SC Johnson urged business, government and consumers to work together to save the environment.
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Historian Carol Kammen discussed the experiences of black students early in Cornell's history Oct. 15 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.
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It started with a roll of duct tape used to stop automatic toilets from flushing too often. Such small measures, led by Alumni Affairs and Development's Julie Featherstone, have led to big savings.
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The Cornell Society of Women Engineers received the Gold Level Award for Outstanding Collegiate Section at the national SWE conference held Oct. 15-17 in Long Beach, Calif.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson gave a lecture Oct. 20 to launch Cornell Library's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth and a new exhibition on Lincoln.
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