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• Richard Durst to head Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature

  Richard A. Durst, professor emeritus of chemistry in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NYSAES in Geneva, N.Y., and adjunct Cornell professor in the BEE department, was elected president of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.

• Upward Bound preps 50 regional high schoolers for college | Cornell Chronicle feature | 07/29/2008 Chronicle Feature

  Upward Bound, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, brings high school students to universities to give them academic support with an emphasis on college preparation.

• Taking wireless to a new level, Alyssa Apsel seeks to build integrated system of tiny radios | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/06/2008 Chronicle Feature

  Associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Alyssa Apsel's lab designs circuits for electronic devices, which are getting smaller, faster and more efficient by the minute.

• Inaugural research forum focuses on next-generation accelerator project | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/07/2008 Chronicle feature

  The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg Hoffstaetter in a lecture to faculty and staff.

• French writer, German scholar and British poet named A.D. White Professors-at-Large | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/13/2008 Chronicle feature
  Cornell has appointed Hélène Cixous, Hans Föllmer and Denise Riley as A.D. White Professors-at-Large through June 2014. Professors-at-large scheduled to visit this fall are Shri Kulkarni, Bassam Tibi, Okko Behrends, J. Craig Venter and Lakhdar Brahimi.
• Sustainability a key word for CU at New York State Fair | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/24/2008 Chronicle feature

  Sustainability was the word of the day as Cornell President David Skorton, deans from Cornell's Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology, and Cornell Cooperative Extension...

• Cornell Urban Scholars gain perspective, experience from summer program | Cornell Chronicle feature | 08/25/2008 Chronicle feature

  Tywanquila Walker spent the summer working with families in New York City and came away with a new perspective on research and working with communities. She was part of the seventh class in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP).

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