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catalogs partners and stakeholders in Cornell’s efforts.academics and operations will work together to create asustainable campus and develop a living laboratory thatFive buildings voted “exemplary”New York green buildingsApril 2, 2012—Cornell’s campus just got greener.Five of its buildings were recognized as exemplary NewYork State green buildings at the 10th Annual New Yorkhighest honor for sustainable building design andconstruction, and are waiting final approval; the latterGold.Faculty AchievementsSkorton co-leads group to cut footballconcussionsJuly 21, 2011—accepted a series of recommendations made by aspecial ad hoc committee—co-chaired by Cornellthe goal of lowering the incidence of concussion andsubconcussive hits in football. The recommendations,to take effect this coming season, include limits to thenumber of full-pad/contact practices that can takeplace throughout the football year. Also, there will befurther emphasis on educating student-athletes onproper tackling technique, the signs and symptomsof concussion, and the potential short- and long-termramifications of repetitive brain trauma.Noah Snavely recognized as a toptech innovatorAugust 23, 2011—Technology Review magazine hasnamed Noah Snavely, assistant professor of computerselection of top technology innovators under age 35.Technology Review, published by the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, annually honors researchersunder 35 whose work the editors find most exciting, in awide array of disciplines, including medicine, computing,communications, electronics, and nanotechnology.Snavely has developed methods to match the detailsof many still photographs of the same scene and stitchthem together into a 3-D rendering.Law’s Barcelo named to French Legionof HonorApril 4, 2012—Searching for the right place to launchcontinues to broaden ties between the two countries,the highest recognition France gives noncitizens.Four elected to American Academyof Arts and SciencesApril 18, 2012—The 232nd class of AAAS fellowsincludes leaders from academia, business, public affairs,the humanities, and the arts. Three faculty memberselected were: Steven H. Strogatz, the Jacob GouldD. Gilovich, professor of psychology; and Joseph J.Weill Cornell Medical College and an emeritus memberClark elected to National Academyof SciencesMay 2, 2012—Andrew G. Clark, the Jacob Gouldbeen elected to the National Academy of Sciences.He is among 84 new members of the academyannounced May 1. The academy recognizes scientists’“distinguished and continuing achievements in originalbasis of adaptive variation in natural populations, withemphasis on quantitative modeling of phenotypes asnetworks of interacting genes.41