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Jason Koski/Cornell University Following the Cornell Veterans Celebration on Nov. 9 in Statler Hall, Air Force ROTC cadet Marco Martini ’27, far right, and fellow students thanked members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 377 for their service and donation of a bronze plaque expressing “deep appreciation” to Cornell ROTC’s Tri-Service Brigade. The plaque will be installed in Barton Hall.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, associate professor of astronomy and author of “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos,” said the thousands of exoplanets detected to date suggest there are “billions and billions” of possibilities for life beyond Earth.