Map That Campus XLIII

This is an easy one for me. Far above Cayuga's waters...
The hint refers to Bethe?

This photo is outdated. The leftmost of the 3 athletic practice fields (dead center) has been replaced by a very large research building. Also, it is snowing right now.

The basketball team is leading the Ivy League right now, and has a home game against Yale tonight.

hint: Powering all life

This must be a reference to Lynn Margulis' talk last week (Feb 14, 2008) as part of Darwin Days. She spoke mostly about endosymbiosis, the theory that certain eukaryotic organelles, including mitochondria and chloroplasts, are the descendants of captured bacteria.

Carl Sagan's (former) house is visible just about Ithaca Falls, and his burial plot is near the upper left edge of the image.

hint: Powering all life

This must be it: Nanomotors

ITHACA, N.Y. --Coupling the organic and inorganic, biological engineers at Cornell University have demonstrated the feasibility of extremely small, self-propelled bionic machines that do their builders' bidding in plant and animal cells, including those in humans.

Such machines could travel through the body, functioning as mobile pharmacies, for example, dispensing precise doses of chemotherapy drugs exclusively to cancer cells.
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Just how old is that image anyway? I don't see the Robert J. Kane Sports Complex.

Here's a list of Nobel laureates affiliated with Cornell University.

Does this have something to do with Ef Racker's discovery of the F1 subunit of ATP synthase?

OK I'll end the misery - Cornell is the answer. The hint refers to Bethe, and the last line "what must be shown" refers to another famous Cornell prof who was a Nobel laureate.

I like that Margulis was implicated (although she's at U Mass and I guess gave a recent lecture at Cornell.)

So how old is the photo?

I'm not sure what the resolution is, you'll have to ask Yahoo. Incidentally, Google Maps only has a very low resolution photo of Ithaca - if I were you I'd give those guys hell!

The low resolution mapping is a matter of national security. After 9-11 there was a great deal of concern that terrorists would take an interest in blowing up waterfalls.