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Three Cornell undergrads collaborated on an interdisciplinary class project in Spring 2020. The experience changed their academic trajectories.
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Dr. Bridgen, a Professor of Horticulture and Plant Breeding, and Director of LIHREC since 2002, formed a plan with friends of LIHREC to establish an endowment to fund student internships in 2008. After establishing the initial principal to start...
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The popular biennial Plagues and People course focuses on epidemics in history that have had the biggest impacts on human culture and society.
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Around 1,450 Cornell students completed their studies this month. While the December Recognition Ceremony was canceled, some shared their university experiences.
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AgriTech began offering a cider-making course at its Geneva, New York, campus in 2009 – one of few such courses offered in North America. The weeklong, intensive course, officially titled Cider and Perry Production: A Foundation, teaches...
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A $4 million gift has established two new scholarships for low-income immigrants or children of immigrants, and supports programming in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The gift honors two alumni brothers of Japanese descent whose family had been incarcerated in internment camps during World War II.
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Pining for ice cream? This campy mix of graham cracker swirl, fudge, toasted marshmallow flavor and berries, has won top honors in a food science class annual competition.
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In an oceanic omen for climate change’s intensifying effects, Cornell-led research shows that seagrass suffers from a wasting disease and root-system deterioration.
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Soviet plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov gathered thousands of specimens from around the globe with hopes of cultivating crops to eradicate hunger – and yet, he starved to death in a prison cell. His offense: Daring to criticize the flawed agriculture sponsored by Josef Stalin, which led to famine and the death of millions in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
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Cultural norms and trends used to be set by influential people in a few specific ways – in music, in films and on media outlets such as television and newspapers. Those days are long gone: Now there are myriad platforms through which “influencers” can set or reset cultural mores.
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Cornell BrAIn, initiated and led by the College of Arts & Sciences, will host a two-day symposium Dec. 9-10, bringing together innovators in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and neuroscience.
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A livestock genome repository of living stem cell cultures could preserve livestock diversity to ensure sustainability and resilience in the face of climate change.
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Combining the strengths of Cornell University and the World Food Prize, the New York Youth Institute prepares next-generation leaders in global development, agriculture, nutrition and technology. The program empowers students to research issues...
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A Cornell program is playing a key role in a project to make rice more resilient to climate change and increase production in West Africa, thanks to a four-year, $14 million grant from the Adaptation Fund.
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The nine undergrads will be arriving on campus through December, thanks to robust international and cross-campus collaborations. Cornell has pledged support until they graduate.
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Forty-four graduate students have been selected as new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows, joining Cornell’s community of nearly 200 NSF GRFP fellows currently on campus.
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Moonshadow, a new variety of grape tomato, is a high-flavor, traditionally bred tomato derived from crosses with heirloom varieties. It’s aimed at organic growers, small farms and home gardeners.
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Mario Herrero and Johannes Lehmann each made the 2021 list of most influential scientists.
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