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The rust-resistant wheat cultivar development team at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) earned the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) 2021 Gene Stewardship Award for their long-standing innovations and strategies to combat wheat rust in...
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This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods.
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In a new Cornell-led food science study, researchers now demonstrate how viticultural trash could be a nutritive treasure. The group showed that two stilbenes – beneficial molecular compounds found in plants – can affect human intestines and the...
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Perry Ground ’91 travels around the world performing traditional Haudenosaunee stories, adapting them to the present while keeping their traditional spirit alive.
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In rural and Indigenous communities with limited access to weather data, generations of farmers, fishers, herders, hunters and orchardists have relied on indicators such as the first snowfall, emergence of a certain plant or arrival of a bird species to guide when to plant, harvest or perform other tasks. But because of climate change, many of these ecological patterns have shifted.
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A Cornell-led national network of scientists and farmers is developing new varieties of cover crops that are better adapted to local regions and stressors – changes that could carry a bevy of long-term and sustainable benefits for organic growers.
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There are no references to gender in a typical noncompete agreement, but they still have a more deleterious effect on women entrepreneurs than they do on men, according to Dyson professor Matt Marx.
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The 52 Cornell projects that have been funded with a total of $3.9 million, beginning Oct. 1, are administered through the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). They include a project from Qi Wang, professor of...
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Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.
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A new online course opens opportunities for scientists and agricultural development professionals to blend technical skills with the most advanced findings in social sciences.
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In his newest book, Cornell economist Eswar Prasad details how accelerating financial change – such as the rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin – will transform economies for better and worse.
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Thanks to grant funding from the USDA, the New York State Integrated Pest Management program is developing new virtual courses to help schools implement plans to manage pests such as rodents, head lice, bed bugs or yellow jackets.
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Cornell Botanic Gardens and faculty of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP), in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, have joined with the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ to help ensure that the nation’s language and cultural...
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The $16 million FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) Award will support Cornell’s hiring and retention of 10 new assistant professors over the next five years in three research clusters: quantitative...
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Breeding Insight – a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) project that provides cutting-edge resources to specialty crop breeding programs – and VitisGen2 – a multi-institution research collaboration led at Cornell AgriTech to develop new grape...
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Cornell Global Development is pleased to announce its Master of Professional Studies (MPS) class of 2022 . This year’s program will provide in-depth training to more than two dozen students who are mid-career professionals, scholars and aspiring...
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In its inaugural semester, the Critical Development Studies seminar series will bring together scholars and students for conversation around topics of economic power and environmental sustainability in North America and Asia. The new series in...
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Led by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development , the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement Minority Serving Institutions Fellowship Associate...
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“Many of the prospects laid out in the report are bleak,” said Madeline Keep ’21, an engineering master’s student and global virtual intern at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. “But while some of the damage we have caused is...
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