The Cornell Vegetable Program is looking at how to promote the growing and marketing of such ethnic vegetables as shiso, maxixe, tasoi and komatsuna. (Jan. 11, 2012)
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing has received a High-Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award for crunching hepatitis C virus data on its experimental MATLAB computing resource. (Jan. 9, 2012)
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Cornell plant pathologists are warning New York apple and pear growers after discovering that a strain of fire blight is resistant to traditional treatments. (Jan. 6, 2012)
The willow bioenergy program has a new $950,000 grant for breeding willow and installing a boiler to heat two buildings at Cornell's experiment station in Geneva.
At a U.S. Congressional hearing Dec. 6, economist Rick Geddes urged lawmakers to concentrate on the crowded Northeast corridor for high-speed rail development, rather than less populous regions. (Jan. 6, 2012)
Oceanographer Chuck Greene is working to optimize an ocean-observing tool to collect and transmit ecosystem data to his desktop in real time, tracking the ocean like the weather. (Jan. 5, 2012)
RFID technology repurposed for tracking birds automates data collection, requiring scientists to spend only a few hours a week tending to feeders wired with tracking technology.
