Matthew Willmann, director of the new Plant Transformation Facility, is harnessing precision technology to create transgenic and gene-edited plants on campus for Cornell researchers.
Artist and design and environmental analysis professor Jack Elliott has created a tree sculpture, "Animus," to draw attention to climate justice, the focus of a conference on campus May 24-25.
A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation," will be launched during the annual Discovery Channel Shark Week (June 26 - July 3).
Stretching beyond the "apple a day" adage, Cornell students explored an Ithaca nature setting and Belizean villages to see how common plant life helps alleviate ailments.
With an aim to create clean, renewable geothermal energy projects, and to cooperate in research and education, Cornell and Geothermal Resource Park Iceland have signed a memorandum of agreement.
Three leaders from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will serve on a new commission addressing domestic and global food security challenges and ensuring universal food security by 2050.
A New York state subsidy of 5 cents per school lunch just one day per week for the purchase of local fruits and vegetables would likely boost New York farmers and local economies, a new report finds.
The New York Climate Science Clearinghouse features New York-specific climate to provide the public and policymakers access to the most recent and credible information available to inform decisions.
Ten Cornell faculty in the social sciences, humanities and arts will be next year’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future faculty-in-residence fellows working on sustainability projects.
Cornell's new Sutton Road solar farm, a facility that will offset 40 percent of the electricity at the university's agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York, has become operational.
