Cornell researchers have discovered that heat leads to nitrogen loss in desert soils, a finding that may require climate change models to be altered. (Nov. 5, 2009)
This fall Cornell is taking the 'local foods' concept to a whole new level by buying corn, potatoes, squash and ornamental gourds directly from Cornell's farms. (Nov. 4, 2009)
On a drizzly gray day, visitors were cheered Oct. 23 by a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Plantations Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at the Mullestein Winter garden, next to Plantations Road. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Cornell was recently recognized as one of only 13 schools - and the first Ivy League School - by the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Campus USA program for practicing sound campus forestry for 2009. (Oct. 27, 2009)
It started with a roll of duct tape used to stop automatic toilets from flushing too often. Such small measures, led by Alumni Affairs and Development's Julie Featherstone, have led to big savings. (Oct. 22, 2009)
Cornell's 100+ MPG Team is one of 43 that have made it to the next stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Competition, contest officials announced Oct. 19. (Oct. 20, 2009)
AguaClara, a program in civil and environmental engineering in which students design municipal drinking water plants, celebrated the groundbreaking of its fifth full-scale facility last month. (Oct. 20, 2009)
For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)
Cornell's innovative Silo House earned a seventh-place finish in the biennial Solar Decathlon competition, held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 16, 2009)
On Sept. 25 landscape architecture students transformed a parking space in Collegetown into a park for a day to promote green spaces in cities. (Sept. 25, 2009)
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County has received some $317,000 of stimulus funding to provide training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for green jobs. (Sept. 22, 2009)
