$25M grant fuels Cornell’s efforts to boost global crop resilience

This renewed funding will enable the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement to strengthen its interdisciplinary efforts to support demand-driven, socially responsive crop improvement programs in key regions around the world.

Benjamin Houlton reappointed CALS dean

The Cornell Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee voted Oct. 14 to approve a new five-year term, effective July 1, 2025.

Students look to cast their votes with enthusiasm – and nuance

When it comes to the U.S. elections, students are engaging with the ideas, conversing across difference and recognizing complexity - and are eager to vote, many for the first time.

NYS-Himalaya pollinator project receives $1.8M grant

The project will compare smallholder apple farms in the Western Himalayas and in Central New York to study how people might act collectively to promote wild pollinator health.  

Gift names the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health

A gift totaling $25 million from Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56 and the Jacobs family includes a new $15 million commitment, adding to a $10 million commitment in 2023 that helped establish the center.

Tiny soil critters play by their own rules in urban parks

The assortment of species of tiny soil animals – small enough to stand on the head of a pin – differ from one urban park to another, unlike plants and larger animals where a few species are often found across many parks. 

Winter Session 2025 registration is now open

Online Winter Session classes run January 2–18, 2025.

Around Cornell

Things to do: Insectapalooza, nature walk, music and storytelling

The creepy crawlies are king at Insectapalooza this weekend, but there are many other things to do across campus this week, from events to help you find balance and mindfulness to a musical duo that weaves traditional storytelling into their performances.

Climate change brings challenges, and opportunities, to Finger Lakes wineries

In a wetter, hotter, more turbulent weather world, New York state wineries will endure new hardship, but they may be better off than most.