The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.
Atkinson Hall officially opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 9, realizing its benefactors’ vision of the facility as a home for impact-driven research across grand challenges in sustainability, cancer biology and immunology, nutrition, global health and computational biology.
A Cornell grape geneticist is leading a $2.3 million multi-institutional project to understand how genetically identical grapevines are influenced by varying environmental conditions in three states.
The Cornell Maple Program is growing 18 species of perennial fruit- and nut-bearing plants within a maple sugarbush forest. They want to help maple producers be more resilient to economic challenges and extreme weather events, and offer unique products like maple-elderberry wine and maple-hazelnut spreads.
Farzan Hussainzada ’25 was awarded this year’s Class of 1964 John F. Kennedy Memorial Award to support his aspirations to become an immigration attorney.
The project aligns with Cornell Atkinson's core mission of supporting research that drives meaningful impact across public opinion, policy, and corporate practices.
In response to dairy industry needs, a team of researchers found that avian flu persisted in raw milk for as long as eight weeks when refrigerated - but also that it did not survive pasteurization and even some subpasteurization temperatures.