The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $25M in a project, hosted at Cornell, that seeks to improve cassava crops in sub-Saharan Africa. (Nov. 30, 2012)
David Erickson and Largus Angenent have received a $910,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to work toward revolutionizing how biofuels are produced from algae. (Nov. 29, 2012)
The grant will help repair damage to Cascadilla Gorge trail caused by flooding in fall 2011 and restore the trail to its historic appearance, as it looked when it was built in the 1920s and 1930s. (Nov. 28, 2012)
Graduate students Darrick Nighthawk Evensen, M.S. '11, and Christine Moskell, M.S. '12, have received $126,000 research fellowships from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Nov. 28, 2012)
An international consortium of scientists has published the genome sequence of watermelon, providing information that could dramatically accelerate watermelon breeding. (Nov. 27, 2012)
Along with these new finds, James Liebherr, professor and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has discovered about half of the 400 total known Mecyclothorax species. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Cornell's programs in undergraduate and graduate architecture, graduate landscape architecture and graduate interior design have been ranked in the Top 5 in DesignIntelligence's annual survey. (Nov. 20, 2012)
A new internship will expose students to employment and community involvement opportunities in upstate New York so that they will later work in the state. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Keith Tidball, a senior extension associate in the Department of Natural Resources, provides veterans with access to nature, which has proven valuable in helping them cope with a variety of disorders. (Nov. 16, 2012)
