This fall, Cornell welcomed a Pakistani bureaucrat and a Bhutanese agricultural official to campus through the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. (Dec. 15, 2008)
A new pop-up book by Miyoko Chu, director of communications at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, celebrates diverse bird sounds in contrasting landscapes through art and audio. (Dec. 11, 2008)
Why have a number of research universities recently jumped on the bandwagon of building interdisciplinary institutes in the biomedical sciences? Cornell's Anthony Bretscher explains. (Dec. 11, 2008)
Cornell scientists have invented a new method that uses manure and other farm byproducts to remove a toxic substance from biogas, a renewable energy source derived from animal waste. (Dec. 4, 2008)
Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect and blemish free - tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The secret? He grows all his tomatoes in high tunnels. (Dec. 2, 2008)
Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, for assistants to help with their courses. (Nov. 25, 2008)
Hosted by the Department of Applied Economics and Management, the annual conference takes a look at next year's financial prospects for agriculture and agricultural products. (Nov. 19, 2008)
A detailed analysis of black carbon - the residue of burned organic matter - in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating climate change predictions. (Nov. 18, 2008)