Greg Budney, audio curator of the Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, traveled to Guatemala's Peten region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological sites. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Cornell vegetable experts are working with New York Amish and Mennonite communities in using high-tunnel technology, a sort of plastic greenhouse that keeps plants warmer and extends the growing season. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Vice Provost for the Life Sciences Stephen Kresovich welcomed nine new graduate students selected as this year's Presidential Life Sciences Fellows at an Aug. 29 reception. (Sept. 4, 2008)
The Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell, launched with a $10 million NSF grant, will apply computer science to problems in managing and allocating natural resources. (Sept. 3, 2008)
In the journal Nature, an international team of researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born. (Sept. 2, 2008)
Cornell's sustainability initiatives, and outreach and extension efforts are on display at the 162nd New York State Fair, Aug. 29-Sept. 1. (Aug. 24, 2008)
For the fourth year in a row, Cornell's applied and engineering physics program has been ranked No. 1 among its peers, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 college rankings. (Aug. 22, 2008)
'Rural Retirement Migration,' a book written by Cornell development sociologists David L. Brown and Nina Glasgow, details the positive and negative effects of older people moving into communities. (Aug. 21, 2008)
