Cornell's Sutton Road solar farm opens in Geneva

Cornell's new Sutton Road solar farm, a facility that will offset 40 percent of the electricity at the university's agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York, has become operational.

Poor cell phone coverage creates a 'mobile divide'

Having mapped cell-phone signal strength, Cornell researchers find that low-income regions receive less network coverage compared to their affluent counterparts.

Minglin Ma wins Hartwell award for diabetes work

Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has won a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, worth $300,000 over three years.

Two on faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

Two Cornell researchers were elected as new members of the National Academy of Sciences May 3.

Retweeting may overload your brain

Reposting or otherwise sharing messages creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining the content.

Design alumna shares lessons on sustainability, life

Jessica Cooper ’07 delivered the biennial Glenn H. Beyer Memorial Lecture April 27 on campus. She is executive vice president and director of sustainability at Delos Solutions.

ILR School program remedies class-action settlement

The ILR School's Labor and Employment Law Program will begin work on a $4.9 million contract to establish the Records Assistance Program to help job applicants with criminal records get jobs.

Rewards encourage junk-food junkies to eat more healthfully

Consumers who have poor eating habits and who are overweight benefit the most from long-term reward "points" incentives than if they are offered price reductions, according to new Cornell research.

Solar-powered tag allows tracking of songbird migration

Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler has developed the first lifetime-solar-powered tag for small songbirds to track them.