On Oct. 6 President Elizabeth Garrett visited the university's New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, where she lauded its work and contributions to New York state's economy.
An expansion of Cornell Cooperative Extension's Harvest NY agriculture program allows the program to extend its economic development activities to support farmers in northern New York state.
In an Oct. 1 campus talk, Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, professor of development sociology, said the population structure of a nation is the most important factor in resource allocations and policy.
From Buffalo to Long Island, the North Country to the Southern Tier, Cornell undergraduates – serving as interns – spent their summer enhancing life in New York.
Cornell researchers have used mathematical models to illuminate the promises – and potential problems – of a new genome editing mechanism, called a gene drive.
Eight faculty members from four colleges were honored recently with awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, allowing them to expand courses or add teaching assistants.
With a $1 million Mellon grant and a goal of building a model college-in-prison network, the Cornell Prison Education Program will expand to offer classes and degree programs in four upstate prisons.
Examining changes in parental unions near the time of childbirth, Cornell social science researchers have found that premarital births do not predict breakups so long as couples marry – at some point – after a child is born.
Facing challenging terrain where plant roots must cope with barriers, Cornell physicists and Boyce Thompson Institute plant biologists have discovered a valuable plant root action.
