Edward Buckler, a Cornell and U.S. Department of Agriculture research geneticist, was elected a new member of the National Academy of Sciences April 29.
Cornell researchers received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study relationships between rice genetics, crop yields and climate.
With as much as 40 percent of the world’s potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near in the form of a rice gene.
For freshwater environmental education projects and for helping save the American eel throughout the New York City region, Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources Institute, has won a U.S. EPA Environmental Quality Award.
Aside from that energy jolt, food scientists say you may reap another health benefit from a daily cup of joe: prevention of deteriorating sight and possible blindness from retinal degeneration.
Recent transfer student and horticulture enthusiast Justin Kondrat ’14 has led a project with the help of nearly 100 Cornellians to plant some 50,000 blooming flowers that spell out the word “rooted” in 10-foot letters on Libe Slope; the display will glow nightly until May 1.
As invasive Pale and black swallow-wort vines spread across the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, Cornell researchers lead efforts to understand these pernicious plants.
In his Iscol lecture, land-mending advocate Luc Gnacadja warned that the worldwide problem of soil erosion contributes to poverty and hunger and threatens security and freedom.
