Trip provides insights in Israeli agribusiness

Fifteen students recently spent a week in Israel to glean insights into agribusiness in the Middle Eastern country.

Four on faculty receive Carpenter advising awards

Cornell faculty members Sam Beck, Nelson Hairston, Alicia Orta-Ramirez and Thomas Ruttledge have been chosen for the 2013 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards.

N.Y.'s climate change clearinghouse to offer info to all

To study the effects of global warming, scientists will begin collaborating this summer on the New York Climate-Change Science Clearinghouse, a comprehensive, web-based reference, map and database.

Leading economist to head India health initiative

Prabhu Pingali, former World Bank economist and deputy director of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be spearheading a Cornell effort to help reduce poverty and malnutrition in India.

Scientists find clues to some inherited heart diseases

Cornell researchers have uncovered the basic cell biology that helps explain heart defects found in laminopathies, which account for up to 10 percent of all cases of inherited heart disease.

Cassava database becomes open access

The $25.2 million Next Generation Cassava Breeding project at Cornell has released a database that features all the breeding data on cassava for open access data sharing.

In Cambodia, Uphoff touts SRI successes

Professor Norman Uphoff discussed the System of Rice Intensification April 5 at the closing session of Cambodia's fourth annual national farmers conference in Phnom Penh.

Things to Do, May 3-10

Events on campus this week include music and culture from Turkey, Java, Japan and Korea; student film screenings, a Glacier Gala, a 5K walk/run benefiting local pets, and a talk on math and crocheting.

Big Red's Green Bay Packer heads to Wisconsin May 9

JC Tretter '13 will play big-time football come this fall. He was drafted to play for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and reports to training in May.