For Ezra, NYC campus would be 'a power in the land'

As technology entrepreneur himself, Ezra Cornell might see the new science and technology campus as a reiteration of everything he intended in founding his university. (Jan. 12, 2012)

On the New York veggie forefront: Tatsoi, shiso, maxixe and other ethnic delectables

The Cornell Vegetable Program is looking at how to promote the growing and marketing of such ethnic vegetables as shiso, maxixe, tasoi and komatsuna. (Jan. 11, 2012)

TEEAL Electronic library resource expands its reach

El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)

Strep-resistant fire blight found in New York orchards

Cornell plant pathologists are warning New York apple and pear growers after discovering that a strain of fire blight is resistant to traditional treatments. (Jan. 6, 2012)

Willow biofuels program ignites with new funding and boiler

The willow bioenergy program has a new $950,000 grant for breeding willow and installing a boiler to heat two buildings at Cornell's experiment station in Geneva.

Revolutionary tool will methodically track fish populations in the ocean

Oceanographer Chuck Greene is working to optimize an ocean-observing tool to collect and transmit ecosystem data to his desktop in real time, tracking the ocean like the weather. (Jan. 5, 2012)

Kids prefer lots of choices and colors on their plates

How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)

'Smart' bird feeders can track who eats when

RFID technology repurposed for tracking birds automates data collection, requiring scientists to spend only a few hours a week tending to feeders wired with tracking technology.

Ph.D. candidate Jillian Cohen named a 2012 Knauss fellow

The doctoral student in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources, will spend one year working for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow for 2012. (Jan. 5, 2012)