Professor Martin Wiedmann will head a national effort in collaboration with six other universities to engage thousands of children, college students, teachers and professionals in food safety programs.
Tompkins County residents voiced their opinions June 28 about whether the city of Ithaca should allow Cornell to install nets under three city-owned bridges on and adjacent to campus. (June 29, 2011)
More than four dozen teachers attended a three-day workshop at Cornell to get ideas on how to integrate information about international food customs and food production into their curricula.
Various Cornellians reaped prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, June 11-14, including a student team who took first prize for developing cassava cookies for poor countries.
Two Cornell experts are teaming up to tackle salmonella contamination in produce, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative through the USDA.
Cornell has strengthened its presence in Africa by formalizing a research relationship with the Faculty of AgriSciences of Stellenbosch University in South Africa. (June 27, 2011)
A benefit concert for Japanese relief efforts, featuring Cornell's new baroque organ, will be held Saturday, July 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Cornell's Anabel Taylor Chapel. (June 22, 2011)
To foster the growth of equitable, healthful and sustainable community food systems, Cornell will receive $1 million of a five-year, $5 million multistate project. (June 21, 2011)