For 30 years Dilmun Hill Student Farm has provided opportunities for growing crops, leadership skills and community. Alumni credit the farm with shaping lives and careers. Read their stories, and what's next for Dilmun.
Researchers have developed a model that identifies prime farmland, habitats critical for biodiversity and areas suitable for solar development in New York, to help communities minimize land-use conflicts when making solar siting decisions. In the model, protecting biodiversity by avoiding ecologically sensitive areas increased annualized costs by 0.17% but resulted in more farmland being converted to solar.
Cornell-led research linking poverty and disease – and a promising path out of both – faces an uncertain future as federal science funding comes under pressure.
One of the newest additions to Cornell’s Living Lab, the anaerobic digester will generate electricity and provide a real-world testbed for researchers across campus.
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
Cornell researchers at the Willsboro Research Farm are helping northern New York farmers extend their short growing season through the use of high tunnels.
Cornell Cooperative Extension Harvest New York runs the Community Gardens Soil Testing Program, which offers free test results and advice to home gardeners anywhere in the state.
