Students help South African winery, Thai bamboo-charcoal business over break

For 60 Cornell students, winter break ended early: In January they applied what they had learned in the classroom by working for three weeks on 14 international development projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Low altitude, high-flying beans to benefit Africa

Green beans native to Africa but bred and grown at Cornell hold the promise of generating higher-paying crops for sub-Saharan farmers.

New teaching vineyard in Yates County expands vines, wines resources

The 2.5-acre vineyard will serve as a site where CCE's Finger Lakes Grape Program can conduct applied research projects and demonstrations for current and prospective grape growers in the Finger Lakes region and beyond.

Former Borlaug fellow establishes new food science program in India

A 2006 Borlaug fellow from India has taken what he learned while at Cornell and established a food science and technology program in India.

Education graduates can opt for master's at Ithaca College

A new agreement will allow Cornell students who want to make teaching their career the option of completing their master's degree at Ithaca College.

Workshop on Oneida Lake focuses on trawl design

Cornell's Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake is a springboard for research in fisheries and aquatic ecology in New York state and place for such workshops as a November one on trawling.

Student group connects young designers to communities

Through DesignConnect, Cornell graduate and undergraduate students work in interdisciplinary teams to solve design problems for upstate New York communities.

Tapping into maple success through sanitation

Cornell-developed techniques to limit bacteria in maple tree taps are leading to increased sap quantity and quality for New York's $12.3 million maple industry. (Jan. 31, 2012)

Campus Area Farms offer lots of living lab space

Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers 352 acres - patchwork of 11 small farms - for test plots. (Jan. 30, 2012)