Newfield student Cynthia Ulbing has been awarded an international internship from the World Food Prize Foundation. She is earning college credit working on campus through the New Visions Life Sciences program.
Cornell Dining helped Martin Andonov '13 refine his ideas for fast-food, high-quality Mediterranean offerings. Andonov, who won $15,000 for his concept, will launch a London eatery after graduation.
Adapt-N, a free Web-based tool, provides farmers with better estimates of nitrogen fertilizer needs for corn, in real time, throughout the season, saving money and the environment.
Three Cornell scientists have received a five-year, $9.9 million grant to study the environmental impact of dairy production systems in the Great Lakes region.
If the carnivorous U.S. population – as a whole – ate a more-vegetarian diet that included eggs and milk products, the environment would be greatly relieved, says a preliminary Cornell study.
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.