The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded 11 seed grants and 11 small grants to faculty from five Cornell colleges in its spring 2014 grant competitions.
A partnership between International Programs in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is training African students in advanced cassava breeding.
Faculty members Andrea Bachner, Victoria Beard, Saurabh Mehta and Daniel Selva will start three-year terms this summer as Cornell’s first cohort of International Faculty Fellows with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
A new report calls for saving half of the 1.5 billion acres of North America's boreal forest – one of the world's last great forests – to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species.
The Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China has made grants to Cornell faculty members and graduate students to support collaborative research projects.
A proposal to develop a portable, affordable turbidimeter, a tool for measuring water quality, has won a $90,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
With as much as 40 percent of the world’s potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near in the form of a rice gene.
Aside from that energy jolt, food scientists say you may reap another health benefit from a daily cup of joe: prevention of deteriorating sight and possible blindness from retinal degeneration.
