CCE tiny house makes powerful energy impact

Part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension(CCE) Tompkins County Get Your Greenbacks program, the PowerHouse helps CCE educators tackle environmental issues and social inequities by making energy savings concepts tangible and easy to understand.

Regional partnership takes a chance on New York chickpeas

A Schuyler County-Cornell pilot project could help New York farmers diversify their crops and give regional food manufacturers a cost-effective source for the popular legume.

Margulies receives Levy faculty engagement award

Joseph Margulies, professor of the practice of law and government, has been awarded the 2021 George D. Levy Faculty Award for his work to break down barriers for previously incarcerated people in Tompkins County.

An unconventional send-off for veterinary class of 2021

The class comprises 107 newly minted veterinarians with career plans that range from emergency medicine to dairy practices and laboratory animal residencies.

NSF to fund research on ‘boundary spanning’ in Ph.D. studies

Kevin Kniffin, assistant professor at Dyson, is leading an NSF-funded study examining the career outcomes of interdisciplinary STEM graduate students, the environments in which they train, and how those environments relate to career outcomes.

Study tracks food’s value from farm to plate globally

A team of researchers, led by Dyson professors Chris Barrett and Miguel Gómez, has developed the “Global Food Dollar” method, which distributes the consumer’s net purchasing dollar across all farm and post-farmgate activities.

Researchers look to gut microbiome to improve bone health

A Cornell-led collaboration has been awarded a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the ways that the gut microbiome – that mass of microorganisms inside us all – impacts bone quality. 

Gift to establish K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics

The $24 million gift will enable the center’s unique mission to use bioacoustics to help conserve biodiversity in some of the most remote yet species-rich parts of the world.

New grad transformed lives with palazzo pants

Cornell women's volleyball's Alena Madar '21 used palazzo pants to transform the lives of tribal women in India.

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