Smithers Institute receives grant to study veteran transition

The Smithers Institute at the ILR School has been awarded a Defense Department research grant for a four-year study examining the transition from military to civilian employment.

Schumer announces $68.9 million for USDA grape lab at Cornell AgriTech

After years of advocating for funding to improve the infrastructure for grape research, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced Feb. 26 $68.9 million to build a new federal grape genetics research lab at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York.

Edgar Gasteiger, biologist and Cornell ‘citizen,’ dies at 99

Edgar Gasteiger, professor emeritus of physical biology, died on Feb. 9 in Ithaca, New York, at age 99. 

Living shorelines offer hope for state’s coastal communities

As climate change threatens coastal areas, experts from the New York Sea Grant program are involved in a project to protect the state’s shorelines and the people who live near them.

Michał Matejczuk named a 2019-20 Luce Scholar

Graduate student Michał Matejczuk has been named a Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation and will spend a year working in Asia starting this summer.

Architecture, art alumni complete new Casapoli Residency

Recent architecture and art alumni Brian Havener and Pauline Shongov recently spent a month furthering research and initiating creative work at a house on the Coliumo Peninsula in Chile, as recipients of the inaugural Casapoli Residency.

Raindrops launch plant spores into the wind, spread fungi

Researcher from Cornell and Virginia Tech have identified the process by which fungus is spread from plant to plant, carrying disease that costs billions annually in lost crops.

Book marks Tompkins County’s place in suffrage movement

A new book by Tompkins County historian Carol Kammen and Elaine Engst, M.A. ’72, looks at the history of the women’s suffrage movement by examining it in microcosm at the local level.

ILR’s Yang-Tan Institute gives youth with disabilities a boost

A research project supported by the ILR School's Yang-Tan Institute is helping to give young people with disabilities a chance at better lives through education, work.