$1.6M grant may turn sediment into port city pay dirt

Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for creating ecologic gold from shipping port sediment.

Dick Cheney to speak on campus March 21

Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States, will speak at Cornell March 21 in Alice Statler Auditorium. His talk is sponsored by the Cornell University College Republicans.

At 90, Gilbert Levine leaves Einaudi Center post

Gilbert Levine, emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering, first retired in 1983 after more than 30 years on the Cornell faculty. He's giving it another try at age 90.

Crops hold harmful mutations that reduce productivity

New research reveals that even the highest performing maize crops contain rare harmful mutations that limit crop productivity.

Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate to survey Ithaca campus

Members of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate are actively working toward an end-of-semester deadline to deliver specific recommendations to President Martha E. Pollack.

Giving Day 2018 aims to make a lasting impact

March 20 is Cornell Giving Day, the fourth annual day of giving dedicated to supporting the university and unifying Cornellians all over the world.

Teukolsky to explore the Dark Universe in Spring Hans Bethe Lecture

Cornell astrophysicist Saul Teukolsky will explain gravitational waves and other phenomena March 28 as part of the Hans Bethe Lecture at Cornell.

Sustainability sows a healthy business climate

The color of money may be the best tint for keeping the world from warming was a key message at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium, “Unleashing the Hidden Power of Sustainability,” on March 10.  

Military women discuss service, careers

Women military veterans and ROTC students held a panel discussion March 7 on women in the military, in recognition of Military Women in History Month.

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