The stinky bloom of a rare corpse plant attracts thousands to Cornell as the university opened its greenhouse doors to the public and live-streamed the event through two separate feeds. (March 21, 2012)
Meridian 180, an online and transpacific think tank in three languages for multidisciplinary working groups from around the world to promote real policy changes, has officially launched. (March 20, 2012)
Botanical gardens and arboreta play many roles in local communities, stressed Donald Rakow, director of Cornell Plantations, in a talk at New York City's 92nd Street Y March 14. (March 20, 2012)
Less than a year after after publication, a technique - genotyping-by-sequencing - to analyze genetic information is taking off because the method is cheap and easy, and it generates terabytes of data. (March 19, 2012)
Kaitlin Hardy '12, a sufferer of seizures, founded a student organization that raises awareness of the disorder on campus and in the community, and runs Cornell's only student-run lab. (March 19, 2012)
Abbas Maleki, Iran's deputy foreign minister 1988-1997, offered insights into how Iran views itself vis a vis its current tensions with the West. (March 13, 2012)