Workshop on Oneida Lake focuses on trawl design

Cornell's Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake is a springboard for research in fisheries and aquatic ecology in New York state and place for such workshops as a November one on trawling.

Student group connects young designers to communities

Through DesignConnect, Cornell graduate and undergraduate students work in interdisciplinary teams to solve design problems for upstate New York communities.

Itai Dinour '01 leads effort to keep NYC students in school

Itai Dinour '01 leads City Year New York, which attracts Cornellians to work with at-risk public school students and stem the tide of drop outs.

Tapping into maple success through sanitation

Cornell-developed techniques to limit bacteria in maple tree taps are leading to increased sap quantity and quality for New York's $12.3 million maple industry. (Jan. 31, 2012)

Parent educators, researchers share wisdom at conference

New York state parent educators gathered at Cornell Jan. 25-26 to share research-based information on building parenting skills. (Jan. 30, 2012)

Campus Area Farms offer lots of living lab space

Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers 352 acres - patchwork of 11 small farms - for test plots. (Jan. 30, 2012)

Food safety inspires children to build LEGO machines

A national challenge attracted scores of 6- to 9-year-olds to campus to show off their team-built LEGO contraptions on the theme of food safety Jan. 28. (Jan. 30, 2012)

Eighth student-designed water plant rises in Honduran town

In a few months, nearly every home in Atima, Honduras, will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students. (Jan. 26, 2012)

Student-developed filter in Honduras is cause for a party

The stacked rapid sand filter, developed by members of Cornell's AguaClara research team, could well be the reason that Tamara now has some of the best water in all of Honduras. (Jan. 26, 2012)