The demand for organic foods has doubled in the past decade and continues to grow. As a result, Cornell, the land-grant institution of New York state, is increasingly devoting more of its resources to researching ways to improve all aspects of organic agriculture, including soil health, seed availability, dairy health and crop production.
Even though the labor movement is stronger in Europe than in the United States, trade unionists in both places have plenty to learn from each other because it's becoming tougher to protect workers' rights on both sides of the Atlantic.
On July 15, the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), which is affiliated with Cornell, will open a new exhibit on ammonoids, prehistoric sea animals that first appeared in the fossil record 400 million years ago, survived four major extinctions and died out with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Women who take soy or herbal supplements, such as black cohosh, red clover and ginseng, should do so with care, says an expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell.
If it's savory and scrumptious, it must be Bocados. With a bite-size Latino-style delicacy, Cornell food science students are vying for the school's fourth national championship at the annual Student Food Product Development competition.
They may not all become doctors or physicists, Mae Jemison knows. But by the end of the summer, the 22 students who gathered quietly on the morning of July 2 in Cornell's Tatkon Center will have a running start if they do decide on careers in science.
Would you travel halfway around the world to talk about Wittgenstein? Many graduate students and professors do just that. The famed philosopher's work in logic and language is among the studies tackled each summer by participants in the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) at Cornell.
Lara Estroff, a materials scientist who studies how seashells and bones are formed and then tries to synthesize new materials in the laboratory that emulate the versatility of these natural composites, became the first College of Engineering faculty member hired as part of Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative
Cornell biophysicists have gleaned new insights into brain cell metabolism that will allow neurologists to better interpret data from such diagnostic tests as positron emission tomography (PET) scans and a specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test.
Last July the U.S. government officially declared that genocide was occurring in the Darfur region of western Sudan. This July 12 a group of Cornell students will begin a Ride Against Genocide, a 600-mile bike ride to help rally the world to halt it. Their destination is Ottawa.
Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose realistic Mars rover mission animations have been shown on television news programs the world over, received an Emmy Award nomination for his animation featured in the PBS Nova documentary 'Mars Dead or Alive.'
