The Genomic and Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative, operating under an $18.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working to develop new plant-breeding tools and genomic databases.
In a special climate change issue of the Review of Financial Studies, nine new research papers – including two from Cornell – have staked new territory for scholarly study: finance sustainability.
A research tracker created by Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication, has helped foster collaboration among social scientists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dogs have highly sensitive noses, a trait environmental conservationists, land managers and plant disease specialists are harnessing to sniff out invasive species.
Applications are now open for Year 2 of Grow-NY, the food and agriculture business competition administered by Cornell's Center for Regional Economic Advancement and funded by Empire State Development.
A Cornell researcher has created a tool to track the algorithms on Reddit, to inform people how the site is deciding which coronavirus-related posts to recommend to its hundreds of millions of users.
Cornell Atkinson is calling for proposals for faculty research related to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The center’s Rapid Response Fund will award seed grants of up to $10,000 for projects.
At the end of March, the Cornell Orchards started donating apples to the Ithaca and Dryden school districts, and will continue to do so over the next month. In all, it will donate approximately 26,000 apples.
