The rebuilt Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse reopened Feb. 9 with modern equipment designed for increased energy savings and improved plant growth. It houses more than 500 species.
A $20 million business competition and business support program is accepting applications from innovative, clean-energy businesses seeking to locate in New York’s 11-county Southern Tier. Application deadline is March 15.
Six panelists, including Cornell faculty, provided a review Feb. 3 of proceedings from the COP21 climate change summit in Paris, before a spirited audience at the Tompkins County Public Library.
Cornell University and its Center for Transformative Action will received a 2016 Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award recognizing top higher education approaches to social entrepreneurship.
A Cornell-led international team has launched a set of open-access genomic resources that will accelerate the ability of rice geneticists and breeders to link genes to important traits in rice.
Charles Aquadro, Laura Harrington and Sean Nicholson are recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
New York's land-grant university brought its message of education, discovery and engagement to the state capital Jan. 26 for Cornell Day in Albany, and took the opportunity to show off its diverse offerings to lawmakers and visitors alike.
Three city and regional planning graduate students traveled to Indonesia in December, to participate in the third annual Urban Social Forum and conduct research for community projects in Java.
Cornell Cares Day – a worldwide student-alumni service event held each January that connects Cornellians to serve their local communities through direct, hands-on service projects – united alumni and students in more than 30 cities in a day of service.
