Smart Clothing, Smart Girls: Engineering via Apparel Design, a weeklong course, taught 24 middle school girls on campus many principles of science to attract them to STEM fields.
Ponder sustainable fuels and think Rumpelstiltskin: Growers in New York state may one day turn craggy, rugged and lumpy marginal land – by growing grasses and shrubs – into a virtual, perennial fountain of liquid energy gold.
Cornell researcher offers evidence of marine infectious diseases in coral, abalone and oysters, for example, and cases of forecasting and mitigation for those diseases.
Cornell has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to become one of three new University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced.
At least half of Canada’s 1.4 billion acre boreal forest, the largest remaining intact wilderness on earth, must be protected to maintain the area’s current wildlife and ecological systems, according to a recent report.
The two varieties have been a decade in the making, and how they’ve gone to market is a first for the Cornell apple-breeding program and the New York apple industry.
Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Scientists, librarians and practitioners of agriculture information and management from 28 countries met at Mann Library July 23 to discuss creative use of information networks to bridge gaps between developed and developing countries.