More than 50 Cornell undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff attended the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing – an opportunity for those who may feel isolated to connect with colleagues and grow.
Cornell Tech has partnered with New York City on designing the NYCx Moonshot Launchpad, a downloadable guide for defining ambitious solutions to urban problems.
A new test developed at the College of Veterinary Medicine quantifies “capacitation,” the changes that take place within a sperm cell that enable it to fertilize.
Esteban Gazel, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, comments on news that the Katla volcano in Iceland is emitting large volumes of carbon dioxide.
Due to the ideal growing conditions in New York state, the pumpkin crop is early this year and consumers should act fast when picking says Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at Cornell University and a New York state vegetable industry expert. Reiners shares advice on how to pick the perfect pumpkin that should last through the Halloween season if left uncarved.
Philip McMichael, professor of development sociology at Cornell University views a proposed United Nations declaration as a much needed advocacy tool for rural workers’ rights to food and land in an era of land grabbing in rural communities.
By looking at Earth’s full natural history and evolution, astronomers may have found a template for vegetation fingerprints – borrowing from epochs of changing flora – to determine the age of habitable exoplanets.
