Transferring genetic markers in plant breeding is a challenge, but a team of grapevine breeders and scientists at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York, has come up with a powerful new method.
The inaugural event in the Kenneth A.R. Kennedy Lecture in Human Evolution series will be April 9 and will feature Cynthia Beall, professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.
President Martha E. Pollack and Kavita Bala, dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, talked about the future of the college at Cornell Silicon Valley 21, held virtually March 30.
When Frank DeCosta, Ph.D. ’85, thinks back to when he was a student, he reflects on how ignorant he was about intellectual property law. Today, he volunteers at Cornell’s Praxis Center for Venture Development to make sure faculty and student entrepreneurs are more knowledgeable than he had been.
The Kessler Fellows program welcomes fifteen new student entrepreneurs from across Cornell's colleges for entrepreneurship training and startup internship experience.
Weill Cornell Medicine and Weill Bugando School of Medicine collaborate to strengthen medical education, health care and innovative global health research at both institutions.
"I saw what I am capable of when I am challenged" - that's what University of Buffalo freshman Donovan Blount says about a course developed at Cornell by two professors in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. The leader of a national education equity organization says professors Maria Fitzpatrick and Matthew Hall are "academic heroes."
The Affordable Health Care act, passed in 2009, was designed to close racial disparities in access to health care. In the first decade of the act's implementation, however, many such provisions are being blocked by racial politics.