Fourteen new projects funded with 2016 Engaged Curriculum Grants are underway. With an additional eight teams receiving renewal funding, the grants involve 93 faculty and staff team members, and 29 departments.
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.
Professor Norman Uphoff discussed the System of Rice Intensification April 5 at the closing session of Cambodia's fourth annual national farmers conference in Phnom Penh.
Gender matters to the 16 trainers and 11 teams of 33 researchers from four continents who will participate in a course on “Gender Responsive Root, Tuber and Banana Breeding,” Sept. 12-21 in Uganda.
Stretching beyond the "apple a day" adage, Cornell students explored an Ithaca nature setting and Belizean villages to see how common plant life helps alleviate ailments.
Interim Provost Harry Katz has named anthropology professor Hirokazu Miyazaki director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, effective July 1.
In March, students participating in the Cornell in Washington program teamed up with international students in Muscat, Oman, to find solutions to global health security.
Soumya Gupta, Ph.D ‘15, an expert studying the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and women’s status in India, is the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research.
Because forest elephants are one of the world's slowest reproducing mammals, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002, a study finds.
Twenty-six Cornell graduate students have won more than $42,000 in fall 2018 Research Travel Grants, which provide students up to $2,000 to conduct thesis or dissertation research.