Cornell has received $4.5 million to make grape breeding more efficient and to develop new disease-resistant, cold hardy generations of grapes. (Oct. 14, 2011)
Cornell's Small Farms Program has received a new three-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to broaden its support for new farmers in the Northeast. (Nov. 23, 2009)
Researchers argue a “science of climate diversity” will help guide researchers and public leaders and overcome a lack of ethnic and racial diversity in the climate change movement.
ILR School professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn finds an eight percent wage gap that cannot be accounted for, even after controlling for variables that influence workers' pay.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers find that brain stents successfully treat symptoms of Idiopathic intracranial hypertension such as head pressure and vision loss.
President David Skorton applauded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, in his State of the State Address, emphasized the need to take advantage of higher education institutions in improving the state economy. (Jan. 6, 2011)
By turning down temperatures and unplugging electric devices over the holidays, the Cornell campus combined to save 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide from getting pumped into the atmosphere.