From drones that monitor crop health to plants that send text messages, middle and high school students at Cornell’s Expanding Your Horizons conference experienced firsthand how plant science and technology are shaping the future of agriculture on April 5 in Barton Hall.
Cornell Human Ecology professor Sander Kersten examines sustainable health management strategies in the Nutrition for Metabolic Health eCornell certificate program.
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences has awarded spring Seed Grants and the inaugural Grant Preparation Funds to support impactful social science research. Faculty can now apply for up to $115,000 in funding, with the next deadline approaching on June 1.
Students shared their innovative projects at the Cornell Fashion & Design Expo, the annual juried exhibition hosted by the Department of Human Centered Design (HCD).
Researchers in the College of Human Ecology have developed a design and fabrication approach that treats plants as companions to humans, with seeds woven into hydrogel material for apparel and other applications.
Cornell Tech leadership, alongside elected officials, faculty, students, staff, and the Roosevelt Island community, hosted an official ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the campus’s new MakerLAB on May 2.
Jon Parmenter is a historian of colonial North America at Cornell University, specializing in the history of indigenous peoples in the Northeast. He weighs in on the fight over mascots in New York.
The American Society for Nutrition Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation recognized Julia Finkelstein, associate professor in Nutritional Sciences, for her work on in vitamin B12 and one-carbon metabolism.
Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, according to a new study co-authored by Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08, and Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08, associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and director of ILR’s Initiative on Home Care Work.
