More than 50 high school students from across the state visited Cornell March 31-April 1 for the New York Youth Institute, the state-level World Food Prize youth program engaging students with issues related to agriculture and food security.
Andrew Novakovic, the EV Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics in Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, explains how the recent developments in U.S. dairy exports to Canada are threatening dairy farms in New York and Wisconsin.
The heads of the world’s two largest economies are scheduled to meet this weekend to face-off on a range of issues – from trade to North Korea’s provocations.
The late professor of city and regional planning Susan Christopherson will be remembered on campus with events April 28-30 in Milstein Hall, and by economic geography colleagues a national meeting.
The second Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures roundtable explored hospitality, health management and design for senior housing and care March 30–31 at the Statler Hotel.
A survey of more than 200 New York farmers late last summer found that more than 70 percent of unirrigated, rain-fed field crops and pasture acreage had losses between 30 and 90 percent, said a new Cornell report.
Insects that cannibalize often do so to boost their nutrition, but a new study of Colorado potato beetles suggests another reason for the behavior: to lay low from predators.
Cornell faculty members will join thousands of their counterparts April 22 as they sound a call for supporting scientific research and evidence-based policies during an historic March for Science in Washington, D.C. The following Cornell experts are attending the march and are available for comment:
Max Zhang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the winner of the second annual Engaged Scholar Prize, which recognizes community-based teaching, learning and research.
Applications are due April 19 for College of Arts and Sciences summer experience grants, which are receiving alumni support to help students take unpaid summer internships.
