Crop breeders in developing countries can access free tools to accelerate breeding crop varieties due to a collaboration among GOBII project at Cornell, the Boyce Thompson Institute and others.
Eleven high school students spent three weeks on campus creating new businesses with entrepreneurial Cornell student mentors this summer as part of the “Life Changing Summer” program.
The university will open a Cornell Store on the Ithaca Commons later this spring. The announcement was part of a Cornell-sponsored regional conference on town-gown economic development.
Examining survey results of local governments, half of U.S. cities and towns had specific environmental goals but only one-third had concrete sustainability plans, in a new report, published March 2016.
The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR has developed a mobile phone application to prevent wage theft and violations of worker rights in cooperation with laborers, organizers, developers and lawyers.
In his new edited volume, 'The Modern Land-Grant University,' Professor Robert Sternberg says the land-grant university is a compelling model for higher ed, with ideas and ideals relevant to even the most elite academies.