The new 'Rust-Tracker' can monitor 42 million hectares of wheat in 27 developing countries to identify fields in the path of a wind-borne disease that can destroy healthy wheat. (Sept. 4, 2012)
Relay teams hope to squash their competition at the first Big Red Pumpkin Regatta on Beebe Lake Saturday, Oct. 4. It is hosted by a graduate student group Cornell Flotilla.
Two Cornell scientists are researching sustainable ways to combat 'super weeds' and educate farmers on best practices to ride their fields of them. (Oct. 22, 2012)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Cornell is helping six New York state schools use high tunnels to grow their school gardens and studying how they benefit the schools' educational programs. (Oct. 26, 2011)
An early morning fire on the 400 block of Stewart Avenue in Ithaca displaced 44 Cornell students and two staff members. No injuries were reported in connection with the incident. The fire is under investigation.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $25,000 to Turbulence.org to develop an archive of its NET ART Commissions Archive with Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. (May 11, 2010)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.
Events on campus include a panel on the Kennedy assassination 50 years later, plays and concerts, a community Thanksgiving dinner and a screening and discussion on electric cars and the auto industry.