ILR junior Jonathan Lam was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Trailblazer in Organizing and Activism Award given by Amnesty International USA. Lam and others were honored at the People Power Awards ceremony during the organization’s Annual General Meeting, held in February at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit.
Warmer autumns and more “false” springs are disrupting the signals grapevines rely on to gain cold hardiness for the winter and blossom effectively in the spring, according to new research from Cornell AgriTech.
Across the world, harvest celebrations are one of the most common human traditions. Though they vary in mythology and performance, they are united in their celebration of plentiful harvests, and the health and peace that abundant food helps provide to communities.
Northern New York Veterans in Agriculture (AgVets), a program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension Jefferson County, since 2020 has helped more than 2,200 area service members explore the field of agriculture through classes, tours and mentorships with local farmers.
Hadas Kress-Gazit, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named the next associate dean for diversity and academic affairs for Cornell Engineering.
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, cohosts Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel unpack the term “allyship” with Sam Benson, Assistant Director for Graduate Affairs for MS and PhD Students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Perdita Das, Assistant Dean of Hans Bethe House.
Cornell Atkinson, The Nature Conservancy, Clean Air Task Force and Environmental Defense Fund have awarded grants to five research projects that aim to improve sustainability in the dairy industry.
Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years and identified rigid gender stereotypes in the attributes and occupations of feminine and masculine characters.