In an exclusive symposium designed for Cornell students, officials from the United Nations detailed a new 15-year initiative on battling climate change worldwide.
James Russell Hicks, an expert in important vegetable storage and post-harvest physiology, died Nov. 26. He was 78. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1976 and became associate professor in 1981.
Projects include research on child malnutrition treatment programs in Niger and nutrient management among small livestock-crop systems in Vietnam. (Nov. 13, 2012)
A new study published in BMC Biology describes greenhouse trials of a genetically engineered diamondback moth that suppresses populations of pest diamondback moths and reduces their resistance to Bt.
The Council of Graduate Schools has approved a Professional Science Master's designation for two programs at Cornell that combine technical and business instruction, in Food Science and Applied Statistics.
The Cornell Institute for Food Systems Industry Partnership Program offers a new public-private partnership that brings together Cornell’s food science faculty and staff with industry scientists, engineers and leaders.
A small mite is causing big trouble for New York state's honeybee population and putting in peril the fruit and vegetable crops that depend on these pollinators.