Cornell research faculty, agricultural programs and cooperative extension offices have received more than $240,000 in grants from the Grow New York Food and Agriculture Industry Development (FAID) Program.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced that two distinguished vice provosts who inaugurated their positions will be stepping down and returning to the faculty, making way for two accomplished faculty members to step into those vice provost positions, effective July 1.
Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena leads Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab, which develops software for complex, high-level robotics that could one day aid humans with daily tasks. (Sept. 21, 2010)
A weak U.S. dollar, war spending and falling housing prices are likely to contribute to weakening the 2008 economy, said a Cornell economist who shared his predictions at a Dec. 18 agribusiness conference at Cornell. (Dec. 21, 2007)
A two-year, $200,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) will help a Cornell mechanical engineer design smaller, faster and cheaper devices for processing and producing proteins.
A group of Cornell researchers has shown the ability to functionalize cotton fabric with a porous beta-cyclodextrin polymer, which can sequester organic micropollutants in both water and air.
Question: How do you know you are in Robin Davisson's lab?
Answer: The postdoc is still wearing an Iowa Hawkeyes T-shirt under her white lab coat.
A new faculty hire in the College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of…
George Lamont's best new idea in apple growing is one he can't sell other growers on. But it has cut his herbicide bill "drastically," he says. He hit on the idea about 10 years ago, after he pushed a probe into soil to test for…