Germinating from a campus incubator, Uma Bioseed – a startup business developed by Cornell MBA students – has won the 2015 New York Business Plan Competition, winning a $100,000 grand prize.
To determine effective tobacco warning labels, five Cornell faculty members will receive a five-year, $3 million federal grant to examine how anti-smoking messages can affect youth, and low-income and low-education groups.
A Cornell study describes how shifts in diets in Europeans after the introduction of farming 10,000 years ago led to genetic adaptations that favored the dietary trends of the time.
As part of the $5 million Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement program, Cornell University plans to bring an emerging livestock market, known as "stocker" beef cattle, to the Southern Tier.
Mike Hoffmann went to Vietnam for the first time in 47 years: On his first tour of duty, he was a 19-year-old U.S. Marine, and for the March 2016 trip, Hoffmann returned as an environmental scientist.
Cornell's SRI (System of Rice Intensification) International Network and Resources Center helped train 17 Haitians recently in how to train farmers to improve rice productivity in the northern Coronel-Dubre region of Haiti.
Professor Alice Pell, who is director of Cornell's International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD), will assume her new position July 1. (June 10, 2008)
For 35 years, the Northeast Regional Climate Center, housed in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been helping farmers and policymakers adapt to the weather.