The study of what earth scientists call the “critical zone” – the area where rock, water soil, organisms and the atmosphere meet – is expanding with a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant.
If you’re dreaming of a white Thanksgiving, dream on. For winter-hardened places like Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit, the chance of measurable snow on the ground for Thanksgiving is practically nil.
Science educator Verne N. Rockcastle, a member of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty since 1956, died April 5 in Ithaca; He was 95. A memorial service will be April 18 at Kendal.
About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.
ZYMtronix, a startup company with roots in Cornell-developed technology and operating in Cornell’s McGovern Center for business development, has signed an agreement with Codexis, a major producer of pharmaceutical enzymes.
Continuing an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, Cornell University is proposing a 10-acre solar farm on university property in the town of Seneca, New York, where the university conducts agricultural research.
Max Zhang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the winner of the second annual Engaged Scholar Prize, which recognizes community-based teaching, learning and research.
After traveling through Vietnam's Mekong Delta in January, examining climate change through the lens of another country, four Cornell students toured the halls of Congress in late March to tell all about it.