Researchers at Cornell, Georgia Tech and the U.S. Forest Service have found that when an animal preserve corridor includes areas that are hospitable to two species, the cost is far less than it would be to create separate corridors for each one.
A project of Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement, Rev: Ithaca Startup Works has received the Economic Development Project of the Year award from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance.
At an Oct. 19 meeting of the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council, which he co-chairs, President David Skorton expressed optimism for the economic future of New York state. (Oct. 20, 2011)
The Cornell eRulemaking Initiative has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to solicit public input for updating the Federal Health IT strategic plan.
Ithaca software company GORGES, Inc. has acquired Push Interactive, a member of Rev, Ithaca's downtown business incubator. Rev is a partnership among Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College.
The human biology, health and society major in Cornell's College of Human Ecology has been awarded an oncology research fellowship at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center. (May 30, 2012)
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs student Shamir Shehab will receive an award from Queen Elizabeth II in June for his work in his native Bangladesh to educate young people on climate change.
Oneka LaBennett's students in oral history and urban ethnography over spring break recorded the life stories of Caribbean immigrants living and working in a rapidly gentrifying part of Brooklyn.
The New York Grazinglands Coalition Soil Health Trailer is a rolling lab equipped to demonstrate the value of healthy soil while illustrating the dangers that can lurk both above and beneath.