The scent of graham crackers, wine-infused mustard and frozen Greek yogurt permeates the noses of students in Food Science 4000, where Cornell seniors draw on their knowledge to aid New York food businesses.
Capitol Hill met East Hill as the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs tapped two Cornell professors for their expertise on the economics of international food aid and the realities of Chinese-American relations.
Cornell is the major research partner in a consortium that is creating culturally acceptable insurance products to reduce the impact of extreme weather on some of the developing world’s most vulnerable populations.
The Cornell Vegetable Program assists farmers in 12 western New York counties by helping them apply Cornell research and expertise to their local vegetable growing operations.
Concerns about the banning of a plant-thinning chemical prompted New York apple producers, CCE educators and Cornell researchers to study a mechanical blossom-thinning alternative to carbaryl.
An international consortium of scientists has published the genome sequence of watermelon, providing information that could dramatically accelerate watermelon breeding. (Nov. 27, 2012)
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is celebrating its 10th anniversary by focusing with renewed urgency on more powerful ways to translate knowledge into action.
Eight sub-Saharan plant breeders from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina and Ghana celebrated their new Ph.D.s from the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, a partnership between Cornell and the University of Ghana.
If the carnivorous U.S. population – as a whole – ate a more-vegetarian diet that included eggs and milk products, the environment would be greatly relieved, says a preliminary Cornell study.