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.
Eight students and a professor spent 10 days in Ghana over winter break, talking to women about their concerns for their communities. The findings will help shape future service trips to Ghana.
The committee for the 2009 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for grant proposals for up to $3,000 from student leaders and organizations by Oct. 31. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Four members of the College of Veterinary Medicine were honored at the Upstate New York Branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Sept. 16 in Syracuse, N.Y. (Sept. 21, 2009)
The student-led Cornell University Sustainable Design has published 'Schoolhouse South Africa: Comprehensive Context,' a book on their design approach to building a school in South Africa this summer. (Feb. 22, 2011)
Students in Cornell's Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service and the Urban Semester Summer Program co-hosted a free health fair July 28 in Brooklyn. (Aug. 9, 2012)
Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Cornell researcher Paul Bowser and Sea Grant fisheries specialist Dave MacNeill have received the first Research to Application Award for work on a fish virus and applying it in non-academic settings. (Oct. 20, 2010)
A recent CaRDI roundtable focused on health challenges in rural communities across New York state and the potential to enhance the impacts of school-based health clinics on community health.
Six Cornell professors – each with distinctive areas of study – provided 10-minute presentations on the university’s international impact at Bailey Hall on Oct. 17.