"Clean" sweet corn is not easy to grow, but organic and no- or low-spray growers are successfully dealing with potential pest infestations using tiny wasps so consumers won't find little worms when they husk their corn.
The ILR School's Healthcare Transformation Project hosted a two-day conference Dec. 11-12 that offered people in the field workshops on improving health care quality. (Dec. 19, 2012)
Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.
Ted Thoren, who led his teams baseball and football teams to more wins than any Cornell coach in a decades-long, storied career, died in Ithaca at age 89. (May 11, 2011)
When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, some 25,000 German Jews fled to France. Now a new book by a Cornell history professor offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s.
The board of directors of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), which works to improve workplace conditions in factories around the world, recently took action to increase university participation on the board, increase participation by licensees and expand the FLA monitoring program to include additional products.
Slope Day, the annual event celebrating the last day of classes, spilled over Libe Slope May 6. The weather cooperated nicely, with sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-60s. (May 6, 2011)
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine now is one of only two vet schools in the country to offer ablation for dogs - a cardiology procedure that can cure racing hearts. (Dec. 2, 2011)