Restaurateur Dan Barber, who writes on food and agricultural policy and promotes sustainable practices to achieve the best taste in farm and garden-grown foods, will speak in Call Auditorium. (March 17, 2011)
Cornell has joined nearly 50 universities in a commitment to address global hunger. University leaders will sign the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security Dec. 9 at the United Nations.
Now in the most severe drought seen in Tompkins County since climate data records have been kept, Cornell has reached second-stage drought level and issued water use restrictions effective July 28.
Three Cornell researchers will discuss mitigating climate change, biochar and the challenges of wheat rust, respectively, at the 2012 Association for Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Researchers argue a “science of climate diversity” will help guide researchers and public leaders and overcome a lack of ethnic and racial diversity in the climate change movement.
Northeastern bees have suffered population declines over the last 140 years, largely due to human encroachment, but none has faced a more devastating collapse than the humble bumble bee.
A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry.
Ph.D. student Leliah Krounb is studying how to turn human waste into soil nutrients in Kenya by using pyrolysis – thermal combustion in the absence of oxygen.