For the first time, fiber science students and faculty joined the class that spent two weeks in India recently. The textile students toured textile and apparel production facilities. (Jan. 31, 2011)
Cornell horticulture professor Su-Sheng Gan has identified an enzymatic fountain of youth that slows down the process of leaf death and lays the foundation for the genetics of freshness.
Development workers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational Sustainability are using satellites and mobile phones to help herders in Kenya find food for their animals
A collaborative approach and a 2.5-acre field in Ithaca, with a drip irrigation system and a black-locust deer fence, are at the heart of Wood’s Earth’s four programs.
Nine faculty-led teams conducting research with undergraduate students have received Undergraduate Engaged Research Programs grants, administered by Engaged Cornell.
A student-created landscape has been at the Mann Library entrance has been chosen as one of the first landscapes to participate in an international pilot project program. (June 2, 2010)
The researchers will develop mathematical representations of strategic interactions between building owners and insurance companies in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Undergraduates in the lab of Nelson Hairston, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, perform scientific research in a supportive atmosphere.
Landscape architect Gil Hanse, MLA '89, won the bid to design an environmentally sensitive golf course for the 2016 Olympics with CALS professor Frank Rossi. (March 12, 2012)