Every Tuesday afternoon, organic produce grown on Cornell's Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm is sold on the Ag Quad. The farm also hosts work parties where volunteers can help farm and buy vegetables. (July 11, 2008)
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. (Dec. 8, 2009)
With projections of 9.5 billion people by 2050, humankind faces the challenge of feeding modern diets to additional mouths while using the same amounts of water, fertilizer and arable land as today.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Binghamton, N.Y., Mayor Matt Ryan helped kick off a summer youth employment initiative, an urban farm, as part of the Community Improvement Through Youth Project. (July 16, 2010)
Ravi Singh, a Cornell adjunct professor, said how wheat varieties are being developed rapidly to combat a global threat at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
The Cornell Piano Society includes Cornellians and local residents who either take or give lessons - or both - for a nominal fee. Members also have access to master classes and grand pianos. (Feb. 4, 2011)
Collaborators on the Cornell Gleaning Project are discovering ways to help farmers efficiently harness the leftover crops that they don't sell to donate to food banks.
With ecological viability threatened, world resources draining, the population burgeoning and despair running rampant, the end is nigh. Larry Cathles, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, begs to differ.