Cornell animal scientists are working with Mexican scholars to create a program that will eventually provide information to livestock farmers to raise the most productive and profitable animals they can.
Cornell Professor Chen Jian won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research for the film 'Declassifed: Nixon in China.'
Last summer two Cornell students and one alumna lived alongside locals in rural and urban communities in Kenya, engaging them to generate ideas for sustainable micro-enterprises that may lift them out of poverty.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell placed ninth in a ranking that looked at how well the world's 600 full-time MBA programs integrate social and environmental knowledge in their courses and programs.
To determine the best management practices to reduce the impact of phosphorus in the Cannonsville watershed, two Cornell professors have received a $1 million grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Harvey Reissig has been named director of the Pesticide Management Education Program and state pesticide coordinator for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, will visit campus Oct. 31 and give an evening address. Masire's talk, at 6:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building conference hall.
The most detailed analysis to date of how humans differ from one another at the DNA level shows strong evidence that natural selection has shaped the recent evolution of our species, according to researchers from Cornell University, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics.