Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County has received some $317,000 of stimulus funding to provide training to 120 veterans, many with disabilities, for green jobs. (Sept. 22, 2009)
A new grant from the National Science Foundation will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research on the development of materials to advance sustainable living. (Sept. 15, 2009)
Cornell received a Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides tools for people fighting the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security. (Nov. 29, 2010)
As the warm temperatures of spring start a little earlier each year due to climate change, bees and plants are keeping pace, according to a new study. (Dec. 12, 2011)
Community engagement is the key for an energetic team of Cornell undergraduates working to build an inclusive-education school in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Students will have the opportunity to learn from two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large: cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and conservationist Jeffrey McNeely, who were appointed to six-year terms. (Sept. 8, 2009)
Some 25 student organizations and departments committed to sustainability participated in Earth Day 2010 festivities on Ho Plaza April 22. (April 23, 2010)
Messages on making schools safer and healthier are going coast to coast starting Nov. 5, when Cornell students began a cross-country bus tour conducting outreach projects along the way. (Nov. 5, 2012)
The Gates Foundation has given Cornell a $3 million grant to use genomics to develop more crop varieties for smallholder farmers in developing countries. (June 1, 2011)