Yi Wen, a fifth-year doctoral student in the field of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, won the 2018 Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
Curt Gooch, a senior extension associate at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, researches agricultural air emissions and dairy sustainability. He says dairy farmers are using management strategies and new technology to lower their greenhouse gas footprint.
New York Farm Day Sept. 14 served up yogurt, chocolate, duck, whiskey, clams to wine ice cream on Capitol Hill as New York’s agricultural community showed their wares to the legislative community.
A study conducted by the Lab of Ornithology’s Center for Conservation Bioacoustics found that when ambient underwater noise gets too loud, the bearded seals are no longer able to compensate in order to be heard.
A 10-year deer management study by Bernd Blossey, associate professor of natural resources, used red oak seedlings as an indicator of deer populations and their impact on ecology.
Part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension(CCE) Tompkins County Get Your Greenbacks program, the PowerHouse helps CCE educators tackle environmental issues and social inequities by making energy savings concepts tangible and easy to understand.
Intergroup Dialogue Project has become one of the main programs on campus to offer peer-facilitated courses and workshops on communication and collaboration across social, cultural and power differences.
By studying the mechanics needed for tiny one-millimeter copepods to jump out of water, scientists could build robots that use similar jumping techniques for practical purposes.
The first of its kind in the country, a new course in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences teaches the full cycle of production, from growing apples to fermenting cider.