The Departments of Food Science and of Plant Pathology each host about one dozen undergraduates from around the country as summer scholars to garner career interest in their fields. (June 20, 2011)
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)
Howard Evans, professor emeritus of biomedical sciences, gives biweekly talks on campus about natural history, from antlers and fossils to rocks and minerals. He also speaks at area public schools. (Nov. 23, 2010)
Cornell deepened its century-long commitment to western New York's wine, grape and juice industries when it opened its new $5.4 million Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, Aug. 25.
President Skorton will join college students, fellow university officials and global leaders seeking to effect change in the world, during the inaugural meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University. (March 12, 2008)
An assistant professor in anthropology will study plant biology and international intellectual property law to keep African healers from commercialization without remuneration with a Mellon fellowship. (June 8, 2011)
High school seniors from the metropolitan area and their parents got a look at Cornell admissions and campus life for minority students in New York City, Nov. 12. (Nov. 15, 2010)
A week of events starting Sept. 26 will mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds statement on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness at Cornell.
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)
Graduate students at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station raise scholarship money for local students interested in agriculture through sales of apple cider. (Nov. 7, 2012)