Ceres2030, headquartered at Cornell, aims to end world hunger by 2030. Harnessing machine learning and librarian savvy, the project identified the most effective ways to boost crops, empower farmers and protect the environment.
From using drones to track nutrient management in upstate corn fields to working with Head Start programs in Harlem, Cornell Cooperative Extension interns helped New York communities this summer.
This week on campus, learn about veterinary medicine at an open house; Cornell’s Employee Recognition Day, and seeing the future – on film in 1925 and at World’s Fair sites in “Lost Utopias.”
Events on campus this week include a concert highlighting concern for climate change, a symposium on international studies issues, and opening events for an exhibition of 19th-century photography. (Nov. 10, 2011)
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and founder of Ensemble X mentored emerging composers for decades at Cornell.
The 2013 Locally Grown Dance Festival, May 1-4 at the Schwartz Center, will feature collaborations on the theme of risk by student and faculty artists from Cornell and Ithaca College.
A Cornell ornithologist and a National Geographic photographer will discuss their work studying, videotaping and photographing birds of paradise. (Oct. 9, 2012)
Spanning the globe to bring you flavors from every continent -- the thrill of chocolate meeting espresso and the agony of seeing an empty ice cream cup: This is the Cornell University inaugural ice cream, Ezra and Andrew's World View. To follow the global theme of President Jeffrey S. Lehman's inauguration, David P. Brown, a senior extension associate in the Department of Food Science, was faced with a daunting task: Create an ice cream that features a flavor or component from every continent. (October 13, 2003)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has chosen Cornell President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings to head a commission to submit recommendations for improving the state of higher education in New York. (June 4, 2007)