To see if rural towns benefit from selling local farm products to urban consumers, the USDA awarded a $500,000 grant on Feb. 25 to a team of Cornell researchers led by economist Todd Schmit.
In an exclusive symposium designed for Cornell students, officials from the United Nations detailed a new 15-year initiative on battling climate change worldwide.
A new study suggests that ketamine doesn't lower levels of pain or reduce the need for pain-killing opioid drugs in the days after an operation, has side effect.
Students have launched Practice Makes Perfect, a nonprofit student organization that pairs high school students with fifth-graders for summer mentoring. (Dec. 7, 2011)
To the editor:
Great to read, and concept of lottery to choose representatives: Terrific.
Mixing students/faculty/staff: Great.
Seeing Cornell students actively involved in the world around them and voting: It's what education is…
Samantha Borisoff, a climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center, examined 50 years of weather data and calculated various cities' chances for a white Christmas and a dry New Year's Eve. (Dec. 19, 2012)
Cornell's Community Improvement Through Youth Project has been recognized for its successful urban 4-H programs by the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents for the second year in a row. (Feb. 12, 2008)
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Joanne DeStefano discusses her newly expanded role, Cornell's financial challenges and being a part of the university's new leadership team.
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have found that if PTEN, a known tumor-suppressor gene, has mutated or is absent, the DNA replication process derails and can lead to cancer development.