The global food system is in disarray: Prices of fuel and food are skyrocketing; weather is wreaking havoc; and subsidies are misdirected. There is an urgent need for new policy priorities, says Per Pinstrup-Andersen in a Cornell Perspectives piece. (March 3, 2008)
In rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, poor farmers supplement their livelihoods by hunting and cutting wood, but such practices seriously threaten biodiversity in the developing world. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Toxic chemicals from households and industry persist in the environment because they end up in sewage sludge. Though pathogens are removed in treatment plants, there are no requirements for chemicals, which contaminate sludge. (Jan. 29, 2008)
David R. Atkinson '60 and his wife, Patricia Atkinson, have committed $80 million to provide a permanent center on campus that will position Cornell to be a global leader in sustainability. (Oct. 28, 2010)
The Victim Advocacy Program, a new Cornell University service, is now available to all members of the Cornell community. The position will function under the auspices of the University Ombudsmans Office. Danilee Poppensiek will serve as the victim advocate while continuing her assistant ombudsman duties.
For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business. (Dec. 18, 2008)
President David Skorton talks with Cornell Chronicle editors about how he is leading the university through the economic downturn and why he is optimistic about the university's future. (Dec. 12, 2008)
On April 15, a workshop for nonprofit groups organized by Michelle M. Thompson, a visiting lecturer in Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning, took place at Albert R. Mann Library.
Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles, Southside Community Center's bicycle program, urgently needs volunteers on a regular basis to work two to six hours weekly, both from home or on-site at its new home on South Corn Street.
Ten major locations throughout the middle Atlantic region and the Northeastern United States have set snowfall records this week, shattering record snowfall amounts set during the last 'Storm of the Century' in March 1993, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.