Bailey Drewes and Chelsea Benson, Cornell employees who will complete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for the marathon, love the spirit among sub-elite runners, who juggle jobs in addition to their training.
Ten participants of the Nuffield Scholar Global Focus Program, seeking inspiration for their businesses back home in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Ireland and the U.K., spent a week touring Cornell’s agricultural facilities.
A partnership between International Programs in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is training African students in advanced cassava breeding.
Sociologist Tom Hirschl says poverty may be best understood in a relative sense – that is, looking at how people stack up against each other, as opposed to against a specific income standard.
Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.
They identified a core group of genes that plants use to make symbiotic relationships with soil fungi, which provide soil minerals to the plant and may reduce the need for chemical fertilizers.
The Presidential Life Sciences Fellowships program is intended to help form integrative new disciplines within the life sciences and to expand and support students' interdisciplinary interests. (Dec. 1, 2009)
Twenty students, faculty and staff members in Cornell's contract colleges have been named 2013 winners of State University of New York Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
A new Cornell study suggests the kinds of ready-to-eat foods left out on the countertop and other visible parts of the kitchen could also hint at the weight of the people there, especially for women.
Wendy Wolford, Cornell’s vice provost for international affairs and the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, discusses her background, interdisciplinary approach, the university’s support for students and faculty in international work, the Global Grand Challenge, the new Cornell China Center and more.