Because urban sanitation scores don't tell the whole story in India, Cornell water-resources experts recommend allowing cities to custom-design measures that will save lives and lift their residents to improved health.
Americans buy into a socio-economic system of increasingly vast financial inequity because they believe deeply in upward mobility, despite evidence indicating that a relative few have the opportunity to move up.
Cornell plant breeders and geneticists, who’ve played a significant role in the improvement of the potato, are expanding their efforts as they make more wild potato seeds available to breeders around the world.
Among the statistics compiled by the Princeton Review, which just named Cornell to its list of the best 373 colleges:Best campus food #5Best college library #5Best career services #16Best college newspaper …
Grow-NY, announced May 31 by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be one of the largest food and agriculture business competitions in the nation, supporting innovative startups in food production and agriculture.
Cornell hosted students from five universities for the annual Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference April 21-22 on campus.
For undergraduates looking for the top program in engineering physics, Cornell is the best place to go, according to U.S. News and World Report. In overall rankings for 2008, Cornell tied for 12th best. (Aug. 17, 2007)
Splash! at Cornell on April 18 will offer more than 100 courses for middle and high school students in one day, all taught by Cornell students - everything from hip-hop to history.
The Humanities Scholars Conference, May 10 at the A.D. White House, featured 28 undergraduate research and thesis presentations and laid groundwork for an interdisciplinary humanities scholars program.
BusinessWeek magazine has billed Cornell's undergraduate business program the fourth-best in the nation, according to its most recent rankings survey. (March 3, 2008)