Cities in the “global south” – densely populated urban areas that are part of low-income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America – should phase out pit latrines, septic tanks and other on-site methods of human waste management, according to a Cornell researcher.
Staff and student participants in the Community Learning and Service Partnership program attended a Dec. 12 luncheon in Warren Hall for a “midyear celebration of learning.”
A Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Managementstudy shows new regional production of broccoli in the Eastern United States is economically viable, with no negative impact on consumers prices.
Cornell’s Samantha VanWees ’16 and Genevieve Sullivan ’16 captured first and second place at the annual Institute of Food Technologists’ undergraduate research competition July 18 in Chicago.
Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling companies, a Cornell study has found.
To hunt a disease that threatens eelgrass – critical seaside meadows – the NSF has awarded researchers from Cornell and its partner institutions with a three-year $1.3 million grant.
Dean Kathryn Boor has been appointed as a director of the new Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, an independent agency to oversee national research efforts into food, agriculture and some other sciences.