David M. Lodge, the Galla Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the first Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, effective in May 2016.
Potato plants boost the chemical defenses in their leaves when Guatemalan tuber moth larvae feed on their tubers, report researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute.
Three hospitality business plans to the top three spots in the School of Hotel Administration’s (SHA) Hospitality Business Plan Competition. Winners were announced March 21.
Stephen Cole, who helped establish one of the nation’s first master’s programs in acting at Cornell in the 1960s and whose students included Jimmy Smits and Christopher Reeve, has died.
Careful management and generally favorable market conditions significantly increased the value of Cornell’s long-term investments, which include the university’s portfolio of endowments, in fiscal year 2014.