In research that could have implications in the business world, experts found that firefighter platoons who eat meals together have better group job performance compared to firefighters who dine solo.
Rawlings, president of the AAU since 2011, served as Cornell’s 10th president from 1995 to 2003. An international search for the university's 14th president will begin in the coming months.
Ravi Singh, a Cornell adjunct professor, said how wheat varieties are being developed rapidly to combat a global threat at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Cornell has received $4.5 million to make grape breeding more efficient and to develop new disease-resistant, cold hardy generations of grapes. (Oct. 14, 2011)
A gift and a grant totaling $3.45 million will help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology develop new computer technologies to better understand the movements and behaviors of birds and other species. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Collaborators on the Cornell Gleaning Project are discovering ways to help farmers efficiently harness the leftover crops that they don't sell to donate to food banks.
The university unveiled its official tartan plaid print at the Cornell Design League Fashion Show on April 4, making Cornell the only Ivy League school to have its own tartan registered in Scotland. (April 7, 2009)
Plant pathologist Marc Fuchs is helping New York state officials fight the plum pox virus by testing all the samples collected in the state. He expects to test more than 100,000 samples this year. (July 21, 2008)
At the Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit in New York City Nov. 6, CEOs presented, students pitched business ideas, and President Garrett and spoke of Cornell's entrepreneurial roots.