A new course, Hydroponic Food Crop Production and Management, teaches the principles and practices of commercial food crop production in controlled environment agriculture.
The project aims to develop a more sustainable industry that produces broccoli locally, reduces emissions from cross-country trucking and conserves scarce western U.S. irrigation water. (Oct. 25, 2010)
Bad Religion punk rocker Greg Graffin, Ph.D. '03, is co-teaching a course on evolution this semester for non-biology majors; he will do so for at least three years. (Nov. 30, 2011)
A survey of women who recently gave birth found that many women change their behavior and consume less fish during pregnancy, in spite of receiving recommendations for eating fish during pregnancy.
James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, a professor of linguistics emeritus who did pioneering work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca at age 88.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
Thanks to a grant from the Center for Life Science Enterprise, 18 students served as summer interns through Entrepreneurship@Cornell, working at startup companies throughout New York state.