Wheat scientists from China, Ethiopia, Germany, India and Uruguay have been honored by the Cornell's Borlaug Global Rust Initiative as Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career awardees.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, $10 billion is urgently needed to prevent millions more people becoming food insecure, according to a new report by Cornell and international partners.
Cornell has joined an amicus brief supporting Harvard and MIT's challenge of a Trump administration directive that would deny visas to international students who take only online classes this fall.
Twenty faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines.
In a keynote address June 25, Ronnie Coffman described how Cornell efforts coordinating a global response to a wheat pathogen averted a global food disaster and continues to safeguard wheat around the world.
Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, is leading investigations into the timelines of ancient events, using tree ring data to refine the widely used radiocarbon dating method.
Research Professor of Global Development KV Raman works to implement global partnerships for food and agriculture systems — bringing together Cornellians and partners in developing countries to build solutions for hunger, poverty and malnutrition.
A team led by a Boyce Thompson Institute researcher has identified genes enabling peaches and their wild relatives to tolerate stressful conditions – findings that could help the domesticated peach adapt to climate change.