At the 21st annual Staff Graduate Reception May 23, President Martha E. Pollack recognized two staff members receiving a Ph.D., 23 receiving a master's degree, and one a Bachelor of Science degree.
Funding from the NSF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will partner advanced research expertise with the developing world to improve soil and plant breeding. (Sept. 2, 2010)
The syllabus for a social entrepreneurship course, taught by Anke Wessels of the Center for Transformative Action at Cornell, has won an award from Ashoka, a global group of social entrepreneurs. (Feb. 28, 2011)
Cornell was one of 12 colleges and universities to receive the Climate Leadership Award for Institutional Excellence in Climate Leadership. (Oct. 19, 2010)
Chemical engineers have developed a new method for making large quantities of integral membrane proteins simply and inexpensively, without the use of detergents typically used today.
The Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF), a collaboration between the School of Hotel Administration and the College of Human Ecology, unites hospitality, health and design.
With entrepreneurship faculty and classes now scattered across campus, the nascent College of Business is poised to act as the focal point for entrepreneurship-related academics at Cornell.
A multidisciplinary research team has identified a mutation on the protein shell of canine parvovirus that helps it to transfer and infect wild forest-dwelling animals, including raccoons.