Researchers have developed the Cornell Soil Health Test to evaluate soil response to management on different types of land. It's intended to assess changes due to gas drilling work. (March 31, 2010)
To ease our blue planet's environmental pressures, the Cornell Big Red turned green at the university's first Zero Landfill basketball game on Feb. 23. The fans helped divert 96 percent of the trash.
Events this week include "The Great Dictator" in a Cornell Cinema "Demagogues" series; "Art and the Military" at the Johnson Museum; a book talk by economist Eswar Prasad; and the Vida Guitar Quartet.
LaWanda Cook, extension associate and training specialist for the Northeast ADA Center within Cornell's Employment and Disability Institute, discussed affordable ways to make local small businesses' goods and services accessible to the public.
Conservationists, policymakers and industry leaders were in Ithaca Dec. 8 to hear from Cornell experts on how climate change affects state ecosystems and how best to respond to a warming planet. (Dec. 18, 2008)
The Global Innovation Index 2014, a report co-authored by Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta, identifies Europe and sub-Saharan Africa as current centers of innovation.
Six alumni and faculty offered an overview of Cornell's contributions to poverty and development economics in a Charter Day Weekend panel April 25 on campus.
Addressing the topic of reducing sexual assaults on campuses nationwide and pending related legislation, Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner testified Dec. 9 before the U.S. Senate, providing expert opinion and specific ideas on bolstering federal laws.