Cornell researchers are testing vegetable crop leaves to see if they're nutrient deficient, and if they are, they are nourishing the crops via 'fertigation' – delivering nutrients via irrigation.
Six boys from Ithaca's DeWitt Middle School toured the Cornell campus to get a sense of the possibilities that a college education can offer them. (Nov. 14, 2012)
They are Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Gary Evans (design and environmental analysis and human development) and Natalie Mahowald (atmospheric sciences).
Susan K. Brown, professor of horticultural sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., has been named the first Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticultural Sciences.
An activist seeking to remediate damage from Agent Orange said that the toxic herbicide's effects linger 35 years after being sprayed on Vietnam. (Nov. 21, 2011)
The Council of Graduate Schools has chosen Cornell as a demonstration school for a project to develop programs to train future faculty and establish best practices in assessing student learning.
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.