The Big Woods of Arkansas provides rare suitable habitat for the ivory-billed woodpecker, including old-growth forest that was decimated from the southern United States after the Civil War. (December 22, 2005)
The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future will help hire three to five faculty members with expertise in climate change-related research. (Dec. 11, 2008)
Cornell Researchers have received three grants to reduce apple tree losses and enhance production efficiency among growers. Researchers hope to make future crops even more valuable by reducing tree and fruit losses and enhancing production efficiency.
To pump up enthusiasm for greener, cleaner fuel on campus, Cornell's Farm Services' 20-plus vehicle fleet and farm equipment have been running on B20 biodiesel exclusively for more than a month.
Collaborations between researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Ithaca campus yield results that might otherwise be impossible, and make Cornell more attractive to graduate students.
Cornell President David Skorton, chemist Geoffrey Coates, physicist Sol Gruner and mathematician Laurent Saloff-Coste are among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (April 21, 2011)
More than 30 of Cornell’s most accomplished graduating seniors were honored May 23, along with their most inspiring high school teachers and Cornell faculty members, at the Merrill Presidential Scholars Convocation luncheon.
Economic geologist Lawrence Cathles writes in a recent review that while mineral resources on land may be dwindling, deposits on the ocean floor could power humanity for centuries. (Oct. 6, 2010)
The Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project Reveal event April 14 showed how 200 random Cornell undergraduates fit into the picture of humanity's migration history. (April 19, 2011)