Three speakers addressed sustainability issues in Turkey during a forum titled 'Development Issues in Southeastern Anatolia, Including GAP (the Southeastern Anatolia Project).'
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $10 million to a four-institution consortium that includes Cornell University to build agricultural research and extension services in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to alleviate the nation's chronic hunger, poverty and disease. Over the next five years, the consortium plans to build institutional research and extension capacity in agriculture, natural-resource management, micro-finance and micro-enterprise development in the country's Amhara region. Officially, the program is called Assisting the Shift in Paradigms in Agricultural Research and Extension in Ethiopia (ASPIRE). (August 19, 2002)
From one ecologist's perspective, the American system of farming grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the yield, accelerates soil erosion, affects world food supply and will be changing in the future.
A scientific symposium focusing on genetics and immunology is planned Oct. 9, as part of the 50th anniversary observances at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell.
Assessing how a pride of lions eat a zebra and how horn lengths of antelopes may relate to why only some males have harems were just two of the many activities 16 students experienced working as field biologists in Kenya.
The eighth Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium will be held on the Cornell University campus, Nov. 7-9. The charter meeting of the Dairy Sheep Association of North (DSANA) will be held concurrently. As demand for sheep milk and cheeses increases, dairy sheep breeds are becoming better established in North America and are improving rural economies. "The Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium is the unique annual event for transmitting information among dairy-sheep farmers and sheep-cheese makers," says Michael Thonney, Cornell professor of animal science. "Because there are many other avenues to learn about general sheep management, we're keeping the focus on information about sheep dairying." (August 5, 2002)
As gay couples rush to the altar and the White House backs a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages, a poll by Cornell University researchers shows that voters who favor gay marriage tend to be young, educated and earn a comfortable living. And they tend to watch CNN. Voters who oppose gay marriage are usually older, less educated, vote Republican and are not as wealthy. And they tend to watch Fox News. (March 11, 2004)
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, announced that clinical trials will begin today (July 7) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., to test the safety and immunogenicity of the world's first potential oral vaccine against the hepatitis B virus.