Five landscape architecture graduate students spent the 2010-11 academic year designing a garden with plants capable of cleaning up hazardous waste sites. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Prabhu Pingali, former World Bank economist and deputy director of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be spearheading a Cornell effort to help reduce poverty and malnutrition in India.
The $25.2 million Next Generation Cassava Breeding project at Cornell has released a database that features all the breeding data on cassava for open access data sharing.
Cornell's Energy Materials Center has just signed a memorandum of understanding with Ithaca's MicroGen Systems LLC to develop 'self-charging' batteries. (July 20, 2010)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly, gardener, artist, lecturer, reminded more than 100 attendees of the Feb. 3 Soup and Hope to slow down and help others to do the same. (Feb. 7, 2011)
Two national contests - one to recycle and compost campuswide and another to conserve energy and water in residence halls - mix fun with raising awareness about conservation on campus.
The contingent hopes to use the meeting as a springboard for creating interdisciplinary partnerships at Cornell to research pressing climate issues in the future.
Cornell scientists and alumni are part of a participatory plant breeding movement that seeks to produce organically gown seeds for crops appropriate to local climate conditions.
Researchers have created a method that uses algorithms, pathogen ecology and remote sensing tools to predict hot spots where foodborne pathogens may be present on farms prior to harvest. (Dec. 4, 2012)
Cornell Silicon Valley gathered a group of about 100 alumni July 22 in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss possible solutions to a future punctuated by traffic congestion and environmental decline. (July 30, 2009)