With demand for global food expected to double, people need to tap unused plants to feed the world in the near future, claims Cornell plant geneticist Susan McCouch.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet Award June 19.
Professor Emeritus Tony Ingraffea explained a statewide green energy plan in his keynote address at the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee annual summit Nov. 18, and winners of the Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Award were announced.
Cornell has signed an agreement with the government of Paraguay to further international outreach, fieldwork and exchange of information and resources.
Testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Finance July 24, Cornell's Richard Burkhauser outlined how to make changes to save the SSDI program.
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.