Provided Etinosa Obanor, representing global youth constituencies, addresses the high-level segment at COP23 on Nov. 16. On the world stage, Etinosa Obanor ’18 minced no words. Representing global youth constituencies at the high-level segment at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, Nov. 6-17, the student delivered a…
Bill McShea/Provided A site in Front Royal, Virginia, shows the difference in plant growth between a plot, at left, where deer graze and which is full of invasive Japanese stiltgrass, compared to a plot where deer are excluded by a fence. When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat…
Jason Koski/University Photography Incoming students on a Fall Creek Gorge hike. The annual National Run/Walk to School/Work event, open to the entire Cornell community, will be held Sept. 15, with the opportunity for participants to win prizes. Prizes include: Pair of running or walking shoes from Finger Lakes Running &…
Thúy Tranviet/Provided Students harvest vegetables on a farm in Bến Tre, the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Launching this fall, the Department of Anthropology’s new Global Gateways course sequence will give students the opportunity to prepare for, and make the most of, Cornell’s off-campus opportunities, from engaged learning programs to study abroad.…
Recent immigration trends, extreme weather events, shifting food systems, growing inequality and severe fiscal stress are development issues that hit New York’s hamlets, towns and cities in varying ways. Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “Building Sustainable Communities: Global Forces, Local Focus,” Sept. 28-29 on campus to help…
Provided Team A design. Concept by Michael Brill, art by Safdar Abidi. Debates about nuclear energy rarely address an issue critical for future generations: how to warn them away from buried nuclear waste. The problem: In 10,000 years, society and language would have gone through profound changes. What words or symbols…
An ambitious project that deploys big data and uses machine learning to understand the ecological impacts of hydropower dams in the Amazon Basin started in a mundane enough setting: on the sidelines at youth baseball games. Conversations initially sparked when they were parents at local games ultimately led Alex Flecker,…
Associate professor of architecture Jenny Sabin’s latest work is a temporary outdoor installation that functions as a work of art and provides shade, seating and cooling for visitors to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. “Lumen,” Sabin’s interactive knitted-fiber installation in the museum’s…
In the year 2100, 2 billion people – about one-fifth of the world’s population – could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland, according to Cornell research the journal Land…
On the heels of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a new Cornell study finds that climate-science labels do matter. The U.S. public doubts the existence of “global warming” more than it doubts “climate change” – and Republicans are driving the…