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November 8, 2017

Provided Chris Barrett speaks at a forum hosted by the American Enterprise Institute Oct 19 in Washington, DC Congress can change the United States’ international food aid programs to save lives without increasing taxpayer costs, said Cornell expert...

November 7, 2017

President Martha E Pollack delivers the State of the University address Oct 20 “We stand at the cusp of a new era for the university – in which we can and will be the model of a relevant, premier university for the 21st century,” said President...

November 6, 2017

Adam Shelepak ’17 during a visit to campus in late summer I grew up in Endwell, New York, a small town about 40 miles from Cornell University Though it’s a short drive from Ithaca, to me it represented a tremendous shift in worldview My freshman year...

November 3, 2017

Dave Burbank Photography From left, Christine Liu and Lavannya Pulluveetil Barrera of Cornell’s student-led Alternative Breaks program with Latonya Assanah, greenhouse manager for Harlem Grown, during a 2017 trip to New York City, where students worked...

November 2, 2017

Marin Cherry, MS ’15, course coordinator for Food Science 4000, left, with Professor Chang “Cy” Lee, who teaches the class Last spring, food science major Maddie Parish ’17 and other members of her team in the capstone course Food Science 4000...

November 1, 2017

Robert Barker/University Photography Unilever CEO Paul Polma speaks at the Robert S Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education lecture with President Martha E Pollack Oct 12 in Alice Statler Auditorium Can capitalism be sustainable, in more than one sense of...

October 31, 2017

In a statement released Oct 11, Cornell President Martha E Pollack shared the charge of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate and announced its co-chairs Following recent incidents on and near campus, Pollack issued an initial statement calling the...

October 30, 2017

Cornell Cooperative Extension intern Ryan Graff '20, left, stands with Michael Spiak, owner of The Fossil Stone Vineyards, Greenfield Center, New York  Stepping up to the podium at the 2017 Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) internship reception Oct 11,...

October 27, 2017

From left, Randi Lynn Quackenbush of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier; Gen Meredith of the College of Veterinary Medicine; David Pelletier, professor of nutritional sciences and Cornell in Washington program director; David Lee ’15; Dr Monika Safford, MD...

October 26, 2017

Cait M Costello The top image shows cells dying off (light blue) along the tips of intestinal villi, a response to fluid flow in the intestine that mimics living guts The bottom frame shows that when such flow is missing, cells all along villi become...

October 25, 2017

Eric Hansen, right, owner of Hansen Farms in Stanley, New York, speaks with Jim Germain, from Feeding America Like many Americans, Hudson Valley apple farmer Steve Pennings watched the devastation of hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria this September and...

October 24, 2017

Postdoctoral researcher Christine Yao-Yun Chang measures photosynthesis in a soy field near Musgrave Research Farm When it comes to measuring photosynthesis, green is not all that counts A Cornell researcher is using a NASA satellite to measure...