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January 9, 2018

Provided A pedestrian and walking path atop breakwaters, shown in this rendering, could encourage wetland growth and protect Piermont from storm debris Blaine Friedlander/Cornell Chronicle Abdulaziz Alrifaie explains the New Beginning project to...

January 8, 2018

An unfortunate church dinner more than 100 years ago did more than just spread typhoid fever to scores of Californians It led theorists on a quest to understand why many diseases – including typhoid, measles, polio, malaria, even cancer – take so much longer to...

January 5, 2018

Lindsay France/University Photography Doctoral students Alan Chiu, left, and Duo An hold a sample of TRAFFIC (Thread-Reinforced Alginate Fiber for Islets enCapsulation) In the background, left to right, are Minglin Ma, Dan Luo, Meredith Silberstein and Dr...

December 22, 2017

Farmers in the Northeast are adopting production habits tailored to longer, warming climate conditions, but they may face spring planting whiplash as they confront fields increasingly saturated with rain, according to a new Cornell-led paper in the journal Climatic...

December 21, 2017

President Martha E Pollack has committed the university to a new multi-institution initiative to make public data pertaining to career outcomes for life sciences doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers Specifically, nine universities and one research...

December 20, 2017

Cornell's IARD602 class celebrates 50 years of experiential international learning in 2018 and will head to India over intersession Linda McCandless/Provided As the bus carries Cornell’s International Agriculture and Rural Development 602 class through...

December 19, 2017

A pedestrian and walking path atop breakwaters, shown in this rendering, could encourage wetland growth and protect Piermont from storm debris Provided PIERMONT, NY — Sometimes, it takes a village – to save itself Residents of Piermont are staring...

December 18, 2017

Vithal Karoshi, left, Cornell Malawi AIP country coordinator, explains the seed processing equipment that has been installed at LUANAR in Malawi to Ronnie Coffman, K Vijayaraghavan, Terry Tucker and KV Raman Provided Ida Chapuma, a Malawi farmer, used to...

December 4, 2017

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...

December 1, 2017

Blaine Friedlander/Cornell Chronicle From left, Khaled Hashad, Bo Yang, Max Zhang and Dan Shaw are developing a computational fluid dynamics model for the Green Heart project, to mitigate highway exhaust pollution and improve human health Cornell...

November 28, 2017

For decades researchers have known kids who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods are more likely to face a slew of difficulties in childhood, from higher rates of teen pregnancy and health problems to less education A new Cornell study now shows a...

November 27, 2017

Landscape architecture students take notes on a tour of Coney Island in September, as they conjure ideas to keep it from becoming uninhabitable due to sea level rise   Through the lens of natural history, Coney Island features marshes, wetlands,...