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September 5, 2017

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...

September 4, 2017

When it comes to tackling climate change, the focus often falls on reducing the use of fossil fuels and developing sustainable energy sources But a new Cornell-led study shows that deforestation and subsequent use of lands for agriculture or pasture, especially in...

September 1, 2017

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...

August 30, 2017

Robert Barker/University Photography Graduate student Anna Karavangelas, center, and Patrol Officer Ron Rogers share health and safety information during the Collegetown BEAR Walk Aug 17 About 75 Cornell students and staff, Ithaca city officials, and...

August 29, 2017

Cornell’s Prison Education Program (CPEP) has received $750,000 in grant funding from the College-in-Prison Reentry Program, an effort to expand educational opportunities at correctional facilities across New York state Cornell is one of seven colleges and...

August 28, 2017

Azat Gündoğan In 2014, sociologist Azat Gündoğan and his wife, historian Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan, left tenure-track jobs in the United States to return to their native Turkey They hoped to pursue their research on Turkish history and society, and to raise...

August 25, 2017

Carolus, one of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Titan arums in Minns Garden Summer breezes wafting through Cornell's Minns Garden carried the aromas of fresh grass, notes of floral and, for a few days in August, something akin to rotting...

August 24, 2017

Allison Usavage Adrian Cosmo and José Lozano, co-founders of Biological Energy, pitch their technology to a panel of blue-ribbon judges at the 76West Finals Pitch at Corning Inc Six clean-tech companies working at the intersection of technology and...

August 23, 2017

 Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have announced five new research projects addressing urgent public health and environmental issues The projects are part of a three-year collaboration made...

August 22, 2017

  Students dressed in costume a century ago to celebrate Spring Day in 1922, a joyous occasion first held in 1901 Spring Day was a predecessor to the modern Slope Day  New Cornell University students, faculty and staff are entering a campus forged by...

August 21, 2017

With the launch of the revamped Cornell Fruit Resources website, New York growers have a new resource this season to help keep them productive and profitable “The site is a one-stop shop for commercial fruit growers to access the wealth of information...

August 18, 2017

Cornell researchers are working with Head Start Centers and day schools in New York City on early-intervention work to promote development of spatial skills and language acquisition in preschoolers Marianella Casasola, associate professor of human development...