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Today’s launch of the Climate Jobs New York campaign and Gov Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he will dramatically increase the state’s efforts to combat climate change represents a historic breakthrough by positioning unions to tackle the climate crisis and...
Former Vice President Joe Biden extolled his love of ice cream and his optimism for the future of America in his 2017 Senior Convocation Address at Cornell, May 27 at Schoellkopf Field Biden, introduced by Cornell President Martha E Pollack as “one of the key...
Deteriorating infrastructure, rising seas and more frequent extreme weather events are challenging today’s engineers, architects and urban planners like never before On May 23, more than 60 people gathered at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s...
Urging the approximately 6,000 members of the Class of 2017 to be agents of change in the world by “clarifying your own values,” President Martha E Pollack sent them off into that world during Cornell University’s 149th Commencement Ceremony, May 28 at...
With the world facing a vast array of food and nutrition security challenges that pose significant humanitarian, environmental and national security risks, a national commission that included leaders from Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
A rich trove of once-hidden Cornell agricultural research from journals and other serial publications is now available to the public Cornell University Library collaborated with Kathryn J Boor ’80, the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and...
Cornell scientists and engineers, working with international teams, are seeing wind in high resolution They are creating the world’s largest, most-detailed wind maps ever in the picturesque hills of Perdigão, Portugal This research aims to find how wind and...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed a comprehensive environmental agreement May 11 among eight nations that adopted the first Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) strategy and action plan, developed by representatives of those nations including the Atkinson...
For optimal yield and fruit quality, apple growers in the United States have long relied on chemical solutions to generate spring blossom thinning to promote the growth of larger, higher-quality fruit by giving them less competition for carbohydrate However, in...
The Hudson River has been a critical part of New York’s infrastructure since before the country’s founding, linking New York City with Albany, the Erie Canal and beyond The corridor is also environmentally rich: The watershed that feeds the Hudson comprises...
Rebecca Stoltzfus, vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of nutritional studies, has been announced as the candidate of choice to become the 18th president of Goshen College, her undergraduate alma mater Founded in 1894, Goshen is a private...