One Health
Next-generation solar cells made from organic compounds hold great promise in meeting future energy needs, but researchers are still striving to gain a deep understanding of the materials involved – including the efficiency with which they convert light into...
New York greenhouses are increasingly tasked to do two things seemingly at odds with one another: match consumer appetite for increased local vegetable production while dramatically reducing overall energy consumption A public-private consortium led by...
To develop new knowledge for fighting economic insecurity in upstate New York, a set of leaders has formed a network to collaborate and share best practices The Program Work Team on Poverty and Economic Hardship, a group of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)...
Cornell Botanic Gardens has expanded the Palmer-Adams Preserve and its Bald Hill Natural Area with a gift of 311 acres from Arthur H Adams ’63, BCV ’65, MEN ’66, and his siblings Andrea A Hastings and Drew D Adams The tract, located on Bald Hill School...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...