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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...
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...
A new initiative on academic integration will promote, bolster and enhance research across Cornell’s campuses, tying together investigation and discovery collaboratively at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca The broad...
For more than a year, as drought spread across the Northeast, agricultural fields went parched, crops withered, wells ran dry During the worst drought since the 1960s, irrigated farms in the Northeast suffered crop losses of up to 35 percent; for unirrigated...
Bactana Animal Health, a new company providing a natural, sustainable alternative to dosing livestock prophylactically with antibiotics and hormones, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences earlier in May The new company...
Organic material added by plant roots and microbes provides nutritious candy for the soil Literally Released cellular sugar fortifies water and nutrient retention, and maintains the porous earth, according to new Cornell research in Advances in Water...
“There are times when transmissible diseases can actually be so serious that they can threaten the very security of the nation or the world [Antimicrobial resistance] has been classified as a problem that reaches that level,” said Dr Arjun Srinivasan,...