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November 6, 2017

Adam Shelepak ’17 during a visit to campus in late summer I grew up in Endwell, New York, a small town about 40 miles from Cornell University Though it’s a short drive from Ithaca, to me it represented a tremendous shift in worldview My freshman year...

November 3, 2017

Dave Burbank Photography From left, Christine Liu and Lavannya Pulluveetil Barrera of Cornell’s student-led Alternative Breaks program with Latonya Assanah, greenhouse manager for Harlem Grown, during a 2017 trip to New York City, where students worked...

November 1, 2017

Robert Barker/University Photography Unilever CEO Paul Polma speaks at the Robert S Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education lecture with President Martha E Pollack Oct 12 in Alice Statler Auditorium Can capitalism be sustainable, in more than one sense of...

October 31, 2017

In a statement released Oct 11, Cornell President Martha E Pollack shared the charge of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate and announced its co-chairs Following recent incidents on and near campus, Pollack issued an initial statement calling the...

October 30, 2017

Cornell Cooperative Extension intern Ryan Graff '20, left, stands with Michael Spiak, owner of The Fossil Stone Vineyards, Greenfield Center, New York  Stepping up to the podium at the 2017 Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) internship reception Oct 11,...

October 27, 2017

From left, Randi Lynn Quackenbush of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier; Gen Meredith of the College of Veterinary Medicine; David Pelletier, professor of nutritional sciences and Cornell in Washington program director; David Lee ’15; Dr Monika Safford, MD...

October 26, 2017

Cait M Costello The top image shows cells dying off (light blue) along the tips of intestinal villi, a response to fluid flow in the intestine that mimics living guts The bottom frame shows that when such flow is missing, cells all along villi become...

October 25, 2017

Eric Hansen, right, owner of Hansen Farms in Stanley, New York, speaks with Jim Germain, from Feeding America Like many Americans, Hudson Valley apple farmer Steve Pennings watched the devastation of hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria this September and...

October 23, 2017

Chris Kitchen/University Photography Neil Mattson, associate professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science Growing crops in controlled environments – in greenhouses, plant factories and in vertical farms – provides...

October 20, 2017

Alistair Englebert Preston/Provided Kanyinsola Obayan, right, speaks with summer camp students in Nigeria in July 2016 Fourteen Cornell students were selected by the Clinton Foundation as delegates to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University...

October 19, 2017

Bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh How have systems of communication evolved among the great apes How did language arise How can humans and apes best communicate Oct 20-21, Cornell will host a transdisciplinary workshop on apes,...

October 9, 2017

Yoshiki Harada/CALS Nina Bassuk uses a penetrometer to measure soil compaction on the National Mall in Washington, DC The elm trees that ring the National Mall in Washington, DC, have stood witness to presidential inaugurations, given shaded respite to...