18 Graduate and Professional Students Lobby on Capitol Hill
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Cornell sent 18 graduate and professional students from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City to Capitol Hill for Cornell Advocacy Day April 5.
Students Tag Arts Quad Trees, Touting Their Benefits
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Students placed price tags on about 80 trees April 18 to demonstrate the dollar value of the ecosystem services the trees provide, such as energy savings and intercepting storm water runoff.
On the Map: CALS in the City
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Portraits of researchers and educators on their turf, from the rat burrows of city parks to the furrows of a rooftop farm in Brooklyn.
Expanding Your Horizons Conference Inspires Young Female Scientists
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Cornell faculty and graduate students welcomed girls in grades 7-9 to campus April 15 to learn about STEM and discover role models in the fields of science and math.
Radical Collaboration Protects Colombia’s Birds, Coffee Farmers
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Two Cornell researchers are leading a collaboration that aims to benefit both coffee farmers in Colombia and the country's biodiverse bird population.
Bees Face Heavy Pesticide Peril from Drawn-Out Sources
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Honeybees encounter high danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to an analysis of the bee's own food, according to Cornell research in Nature Scientific Reports, April 19.
ISS Supporting Faculty Research Projects, Conference
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The Institute for the Social Sciences' Small Grants Program is funding a series of critical social science projects and a conference with its spring 2017 awards.
The Science of Shade
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From engineering soil for street trees to diversifying the urban forest, insights from Nina Bassuk on making horticulture thrive in cities.
Cities and the Power of Place
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Richard Stedman explores our sense of place in the age of migration, global mobility, and urbanization.
Healthy Harvest
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Research and recommendations from the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities project protects urban gardeners from residual soil contaminants.
5 Bottom-Line Lessons from the Big Leagues
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Not everyone can make it to the Big Leagues, but Kevin Kniffin reveals five lessons everyone can learn from sports.
Mann Library Exhibit Introduces Naturalist Mark Catesby
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A new exhibit at Mann Library aims to introduce Cornellians to the early 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, whose impact on botany and horticulture was enormous, and runs through June.
Facts in Five: For the Birds
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Pigeons, crows, sparrows, starlings and killdeer: These city-dwelling species rank low in the pecking order but have hidden talents and creature culture worthy of a second glance.
Joe Biden to Deliver Senior Convocation Address May 27
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Vice President Joe Biden, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, will give the keynote address at this year's Senior Convocation, during Cornell's 149th Commencement Weekend.
Staying in Sync
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From preventing chronic sleep disruption to supporting people with bipolar disorder, researchers are leveraging smartphone technology for health and well-being.
Cornell Heads to D.C. for Science March, Sustainability Summit
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Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.
Cornell Research Supports Broad Cross-Section of New York Agriculture
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Cornell projects with a focus on apples, dairy, field crops, grapes, and vegetables received $1.1 million in funding from the New York Farm Viability Institute.
Africa's Great Generation
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Rapid urbanization and a young population is the challenge of a century.
Engaged Graduate Student Grants Fund Ph.D. Students
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Cornell doctoral students will collaborate with community partners from Ithaca to India on research projects supported by 2017 Engaged Graduate Student Grants.
Historian Chronicles Islanders' Fight for Environmental Justice
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Mary X. Mitchell, a historian of science and technology and a postdoctoral fellow, describes how a former nuclear test site became a proving ground for a new legal definition of environmental impact.
