Hundreds of fruit fans stopped by Cornell’s Society of Horticulture festival booth Sept. 29-Oct. 1 for a taste of the future.

Much like swim tests, Dragon Day or celebrating Theodore Zinck, the pumpkin mystery is woven into the fabric of Cornell history.

Cornell was ranked for climate, education and quality of life efforts related to sustainability.

More than 70 Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (ESS) majors turned Minns Garden into an ephemeral art gallery Sept. 29, celebrating the biodiversity of the site.

Our international programs helped support the participation of 12 farmers from Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Self-Help Women’s Association Group in Gujarat, India, during South Asia’s largest farmer-to-farmer fair.

The weeklong course was the first Cornell Alliance for Science training session developed solely for farmers.

Several hundred students gathered at the Cornell Commitment event Sept. 27 to view posters and hear panel discussions on how student scholars spent their summer.

It takes about about 280,000 pounds of apples grown in Ithaca and at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, to make 20,000 gallons of classic Cornell Orchards cider.

The leadership minor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences addresses key skills aimed at helping students excel professionally and in their personal life by enhancing their abilities to understand their own strengths, collaborate with others and build a team, and act as positive role models.

A forum in downtown Ithaca with faculty, staff and partners offered stories of experiences and answered questions about implementing community-engaged initiatives

The introductory online course addresses climate science literacy.

The National Institutes of Health announced Sept. 27 that Cornell is one of three institutions nationwide to receive funding to establish a collaborative research center for the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

The research is providing an unprecedented glimpse into the life of king salmon, allowing Cornell researchers to understand the behavior and movement of adult king salmon with more precision than ever possible before.

Psychological distress can take a toll on more than just health. It can also significantly damage nest eggs, according to a new study by a Cornell financial economist and her co-author.

The consortium aims to address a variety of issues impacting the lakes’ ecology, such as harmful algal blooms and invasive species.

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New research reveals varying levels of mold contamination in commercial sea salts. Among those molds were important food spoilage molds like Aspergillus and Penicillium, and even some notorious producers of mycotoxins.

Molecular clocks suggest birds are much older than we know from the fossil record, but the discrepancy may be due to an underestimate of the pace of evolution.

New findings show that glyphosate does not target the amino acid production and metabolic gadgetry equally among an important soil bacteria species.

Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving modern birds as their only descendants.