Closed for six years of storm-related repairs, the Cascadilla Gorge Trail – from College Avenue to Treman Triangle Park in downtown Ithaca – reopened Monday, Sept. 15, with the ceremonial exhortation: “Go take a hike!”
Peter Davies, a Cornell plant physiologist, will serve as an adviser to the U.S. government on agricultural and food policy issues as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. (April 27, 2011)
The Institute for the Social Sciences is supporting 15 projects and three conferences through its biannual small grant program: $12,000 to investigators for research and $5,000 for conferences.
In his Iscol lecture, land-mending advocate Luc Gnacadja warned that the worldwide problem of soil erosion contributes to poverty and hunger and threatens security and freedom.
Bruce Ganem, Ronald Harris-Warrick, Mary Beth Norton and Richard Rand have been chosen for the 2008 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for excellence in teaching and advising. (Jan. 26, 2009)
Cornell is the major research partner in a consortium that is creating culturally acceptable insurance products to reduce the impact of extreme weather on some of the developing world’s most vulnerable populations.
A central claim of the open access movement is that citations increase when articles are freely available. A new study finds the claim is false. (April 13, 2011)