Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Cornell receives $25.2M in funding for next generation cassava breeding
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom are investing $25.2 million to improve the staple crop's productivity and build human and technical capacity for plant breeding in sub-Saharan Africa. The five-year project is hosted by Cornell University with five partner institutions.

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
University of Missouri professor Stephen Alexander named Fellow of AAAS
University of Missouri researcher Stephen Alexander, a professor of biological sciences, has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Cracking Grand Canyon's rock code
In a new book published by the Geological Society of America, editors J. Michael Timmons of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and Karl E. Karlstrom of the University of New Mexico, along with several individual chapter authors, describe the rock record of Grand Canyon and illustrate its complexity. For them, Grand Canyon, one of the premier geologic landscapes in the world, carries within its structure intriguing mysteries of time and space.