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Once dormant like a spore waiting for the right conditions to germinate, a club for fungi aficionados has been revived by a group of dedicated students. The Fantastic Fungi Fanatics (FFF) became an active club again last fall, with Rico Lin ’18...

It’s the first day of class. Students take their seats, pull out their notebooks... and watch dozens of sea lions give birth, mere feet away. Close encounters with sea lions, dolphins and penguins were regular occurrences for students in BIOEE...

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Ecosystems

Senior Allie Cohen is looking forward to hanging up her lab coat and heading to law school, but not until she untangles a few more mysteries of fruit fly mating. The biology and society senior—and six-year veteran of fruit fly research—will...

An agricultural development agency in Tanzania, a marketing firm in Thailand, and a finance and banking firm in Australia: These are just a few of the workplaces that will host students this summer through the new CALS Global Fellows Program...

• Global Development

With 75% of supermarket sales captured by chains, independent grocers face stiff competition for consumers’ grocery dollars. A new program offered by the Cornell Food Industry Management Program (FIMP) this September will focus on strategies for...

Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) will be home to a comprehensive center combining food safety research and training for New York growers and producers, offering a farm-to-fork bulwark against foodborne illness in...

• Institute for Food Safety
• Food Science
• Food

In a competition for funds among New York’s Regional Economic Development Councils, the Southern Tier won $500 million over the next five years in New York’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, including a project that taps CALS expertise in...

Cornell brought its message of education, discovery and engagement to the state capital Jan. 26 for Cornell Day in Albany, taking the opportunity to show off its diverse offerings to lawmakers and visitors to the capital. A casual breakfast and...

The rebuilt Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse opened Feb. 9, continuing the legacy of botanical discovery of its namesake, the first dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The 4,000-square-foot facility on Tower Road...

• School of Integrative Plant Science

A new College of Business will bring together Cornell’s three accredited business programs: the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of...

“We know that the Aedes aegypti mosquito—its common name is yellow fever mosquito—is a very important vector of the Zika virus. It’s the only example I know of a truly domesticated mosquito; it coevolved with humans. In fact, our ancestors...

• Lab of Ornithology
• Development Sociology

For African emigrants 125,000 to 60,000 years ago, the Arabian Peninsula was the first stop en route to populate Europe and Asia. However, genomic evidence has revealed that some put down roots in the desert instead of migrating north, and...

• Computational Biology

CRUISING THE WATERS of Puget Sound in January, the crew aboard the research vessel the Clifford A. Barnes netted some good news: several healthy sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), which had been thought to be functionally extinct in the...

During the past 50 years, the Green Revolution helped transform India’s countryside into productive plots dedicated to the staple grains wheat, rice and maize, but the displacement of vitamin and mineral-rich foods has left much of the rural...

• Animal Science
• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Nutritional Sciences

Come along for the journey as researchers take their skills on the road: rice paddies in The Gambia, a village in Malawi, an Indonesian national park, the Aegean island of Santorini, and the metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil. Shaped by...

• Global Development

Art Direction and Text by Ellen Leventry ’95 Photos by Lindsay France In the 1933 Cornellian, Edmund N. Bacon ′32 waxed poetic about the campus: “The university—built on this hill—overlooking the lake and a rich valley—surrounded by farms and...

Look over the side of a boat on Oneida Lake in early summer: In some places you can see straight down nearly 18 feet below. The water is clearer than it was two decades ago, when the lake was more often covered with algal blooms, and murky...

• Biological Field Station
• Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Natural Resources and the Environment Section

As I write this, the Cornell community is mourning the sudden loss of our university’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett. President Garrett’s death from colon cancer has hit us especially hard as she was just beginning to move forward with her...