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A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for managing and restoring fire-prone forests across California’s Sierra Nevada region.

William Boyle ’55, MBA ’56, has given a significant gift to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to support renovations to the Plant Science Building – the largest gift so far to the current college campaign. “Cornell has been a...

Thirteen faculty members from across Cornell are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.

Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.

Employment News Graduate Student Pengfei Zhao has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Events On Monday, March 10, 2:55, Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., is...

Startups in the food and agriculture sectors can apply through May 15.

Faculty and staff from across Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) came together on March 3 to honor 38 awardees at the annual CALS Faculty and Staff Awards.

Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

Amy Barkley is a livestock specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Southwest New York Dairy Livestock and Field Crops Program. Although Amy specializes in poultry, she also supports farmers with beef, sheep, goats, camelids, swine...

Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez (with Eddy Machaca) presented “Beyond Language: Collaborative Translation and Cultural Recovery in Science Communication with Quechua Communities” at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program...

New research provides evidence that – depending on your genetic makeup and oral microbiome – starch could contribute to cavities and gum disease.

The process of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland, known as agrivoltaics, has seen a great leap in Cornell research activity.

A Cornell-led team has developed a method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers using underwater microphones and machine learning, potentially offering a safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this endangered species.

At Cornell AgriTech, graduate students play an important role in innovative plant breeding research. In this interview, we speak with Bahiya Zahl, a Ph.D. student in the lab of professor Larry Smart whose work in hemp genetics and breeding could...

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend toward the sun.

An early childhood love of plants, fostered by his grandfather, blossomed into a career for Mike Basedow, tree fruit specialist with Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture team.

Teaching is a practice, and a craft. It’s also an art. And the art of teaching is the subject of a new workshop series, which debuts this February at the Center for Teaching Innovation, with “The Art of Discussion.”