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New York growers will get a sustainable boost this planting season from the new Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Act – backed up by Cornell research – and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Though Glenn Morgan Parker '25 shared what it was like to take an online course as a Precollege student, thanks to the Atkinson scholarship, and how it helped prepare her for her first year at Cornell.
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The $8.8 million dollar aquaculture industry in New York state depends on shellfish hatcheries for seed stock every year. But spawning in conventional hatchery operations produces more larvae than can be used for seeding—causing hatchery...
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Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor at Dyson, and colleagues tracked ad viewership using tools that, instead of just monitoring the television, measured actual viewer presence in the room, and focal attention on the screen.
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Students honed their business acumen for helping all creatures great and small at the Animal Health Hackathon, held virtually Feb. 4-6.
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Ben Furnas ’06 has been hired as executive director of The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative.
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A Cornell program, Breeding Insight, is adding seven new plant and animal species to its arsenal of supported specialty crops and animals for 2022.
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Vaccination Conversations with Scientists, a group of more than 100 Cornell scientist volunteers educating the public about vaccines, is reporting success in shifting unvaccinated people’s beliefs about the shots.
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Thomas Wyatt Turner, Ph.D. 1921, was the first Black person at Cornell to earn a doctorate and the first Black person in the nation to earn a doctorate in botany. He was also a pioneer in the civil rights movement.
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The “ Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present ” workshop, to be held in person from August 8-12 at Cornell University, will provide pre-tenure scholars from any university an opportunity to explore new...
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As climate change gains force, the foods people choose to eat are increasingly tipping the balance towards ecological harm. The article, “Circularity in Animal Production Requires a Change in the EAT-Lancet Diet in Europe,” published Jan. 6 in...
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Two faculty members are winners of 2022 Schwartz Research Funds for Women and other Underrepresented Faculty in the Life Sciences.
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Cameron Wesley Scott, M.M.H. ’21, and Jeremiah Swain, M.M.H. ’20, hope to create one of upstate New York’s first boutique cannabis hotels and make social change at the same time.
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A new Cornell study could help inform the development of offshore wind farms by providing detailed models characterizing the frequency, intensity and height of low-level jet streams over the Atlantic coast.
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In the arid world of processing flour and food powders, where using water to sanitize is impossible, Cornell researchers are studying dry, superheated steam.
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Scientists have found that hummingbirds have more than one level of torpor, the energy-saving state they enter at night.
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As the associate dean for land-grant affairs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Julie Suarez is recognized across the state as an advocate for New York agriculture and a trusted partner in furthering the outreach conducted by...
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Cornell's Office of Academic Integration has announced 15 new multi-investigator seed grants, including support for a project on climate change, pollen and asthma attacks and another to develop a microbial delivery system for a unique treatment of colorectal cancer.
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The 25th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is scheduled for Feb. 18-21. All are invited to join the count so that as many birds as possible can become part of a massive database used by scientists to track changes in bird populations over time.
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