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The mosquito that transmits dengue virus in the Peruvian Amazon appears to be moving from urban areas to rural communities that lack health care.

Why do cats purr when they are happy? Can I still eat that pizza I left out overnight? What is the carbon footprint of a football game? CALS courses are designed to help you seek answers to your everyday questions, leading you to build knowledge...

The Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, led by Cornell, has received a five-year, $8.7 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to train and educate vector-borne disease professionals.

On Sept. 1, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 18th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 13th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The ceremony recognized the notable and wide...

Cornell Atkinson has awarded seed funding to nine interdisciplinary projects that address a range of sustainability topics.

In Medellin, Colombia, low-income residents who lived in close proximity to new public transit stations had increased rates of mosquito-transmitted dengue fever, according to a new study.

The popular biennial Plagues and People course focuses on epidemics in history that have had the biggest impacts on human culture and society.

The 52 Cornell projects that have been funded with a total of $3.9 million, beginning Oct. 1, are administered through the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). They include a project from Qi Wang, professor of...

The College of Engineering student found her academic footing and forged a new major as a junior with help and inspiration from Drew Margolin, associate professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...

Insufficient infrastructure, limited guidance on best practices and lack of institutional capacity also are impediments to improved tick monitoring, the researchers found. Their report, “A Survey of Tick Surveillance and Control Practices in the...

More than 40 students and over a dozen faculty and staff were selected for their outstanding achievements in academics, teaching, advising and professional service. Because of restrictions to in-person campus events this spring, Dean Boor...

The first was how best to help her students. “Everyone is just stunned ..., obviously because of the coronavirus, but also because of their research suddenly stopping or slowing down,” said Wolfner, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular...

Four Cornell researchers – two entomologists and two engineers – took a deeper look at this process. In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports on Dec. 6, they documented nanoscale changes in the sperm of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and...