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Academic focus: Resilient landscapes and landscape laboratories Research summary: My work explores how landscape architects and designers might better design “with” changing landscapes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Over the...

Academic focus: Synthetic biology and precision fermentation Research summary: My work aims to harness engineered microbial cell factories to convert low-cost feedstocks into high value products. Using synthetic biology tools, we can harness...

Academic focus: Environmental chemistry and microbiology of emerging contaminants in agricultural and environmental systems, with a focus on PFAS, pesticides and contaminant-impacted bioresources within circular economy and resource recovery...

Academic focus: Vegetable pathology Research summary: My applied vegetable pathology research program is aimed at improving disease management for important vegetable crops in New York state. Topics include fungicide resistance screening and...

Academic focus: Organelle quality control in health and disease Research summary: The Fischer Lab is interested in mechanisms of organelle quality control – or how cells monitor the integrity of their internal compartments to preserve organelle...

Academic focus: Chemical ecology, chemical evolution, agricultural chemistry Research summary: My research program investigates the functional roles of metabolites in plant–insect–microbe interactions. Integrating metabolomics, molecular biology...

Academic focus: Regulatory roles of bacterial microproteins Research summary: My research investigates how bacterial microproteins (100 amino acids or less) function as regulatory elements that tune core signaling and metabolic pathways. By...

This year’s Creative Teaching Awards faculty recipients have taken students for hands-on, local learning experiences well beyond the classroom walls.

An Ithaca cemetery is home to one of the largest and oldest recorded aggregations of ground nesting bees in the world.

A new analysis finds that grass-fed beef can compete with grain-fed beef in New York state and New England, particularly if production is scaled up.

Three new Cornell University Library exhibits explore the beauty and fragility of Earth’s biodiversity in habitats near and far, from elusive species on other continents to wildlife in our own backyards.

April 8, 2026 Awards Graduate student Rosie Nguyen received the Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellowship from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. The fellowship is part of the East Asia Program’s Area Studies Fellowships, which support...

Cornell Atkinson has announced 40 research grants to support undergraduate and graduate student researchers whose work will support sustainability, biodiversity and agriculture.

At Wild Work Farm in the North Country’s Keene Valley, the last frost can come as late as mid-June, and the first frost usually hits in September, said owner and operator Lissa Goldstein. Coping with that very short growing season is one of...

The device, called an electroantennogram, allows researchers to identify the exact scent molecules detected by an insect’s antennae.

Warming temperatures cause tree swallows to nest up earlier than they once did, but early spring cold snaps can hinder nestlings’ growth and survival.

Nearly 150 dairy industry professionals gathered in East Syracuse, NY last week to hear from industry experts about the latest trends and research related to dairy herd health and nutrition at the 2026 Herd Health and Nutrition Conference. For...

While gene drives have great potential for controlling weeds, seed banks can foil their efforts.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of individual cells, an advance that could accelerate discoveries in development, neuroscience and...