Search for News & Stories
News
Professor Emeritus Stanley Zahler, whose work during his 35-year Cornell career left a lasting imprint on the teaching of microbial genetics at the university, died April 26 in California. He was 89 years old. Zahler joined Cornell in 1959 as an...
News
President Obama welcomed more than 100 leading scientists and engineers from across the country on May 5 to thank them for their work on some of the most challenging and complex issues in science and technology. Those individuals, including...
News
Commercial vegetable grower Nelson Hoover does not own a car, a computer or a degree. In fact, the 28-year-old never attended high school. But for over a decade, Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Mennonite Conference in Penn Yan, New York, has...
News
Type “New York climate data” into Google and be prepared for a deluge of nearly 8 million search results. Somewhere in that vast flood may be the relevant information you need, but wading through what’s trivial and out of date can be a...
News
Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which supports scientists pursuing biomedical research to advance children’s health. Ma...
News
As a member of the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s elite construction battalion, James Turrell spent seven years putting his blood, sweat and building expertise to work all over the world, including stops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Fukishima Japan...
News
The surge in consumer demand for local foods in recent years has prompted fresh investment in agricultural enterprises, from farmers expanding their marketing efforts to communities establishing new co-ops. But evaluating the economic impacts of...
News
The Mpamba Fruit Juice Producers Cooperative in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, has a track record of innovation, in the form of juices made from local mangos, oranges, tangerines and pineapples. The small, mostly female collective of 22 farmers had...
News
Bryan Duff, senior lecturer in the Horticulture Section, was one of two recipients of the 2016 Kaplan Family Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning. He and Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, were recognized at the 15th annual...
News
A team of Cornell animal science students can add a new line to their resumes: continental champions. Seniors Josh Landis, Kelsey Neckers, Greg Van Ravenswaay and Colleen Smith earned first-place honors in the North American Intercollegiate...
News
Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler found a needle in a haystack: three Ithaca tree swallows among 10 million or so overwintering in Florida this January. The coup was made possible by Winkler’s development of the first...
News
Congrats to Sue Fussell! The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the...
News
Richard “Rick” Harrison, Ph.D. ’77, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a pioneer in his field, died unexpectedly April 12 while visiting Lizard Island, Australia. Harrison was 70 years old. As a researcher whose expertise was both...
News
Anurag Agrawal, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, entomology, and Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named the Robert H. MacArthur Award winner from the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The...
News
Research by food science and chemistry students will aid the Ithaca Beer Company in evidence-based decision making on improving beer taste and brewing efficiency. Gavin Sacks, associate professor of food science, and Chris Gerling, manager of...
News
Inside every plant and animal cell there is a Grand Central Station of sorts, called the Golgi complex, which ships proteins off to other parts of the cell via various pathways. Specific proteins are able to turn these pathways on and off, but...
News
Though only 2 percent of the U.S. population is Jewish, more than 40 percent of packaged food and beverages in the U.S. were labeled as kosher in 2014, according to Lubicom Marketing Consulting. And now, the Cornell Dairyis on board, having...
News
Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, has been named an International Faculty Fellow for 2016–2019 by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Bezner Kerr’s research looks at the broad themes of sustainable...
News
The dietary preferences of deer may be promoting the spread of such invasive species as garlic mustard, Japanese barberry and Japanese stiltgrass, according to a new study that tested white-tailed deer preferences for seven native and eight...
News
It’s a springtime ritual that’s occurred for well over a decade. I get home on a Thursday night in late April after a long day of work at my companion animal veterinary practice. My telephone rings: “Hello, is Dr. Kornet in? I’m a student at...
We openly share valuable knowledge. Often through email.
Sign up for more insights, discoveries and solutions.
Please enter a valid email address to subscribe to the newsletter.