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“We know that the Aedes aegypti mosquito—its common name is yellow fever mosquito—is a very important vector of the Zika virus. It’s the only example I know of a truly domesticated mosquito; it coevolved with humans. In fact, our ancestors...

• Lab of Ornithology
• Development Sociology

For African emigrants 125,000 to 60,000 years ago, the Arabian Peninsula was the first stop en route to populate Europe and Asia. However, genomic evidence has revealed that some put down roots in the desert instead of migrating north, and...

• Computational Biology

CRUISING THE WATERS of Puget Sound in January, the crew aboard the research vessel the Clifford A. Barnes netted some good news: several healthy sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), which had been thought to be functionally extinct in the...

During the past 50 years, the Green Revolution helped transform India’s countryside into productive plots dedicated to the staple grains wheat, rice and maize, but the displacement of vitamin and mineral-rich foods has left much of the rural...

• Animal Science
• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Nutritional Sciences

Come along for the journey as researchers take their skills on the road: rice paddies in The Gambia, a village in Malawi, an Indonesian national park, the Aegean island of Santorini, and the metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil. Shaped by...

• Global Development

Art Direction and Text by Ellen Leventry ’95 Photos by Lindsay France In the 1933 Cornellian, Edmund N. Bacon ′32 waxed poetic about the campus: “The university—built on this hill—overlooking the lake and a rich valley—surrounded by farms and...

Look over the side of a boat on Oneida Lake in early summer: In some places you can see straight down nearly 18 feet below. The water is clearer than it was two decades ago, when the lake was more often covered with algal blooms, and murky...

• Biological Field Station
• Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Natural Resources and the Environment Section

As I write this, the Cornell community is mourning the sudden loss of our university’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett. President Garrett’s death from colon cancer has hit us especially hard as she was just beginning to move forward with her...

A trio of CALS researchers will use their expertise this summer to help students give voice to farmers in Tioga County, New York. The researchers — Todd Schmit, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and...

A study just published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals a new hypothesis on the evolution of the hundreds of species of malaria — including the form that is deadly to humans. Extensive testing of malarial DNA found in...