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Students in a field of goldenrod

News

Kendrick Nakamura ‘24 kept ants as a hobby for years while maintaining a career in IT, before realizing that the insects were his real passion. He came to Cornell to major in Entomology and said that one of his favorite courses was Insect...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dilmun Hill Student Farm
  • Entomology
A Florida scrub-jay

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Warmer winters driven by climate change reduced the number of offspring raised annually by the federally threatened Florida scrub-jay by 25% since 1981, according to a study co-led by researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
Brown soil and green plants in a field

News

Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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News

Most of the land use for watersheds in the Finger Lakes is farmland. We enjoy this working landscape for the beauty, utility, habitat, recreation and food it provides us all. However, this also means that agriculture can be a significant source...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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A bird sits on a twig with a piece of snake skin in its beak

News

Cavity-nesting birds decorate with snake skin to deter predators

When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn’t just making an interesting home décor choice. For some birds, it keeps predators at bay.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
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Exhibit

Join us in Mann Library on March 14 for the opening celebration of our new exhibit, From Nabokov's Net: Nabokov’s contributions to butterfly science & the Cornell University Insect Collection . Produced in collaboration with the Cornell...
  • Entomology
Graduate students in the field of animal science eating dinner.

Seminar

348 Frank Morrison Hall 507 Tower Road Ithaca, NY 14853 Schedule: 9/23: Andres Ortega "Examining the Role of Non-Essential AA for Milk Yield and Energetic Efficiency: Abomasal Infusion of Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids using Energy as...
  • Animals
  • science communication
  • Animal Science