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Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest, according to a new scientific review.

With hundreds of thousands of acres of corn in New York, it's crucial to support farmers’ efforts to optimize crop production. Yield varies in crop fields for many reasons, including soil fertility and topography. In a recent study, Cornell CALS...

October 15, 2026 Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez, with Yael Silver and Professor Bruce Lewenstein, presented “Trust, Relational Learning, and Boundary-Work in Citizen Science across Knowledge Systems” at the PCST symposium Building...

The Cornell-led multi-institutional Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems will continue work to transform agriculture by enabling direct two-way communication with crop plants’ internal processes.

As solar grazing expands across the country, new research helps sheep farmers increase profitability and sheds light on the how the number of sheep in solar array fields interacts with beneficial insects.

Catch a flight at LaGuardia Airport and you’ll find Plantaizin' plantain chips among the many snack options for sale. Not only does each small bag pack a flavorful vegan and gluten-free bite, but it also tells the story of a family-run business...

Through plants and personal stories, a new student-led exhibit at Cornell Botanic Gardens explores the concept that people live because the natural world lives.

October 7, 2026 Conferences Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented the paper “Resistance Narratives toward Reparative Justice” at the conference From Durban to Now: 25 Years of Struggle for Reparative Justice. On September 25, Wunpini...

A new engineered gene editing system addresses some of the limitations of current gene editing tools with the hope of improving their use for research, for better crops or to treat diseases.

A doctoral student and a team of Cornell researchers and colleagues created WildFin, a data set composed of nine hours of video that they labeled frame-by-frame with fish behaviors.

October 15, 2026 Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez, with Yael Silver and Professor Bruce Lewenstein, presented “Trust, Relational Learning, and Boundary-Work in Citizen Science across Knowledge Systems” at the PCST symposium Building...

October 7, 2026 Conferences Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented the paper “Resistance Narratives toward Reparative Justice” at the conference From Durban to Now: 25 Years of Struggle for Reparative Justice. On September 25, Wunpini...

September 30, 2026 Awards Professor Jeff Niederdeppe received the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award from the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. The award recognizes a significant and original...

Oarfish, giant fish rarely spotted by humans, have hundreds of unique dorsal fin rays, which help propel the fish forward.

As an undergraduate researcher, Maya Mangala-Munuma '25 found that trees were three times more likely to be damaged in impoverished, racially diverse neighborhoods.

September 24, 2026 Conferences Professor Lee Humphreys was a panel participant in the “Oral Histories of Mobile Communication” conference. How has the mobile phone impacted our lives? The Oral Histories of Mobile Communication project documents...

Scientists found a human genetic element in a poxvirus that is both an important gene for brain function and a jumping gene capable of moving and inserting itself in genomes.

Julianna Lee '24 joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as an undergraduate. During her time at Cornell, she earned a bachelors of science in agricultural sciences and minored in education and Asian American studies. Read on to...

A new book, “Data Are Made, Not Found,” from danah boyd, professor of communication, is an insider’s account of the 2020 census and how the pandemic and political forces from left, right and center threatened to take it down like a Jenga tower.

Cornell faculty are invited to apply for Global Hubs Research Seed Grants by Oct. 14 to launch new international collaborations with researchers at Global Hubs partner universities.