Thirty-three seniors from Cornell's seven undergraduate colleges are honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars in ceremony May 25 in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
A new study of the distribution in North American soils of Streptyomyces, a genus of bacteria is the source of 80 percent of antibiotics, finds it corresponds with latitude.
A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation," will be launched during the annual Discovery Channel Shark Week (June 26 - July 3).
William Pardee, a seed expert who led plant breeding efforts at Cornell during the pivotal era when biotechnology transformed the field, died May 1 in Ithaca. He was 86.
Coffee hours at the Carl Sagan Institute have spurred multi-disciplinary talks among faculty members from 11 departments and five colleges and schools at Cornell.
Cardiologist Dr. Erica Jones started an internship at Weill Cornell Medicine in 1992 and never left. She directs the institution's Heart Health program.
Challenging an existing model, Cornell researchers show the existence of two independent epidermal stem cell populations that divide at different rates and both contribute to injury repair.
Plant scientists have discovered a tiny percentage of regulatory DNA that accounts for roughly half of the variation in observable traits found in corn.
A Cornell-led study published May 11 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe provides the strongest evidence yet that human DNA influences the type and number of bacteria that reside in each person’s gut.
