Maren Vitousek, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has received a $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to study links between stress, social connectedness, health and future performance.
Indoor farming entrepreneurs and experts came to Cornell in early November to learn how to create viable businesses for local vegetables and produce grown indoors.
Cornell and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced the creation of a new biological control lab on campus to protect the state’s ecologically important hemlock trees.
Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Reducing antibiotic resistance in animals and developing a lubricating formula in joints for people suffering from arthritis are two of seven projects that received Center for Advanced Technology annual grants.
Olaf F. Larson, a pioneer in rural sociology research in the 1930s and a Cornell faculty member for 71 years, died Nov. 14 in Mount Dora, Florida. He was 107 years old and had been Cornell’s oldest living emeritus professor.
Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, suggested strong carbon-tracking improvements be included in a proposed New York State Senate bill to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
