Expo features flyers, hoverers, soarers and wind catchers

The first on-campus Aeronautics/Alternative Energy Expo March 28 showed visitors the power of flight and wind.

Disease-resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests

Plant breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a variety of tomato that deters pests and counters the killer viruses they transmit.

Environmentalist E.O. Wilson to give Olin Lecture

Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner often considered the father of the modern environmental movement, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 19.

Classes use energy dashboard to study conservation

Thanks to a new online dashboard, facilities staff in the College of Human Ecology can view real-time data on water and energy consumption in the LEED Platinum-rated Human Ecology Building.

Student founds sustainable seafood program

Katharine Leigh '15 is following her passions for seafood and marine biology through an outreach program, Green Catch: Sustaining the Blue by Catching Green.

Faculty stir up solutions at climate change forum

About 100 faculty members and graduate students from fields ranging from the physical and natural sciences to economics and the humanities gathered March 28 at the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum.

Worm research may help humans live longer

Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell scientists have shown that roundworms live longer bathed in their own secretions. Understanding this chemical model, might help humans live longer.

Things to Do, March 29-April 5

Events this week include BOOM, showcasing student tech research; a lecture on C.S. Lewis, a debate on fracking, an electronic music symposium, statistician Nate Silver and Anonymous 4 in Sage Chapel.

World's only dog test for a culprit in 'kennel cough'

The world's first diagnostic test for canine pneumovirus, a unique culprit in 'kennel cough' - canine respiratory illness common in shelters and kennels - is now available.