New CALS minor focuses on leadership

A new minor in leadership in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences available this fall will focus on the skills students need to attract employers across all disciplines.

Community engagement initiatives deliver reciprocal benefits

On Sept. 27, a forum in downtown Ithaca with Cornell faculty, staff, and partners offered stories of experiences and answered questions about implementing community-engaged initiatives.

Online course begins quenching climate literacy thirst

Cornell professors and Cornell Cooperative Extension specialists have created an introductory online course about climate change to address the public appetite for climate science literacy.

$9.4M NIH grant funds chronic fatigue syndrome center

The National Institutes of Health announced Sept. 27 that Cornell is one of three institutions nationwide to receive funding to establish a collaborative research center for the study of chronic fatigue syndrome.

With satellite tags, researchers track, protect Lake Ontario king salmon

Advanced pop-off satellite tags developed by Cornell researchers and attached to the king salmon in Lake Ontario map the movements and feeding behavior in of the valuable fish.

Cornell joins consortium to foster Great Lakes research

A regional consortium that includes Cornell is collaborating to preserve the Great Lakes thanks to a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Anxiety, depression can diminish retirement savings

People with psychological distress are nearly 25 percent less likely to have a retirement savings account, according to financial economist Vicki Bogan. That means up to $42,000 less in savings for married couples.

Beneficial soil bacteria face a weed-killing threat from above

Cornell researchers, led by Ludmilla Aristilde, have found an agricultural conflict: negative consequences of the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate on Pseudomonas, a soil-friendly bacteria.

Asteroid that killed dinosaurs may have sped up bird evolution

A new study considers whether the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs led to a temporary acceleration in the rate of genetic evolution among its avian survivors.