Entomologist May Berenbaum, department head at the University of Illinois, discussed the lack of women in her field April 3 as part of the two-day Frontiers Symposium of leading women life scientists.
Researchers are making image sensors that give detailed readouts of not only the intensity, but also the incident angle of light as it strikes the sensor. This could lead to after-the-fact focusing. (April 2, 2012)
A grant is funding experiments on using sugar to kill aphids and other agriculturally important pests delivered by genetically engineered plants. (April 2, 2012)
Nine graduate students have been chosen to be part of the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The students were inducted at the annual Bouchet conference, March 30-31. (April 2, 2012)
A new mentoring program, Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates, to foster connections between graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented populations, was launched March 14. (March 28, 2012)
As the new director of the Cornell Population Center, professor Dan Lichter is uniting Cornell scholars from across campus to apply demography to pressing social and political issues. (March 26, 2012)
By introducing bottom-up carbohydrate engineering into common bacterial cells, Cornell researchers have discovered a way to make therapeutic protein drugs cheaper and safer. (March 26, 2012)
For the third year running, U.S. News and World Report ranked Cornell's graduate engineering, overall, as the 10th best in the nation. (March 15, 2012)
