A new study demonstrates that birds can partially compensate for deteriorating habitat conditions by delaying the start of spring migration and completing the journey faster – but the strategy comes with a decline in overall survival.
The Bezos Earth Fund grant will support a project developing low-cost virtual livestock fencing that would benefit farmers and animals, improve public health in developing countries and combat climate change.
Christopher James Cowen, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been named Cornell’s next executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1.
Using a biomaterials-based organoid, a multi-institution team led by Matt DeLisa of Cornell Engineering was able to assess the strength of the immune response to a glycoengineered vaccine in days, instead of months.
While a student at Cornell, Hu Shih 1914 imagined and later led a literary movement resulting in the adoption of a common, accessible language in China. The language reforms that emerged with Hu Shih at Cornell went on to change an entire nation. A stone bench and interpretive sign invite community members to the northwest corner of Beebe Lake, where they can learn more about Hu Shih.
A Cornell multidisciplinary research center that studies chronic fatigue syndrome has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health – funding that will enable experts to continue work on the mysterious and debilitating condition.
As automobile electrification speeds up, the world faces a need for critical metals to make these vehicles possible, with high demand setting off economic snags and supply-chain hitches.
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
