A Q&A with Dr. Kelly Knickelbein of the veterinary college

Knickelbein joined the College of Veterinary Medicine as assistant clinical professor in the Section of Ophthalmology.

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Gift from Delta Gamma supports Women’s Resource Center

A recent gift from Cornell’s Chi Chapter of Delta Gamma will create an annual speaker series for the Cornell Women’s Resource Center, and provide funding for the series in perpetuity.

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Sustainable Cornell book club launches this Spring

A newly launched book club will explore resources and dialogue in small campus discussion groups to explore issues like climate change, environmental injustice, consumerism, and sustainability.

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AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin

Biologist Alex Flecker and computer scientist Carla Gomes co-led a project that employed AI and around 40 researchers in an attempt to determine optimal placement of around 350 hydropower dams in the Amazon river basin.

Rock stars on Mars: Students look for life on big red planet

For the past year, Cornell doctoral students Megan Barrington and Christian Tate have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.

Radio interview highlights Tompkins County Legislature's priorities in 2022

Shawn Black, Chair of the Tompkins County Legislature, discusses county priorities for the coming year.

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$12M grant establishes Duffield Institute for Animal Behavior

Thanks to a new $12.1 million grant from the Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation, the College of Veterinary Medicine is launching a new institute focused on companion animal behavior that will serve as a one-of-a-kind resource for veterinarians and pet owners nationwide; The Duffield Institute for Animal Behavior.

Endowment strengthens museum’s K-12 outreach

Moira Hintsa ’74 and her family have endowed the Hintsa Family Manager of School and Family Programs at the Johnson Museum, supporting a program that reaches thousands of local and regional children each year.

Temperature, reproduction link holds promise for insect control

Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that shut down in cold temperatures and slow reproduction, a system conserved in many insects, including mosquitoes, which could provide a target for pest control.