Study tracks food’s value from farm to plate globally

A team of researchers, led by Dyson professors Chris Barrett and Miguel Gómez, has developed the “Global Food Dollar” method, which distributes the consumer’s net purchasing dollar across all farm and post-farmgate activities.

Researchers look to gut microbiome to improve bone health

A Cornell-led collaboration has been awarded a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the ways that the gut microbiome – that mass of microorganisms inside us all – impacts bone quality. 

Gift to establish K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics

The $24 million gift will enable the center’s unique mission to use bioacoustics to help conserve biodiversity in some of the most remote yet species-rich parts of the world.

New grad transformed lives with palazzo pants

Cornell women's volleyball's Alena Madar '21 used palazzo pants to transform the lives of tribal women in India.

Around Cornell

New A&S faculty bring Indigenous studies expertise

Two new faculty members who specialize in Native American and Indigenous literatures will join the Department of Literatures in English for the fall of 2021.

Rural sociologist Frank Young dies at 92

Professor emeritus Frank W. Young died on April 26 at his home in Ithaca. As a professor of development sociology, Young was best known for his work in social differentiation and social structure, and later in population health.

New center expands community engagement opportunities

The center will open new pathways for Cornellians to embrace the university’s land-grant mission to improve lives in New York state, across the nation and around the world.

Face value? Attractiveness biases financial decisions

Research by Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, found attractive investment partners were seen as more trustworthy even if they weren’t the most profitable.

‘Consummate communitarian’ retiring as faculty dean

In 2020, Charles “Charlie” Van Loan volunteered to stay on as dean of the faculty for an additional year “after it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage how we run the place,” he said.