Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Empire Farm Days showcases soil health efforts

Empire Farm Days, the largest outdoor agricultural trade show in the Northeastern U.S., focused on soil health Aug. 7-9 in Seneca Falls, New York.

Research support available through the Schwartz Research Fund

Women faculty in the life sciences have until Nov. 5 to apply for a grant from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women conducting research in the Life Science.

Were Australia’s lyrebirds the first ‘meme generators’?

Cornell students will study Australia’s Superb Lyrebird to see how their songs have evolved.

Cornell to conduct Earth Source Heat seismic survey Sept. 21-25

Cornell will conduct a survey of the sub-terrain on campus and in the towns of Ithaca and Dryden Sept. 21-25, the next step in its plan to implement Earth Source Heat.

New lecture series features transformative life scientists

Cornell’s Life Sciences Lecture Series will feature talks by four speakers who are all interdisciplinary, internationally renowned scientists.

Gift establishes Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation

With a $7.5 million gift from the Friedman Family Foundation, Weill Cornell Medicine has established a cross-campus center dedicated to improving human health through research in the complex relationship between nutrition, inflammation and the development of disease.

Big, blue Everest Seedless is Cornell’s newest grape

Everest Seedless, the newest offering from Cornell’s grape breeders, is a big, bold fruit that comes with a towering history.

Veterinary college partners open new clinic at Belize Zoo

Members of the College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated the opening of a new clinic at the Belize Zoo this summer.

Cornell Food Venture Center feeds Somali immigrant’s dream

What began as family recipes from Bisharo Ali's native Somalia are now commercial products, thanks in part to help from the Cornell Food Venture Center.