Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health awards seed funding to five conservation efforts around the globe

The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to spark pioneering applied research to advance wildlife conservation solutions. The fund prioritizes initiatives that improve the health of free-ranging wildlife and/or solve environmental problems via a One Health lens.

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Is it a skull deformity or just a tiny dog?

A new study deepens the understanding of canine skull shapes, helping veterinarians distinguish problems from normal variation.

‘Double the damage’: Warming climate reduces milk quality and quantity

Heat stress on dairy cows not only decreases the amount of milk produced but also the fat and protein content, doubling the economic losses.

13 student projects earn CIDA Research Innovation Fund awards

Thirteen Cornell students will spend the summer advancing new technologies for agriculture after receiving 2026 Research Innovation Fund awards from the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture. 

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Pew grant project to design hepatitis C vaccine built on natural immunity

Andrew Flyak, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named a 2026 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

Patrick Webb, renowned international scholar, to lead Ashley School

Patrick Webb will join Cornell as the inaugural executive director of the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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Cultivating future scientists through plants and partnerships

Students from Buffalo's McKinley High School — home to one of the few high-school horticulture programs in New York state — visited Cornell May 19 to view the work of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS).

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Cornell Atkinson awards drive progress in tech, ag, sustainability

Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease spread.

Farmed oysters may boost New York’s dwindling wild populations

A new study offers genetic evidence and proof that farmed eastern oysters are adding to and breeding with wild eastern oyster populations in the western and central Long Island Sound.