Symposium looks at veterinary medicine in public health

The Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine's seventh annual Veterinary Public Health Symposium Sept. 9-11 featured talks by a range of veterinarians, epidemiologists and public health officials.

Neurotech symposium features Brain Prize winners

Some of Cornell's best scientists working on how the brain works will gather Sept. 29 for the Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium. It features three alumni winners of the 2015 Brain Prize.

Golden Goose Award honors bee expert's impact on computing

Thomas Seeley and four engineers from Georgia Tech will share the Fifth Annual Golden Goose Award for the "honeybee algorithm," which adapted basic bee research to the $50 billion web hosting industry.

Grant applications for women in the life sciences due Nov. 7

The Schwartz Research Fund for Women in the Life Sciences is accepting applications, due Nov. 7, for two grants of up to $15,000 each.

Cornell audio producer's radio series wins award

A Cornell audio producer has won a prestigious communication award for a radio series on biologists – including many from Cornell – who use sound to understand the natural world.

Great New York State Fair sports Big Red involvement

Cornell University, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Cornell Cooperative Extension have a big presence at the 2016 New York State Fair.

Menschel fellow Jed Sparks aims to energize field study

As Cornell's 2016-17 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Jed Sparks, who directs the Cornell Isotope Laboratory, will develop a handbook for field teaching this year.

New defense found against bacterial disease in tomatoes

Boyce Thompson Institute and Virginia Tech researchers have discovered how to detect the microbe that causes bacterial speck disease.

Forest elephants need 100 years to rally from poaching

Because forest elephants are one of the world's slowest reproducing mammals, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002, a study finds.