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.

MOOC explores the Science and Politics of the GMO

Cornell's free, Massive Open Online Course, The Science and Politics of the GMO, launches Sept. 13 on edX.

BTI's Joyce Van Eck accelerates tomato engineering

Tomatoes are an ideal model species for plant research, but researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute made them more useful by cutting the time to modify tomato genes by a third.

Herbicides can't stop invasive plants. Can bugs?

Bernd Blossey is close to the end of a research program that identified a leaf beetle, Galerucella birmanica, which feasts on water chestnuts, as the perfect predator to help clear New York's waters.

New University Courses tackle love, food justice

The University Courses initiative, which began in 2012, will offer 18 courses this year. The courses delve deeply into topics of interest to students from a broad range of majors.