Daniel Decker honored by The Wildlife Society

Cornell Professor of Natural Resources Daniel Decker has received The Wildlife Society's Aldo Leopold Award, the nation's highest award in wildlife sciences. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Jerrold Meinwald wins Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry

Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will receive the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. (Oct. 22, 2012)

Cornell plays big role in Northeast biofuel project

Cornell is playing a major role in a research and education project that seeks to develop perennial feedstock production systems and supply chains for shrub willow and warm-season grasses. (Oct. 17, 2012)

NYC symposium to review latest cancer research advances

A symposium with some of the world's top cancer researchers will take place Nov. 8 at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City. (Oct. 16, 2012)

Students create botanical fashion show

As part of the Art of Horticulture course, three student designers modeled their own creations at a fashion show, with clothes made from plants. (Oct. 16, 2012)

Birds of paradise revealed in Oct. 13 talk

A Cornell ornithologist and a National Geographic photographer will discuss their work studying, videotaping and photographing birds of paradise. (Oct. 9, 2012)

Insects drive rapid shifts in plant ecology and evolution

A study of plant populations provides rare real-time data that demonstrate key predictions by Charles Darwin on the importance of ecology along with natural selection in shaping a species' evolution. (Oct. 4, 2012)

A.D. White professor: Human bodies are 'only 10 percent human' because of microbes

On her first visit to Cornell, A.D. White Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai noted Sept. 25 that plants and animals are dependent on trillions of microorganisms. (Oct. 3, 2012)

Using electroactive bacteria, students design toxin sensor

Cornell University Genetically Engineered Machines has designed and built a biosensor that uses an electroactive bacterial species to detect the toxic substances arsenic and naphthalene in water. (Oct. 2, 2012)