Ten on faculty receive NSF CAREER awards

The National Science Foundation-funded awards support early-career development activities of teacher-scholars. (March 6, 2012)

Vet student uses 'Project Runway' designers to help save threatened species

Gabby Wagner, a vet student, has launched a yearlong campaign to raise awareness and money for endangered species, using high fashion as a hook.

Student/faculty team stresses value of in-country food aid purchases at Rome meeting

Five Cornell students and one faculty member recently made presentations at a major international food aid meeting in Rome that have people in Washington and elsewhere in the world taking notice. (March 1, 2012)

Rare bacteria-to-animal gene transfer offers evolutionary advantage to coffee pest

A bacterial gene from a coffee pest's gut has evidently become a permanent part of the insect's genome, researchers have recently discovered.

Parasites may evolve to exploit gender differences in hosts

A Cornell postdoctoral researcher proposes that parasite evolution may be behind cases where certain disease-causing parasites favor one sex over the other in a host species.

Researchers discover what cancer cells need to travel

A new study at Cornell has identified two key proteins that cancer cells need to travel and have uncovered a pathway that treatments could block to keep cancer from spreading. (Feb. 21, 2012)

CU-ADVANCE reports success, but more work to do, in increasing women faculty in science and engineering

With the CU-ADVANCE Center's five-year grant period drawn to a close, its leaders point to the many ways its goals have been met, but also what more needs to be done.

Partnership to offer veterinarians online learning

A new partnership with Pfizer Animal Health and a university in Texas will offer veterinarians Web-based educational products utilizing the latest advances in educational technologies.

Senior wins 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship

A Cornell senior, Brittany Chao '12, has received a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, one of 40 selected out of 750 U.S. applicants. (Feb. 20, 2012)