Conference on cooperation, cheating, group decision-making yields insights

Understanding of honeybee interactions could have implications for why people act selfishly in a communal system, said Professor Kern Reeve, one of the presenters at the Oct. 16 conference. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Tuberculosis researcher gets boost from stimulus funds

Microbiologist David Russell was awarded more than $600,000 in federal stimulus funds as he races to better understand how the bacterium that causes tuberculosis survives inside human cells. (Oct. 15, 2009)

Why do human populations differ? Fruit fly study aims to provide genetic answers

Charles Aquadro, professor of molecular biology and genetics, researches how fruit flies provide clues to humans' own genetic footprints of adaptation. (Oct. 12, 2009)

NPR's 'Science Friday' taps Cornell ornithologists, veterinarians for live show

Ira Flatow broadcasted his show 'Science Friday' live Oct. 9 from Bailey Hall, interviewing Cornell ornithologists and veterinarians, among others. (Oct. 12, 2009)

Even if jail(ed) birds sing, can they really remember?

Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. (Oct. 9, 2009)

With Fleming fellowship, researcher will study roots of Legionnaires' disease

Duane Hoch, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell studying bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease, has received the 2009 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship from Cornell's Weill Institute. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Cornell alumnus Jack Szostak shares 2009 Nobel Prize

Jack Szostak, Ph.D. '77, has received the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for research that has implications for cancer and the biology of aging. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Five more faculty receive NSF early career awards, some with stimulus funding

Five more Cornell faculty members have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, some with federal stimulus funding. (Sept. 28, 2009)

Fertilizers may not help crops of poorest African farmers

Researchers have linked poverty in sub-Saharan Africa with poor soil health, but two new Cornell studies find that the recommended practice of applying more fertilizer may not help the poorest farmers. (Sept. 24, 2009)