The 26th annual Great Backyard Bird Count – in which bird and nature lovers around the world unite in an effort to tally as many species as possible over four days – begins Feb. 17 and runs through Feb. 20.
Pascal “Toni” Oltenacu, a professor emeritus of animal science who used mathematical modeling to predict disease, longevity and reproduction in dairy cattle, died Dec. 10, 2022 in Gainesville, Florida. He was 84.
After graduating with a degree in botany in 1890, Jane Eleanor Datcher taught chemistry at the first – and best – public high school in the U.S. for Black youth and helped organize regional and national networks for Black women.
Two new grants from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will support Weill Cornell Medicine’s pathbreaking research on the origins of lymphomas and on treatments that exploit these cancers’ biological vulnerabilities.
Since joining the NFL Players Association as its general counsel in 2010, Sean Sansiveri ’05 has been behind the NFL’s most important measures to make the game safer – including the protocol that helped save Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin’s life.
A new posthumous memoir by Isaac Kramnick, the renowned scholar of political thought and history who served on the Cornell faculty for 45 years, traces his life from birth into an unstable family and years in the child welfare system to his undergraduate days at Harvard University.
