Severe COVID-19 can alter long-term immune response

Severe COVID-19 infection triggers changes that affect gene expression in immune system stem cells, causing alterations in the body’s immune response, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and Jackson Laboratory investigators.

Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying the formation of the Earth’s crust and wearable technology for daily-life applications are among those at Cornell who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

As city heat rises, bird diversity declines

Heat-retaining buildings and paved surfaces are directly related to a loss in bird diversity, according to a study by scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Zhejiang University in China.

Students head across globe thanks to Summer Experience Grant funding

Summer Experience Grants in the College of Arts & Sciences helped 139 students to take minimally-paid or unpaid summer positions this year. 

Around Cornell

Hudson Valley Research Lab celebrates its 100th

Local farmers and growers, Cornell officials and others observed the 100th anniversary of the Hudson Valley Research Laboratory, part of Cornell AgriTech, in a celebratory event Aug. 18 in Highland, New York.

National Mall installation invites public to ‘let freedom ring’

An interactive bell tower designed by Paul Ramírez Jonas is one of six artworks featured in “Beyond Granite: Pulling Together,” which aims to create a more inclusive commemorative landscape on the mall.

Technique shows how abnormal RNA splicing leads to disease

A technique that enables scientists to record gene mutations and patterns of gene activity in individual cells has been extended to cover RNA splicing as well, in a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

‘Trashbots’ help Brooklynites clean up, connect

Cornell Tech researchers deployed “trashbots” in Brooklyn for two weeks in July. The goal of the experiment was to see how people interact with, and make sense of, service robots in public spaces. The cleaning was an added bonus.

Fowell awarded NIH grant to study T cell behavior

Deborah Fowell, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a five-year, $2.32 million MERIT award from the NIH to study the factors that help guide immune cells.