Researchers show that the wallflower is an excellent model plant for discovering new cardenolides that could be used to treat heart disease and cancer.
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor in the astronomy department and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, will give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture at the American Astronomical Society virtual meeting.
The Partners of Citadel and Citadel Securities have made a $2 million gift to Weill Cornell Medicine to develop new approaches to protect people from COVID-19 and identify new cases of it.
The Genomic and Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative, operating under an $18.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working to develop new plant-breeding tools and genomic databases.
A research tracker created by Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication, has helped foster collaboration among social scientists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mathematical modeling by Weill Cornell Medicine is helping to guide New York state and New York City leaders as they make decisions that could affect the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Cornell researcher has created a tool to track the algorithms on Reddit, to inform people how the site is deciding which coronavirus-related posts to recommend to its hundreds of millions of users.
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility enables scientists and engineers from academia and industry to conduct micro- and nanoscale research with state-of-the-art technology and expertise from its technical staff. But perhaps the facility’s greatest breakthrough is helping launch startup companies in New York state.
Eric Rebillard, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classics, was one of 175 writers, artists, scholars and scientists named 2020 fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
