Associate professor of English Ernesto Quiñonez discussed authors using similar themes and characters in "The Fingerprints of Influence," a talk in the Creative Writing Program's "In A Word" series.
Tanzania recently became a partner of the Cornell-affiliated Next Generation Cassava Breeding project, joining Nigeria and Uganda in the effort to improve cassava breeding in Africa.
Crop breeders in developing countries can access free tools to accelerate breeding crop varieties due to a collaboration among GOBII project at Cornell, the Boyce Thompson Institute and others.
Active, immersive, hands-on, experiential learning is one of the best ways to recruit and retain students in STEM fields, and Cornell's Shoals Marine Laboratory has been doing it for 50 years.
Jason L. Cole, vice president of federal government relations at MetLife in Washington, D.C., has been named Cornell’s associate vice president for university relations and will begin his new position Jan. 1, 2017.
Two Cornell ILR School alumni and a current ILR student are among 129 people named Schwarzman scholars, the scholarship program announced Dec. 1 in Beijing and New York City.
Events this week include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, NASA's Dava Newman on plans to explore Mars, dance at the Schwartz Center, a Student Sustainability Summit and ways to survive study break.
Scientists at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health mimiced the way sperm tail enzymes are attached to a solid support in an attempt to achieve the same efficiency on small man-made devices.
Endangered leatherback sea turtles are known for their open-ocean migratory nature and nomadic foraging habits – traveling thousands of miles. But along the Mozambique coast, sometimes they stay in place.
