Viruses are well known for making people sick, but a new study provides evidence for the first time of viral infections in tiny marine crustaceans called copepods.
More than 550 Cornell alumni and students have come together in 33 cities in North America for Cornell Cares Day events over winter break to volunteer in hometown communities.
Cornell and five other universities have partnered with The Nature Conservancy to establish the NatureNet Science Fellows Program, intended to develop a new breed of interdisciplinary scientists.
Events on campus this week include A.T. Miller opening the winter Soup and Hope series, the third annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence conference, and a Recognition Event Day for staff.
A $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will fund a Cornell pilot program of seminars in architecture, urbanism and the humanities. Six semesters of seminars will begin in spring 2014.
A new Cornell minor tackles climate change through interdisciplinary study of the basic physical, ecological and social science of the planetary crisis.
A new study unravels how cells rapidly stall protein synthesis during stress and then resume their protein-making activities once the stress has passed.
