Cornell has developed the first variety of spring malting barley designed to succeed in New York’s wet climate and support the state’s $5 billion craft beer industry. All it needs now is a name.
Moshood Agba Bakare, a Ph.D. student in the field of plant breeding and genetics, has been awarded the Africa Fund Fellowship for graduate work focused on cassava breeding in sub-Saharan Africa.
Anurag Agrawal, professor of environmental studies, and Maureen Hanson, professor of molecular biology and genetics, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy has announced.
A talk by Brig. Gen. Joseph Biehler, “The Role of the Military in Supporting State Crises,” will highlight campus events in observance of Veterans Day, on Nov. 11.
New Cornell-led research suggests that starfish, victims of sea star wasting disease, may actually be in respiratory distress, as nearby organic matter and warming oceans rob them of their “breath.”
A new grant will investigate how bacteria that live inside the cells of fungi may shape the biology, evolution, biodiversity and function of these fungi – research with important practical applications for industry, sustainable agriculture and preventing food spoilage.
Mildred Warner has received the ACSP Margarita McCoy Faculty Award for the advancement of women in planning in higher education through service, teaching and research.
Cornell-led scientists aim to resolve a wasting disease afflicting seagrass – the ocean’s critical first line of coastal filters – with a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant.
The CDC confirmed a new Delta subtype – ‘AY.4.2.’ – has been identified for the first time in the United States after increasing frequency in the U.K. Health officials say it is still very rare.
Barton, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1951, served as the ninth director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva – now known as Cornell AgriTech – from 1960 until his retirement in 1982.
