William Boyle ’55, MBA ’56, has given a significant gift to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to support renovations to the Plant Science Building.
LakeEffect, the first winter malting barley released by the Cornell Small Grains Breeding Program, produces high yields, is disease resistant and has a good malting profile, researchers in the School of Integrative Plant Science said.
A series of studies by Cornell researchers is testing how crops might grow when planted between rows of solar panels on a solar farm in New York state.
The winning proposal by Fernandez-Ruiz and his teammates was titled “Understanding the Neural Basis of Natural Behavior with Individualized artificial neural networks.”
The Cornell Maple Program is growing 18 species of perennial fruit- and nut-bearing plants within a maple sugarbush forest. They want to help maple producers be more resilient to economic challenges and extreme weather events, and offer unique products like maple-elderberry wine and maple-hazelnut spreads.
A new study provides an example of asymmetry, a pattern found throughout biology where a pair of organs or appendages that mirror each other have different proportions and may have different functions.
Cornell researchers have identified an antibiotic, rifampin, that is 99.9% effective against Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever.
Beth Ryan, a graduate student in chemistry and chemical biology working in the Baskin Lab at Cornell’s Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has been selected as a Young Scientist to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry, to be held June 2025 in Lindau, Germany.