The Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which attracts some of the world’s best young talent to Cornell, has chosen eight new fellows.
As Cornell's 2016-17 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Jed Sparks, who directs the Cornell Isotope Laboratory, will develop a handbook for field teaching this year.
Edward Buckler, a Cornell and U.S. Department of Agriculture research geneticist, was elected a new member of the National Academy of Sciences April 29.
Ray J. Wu, the late Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, won posthumously the 2013 Ezra Technology Innovator Award. It was presented Oct. 24.
Andrew G. Clark, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Assistant professors Ilana Brito, Iwijn de Vlaminck and Michael Sheehan have all been awarded National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Awards, worth $1.5 million to help fund five years of research.
The Merlin Bird Photo ID mobile app has been launched and, thanks to machine-learning technology, can identify hundreds of North American species it “sees” in photos.