Cornell researchers and colleagues analyzed a 1956 film of the largest woodpecker species that ever lived. Their findings are published in The Auk, and the cover illustration was painted by a grad student. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell Researchers have received three grants to reduce apple tree losses and enhance production efficiency among growers. Researchers hope to make future crops even more valuable by reducing tree and fruit losses and enhancing production efficiency.
Cornell is helping six New York state schools use high tunnels to grow their school gardens and studying how they benefit the schools' educational programs. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Your smartphone knows where you go and how fast, while its microphone hears your voice. Soon, your phone may use these capabilities to measure the stress in your life and help you deal with it. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Juan Hinestroza has helped develop transistors using natural cotton fibers, which could lead to smarter, highly functional clothing and perhaps even cotton-based circuits and computers. (Oct. 26, 2011)
In a campus talk, Professor Sabine Haenni described how gangster films of the 1930s critiqued capitalism and its modes of exclusion in the United States, and incorrectly portrayed America abroad. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have teamed up to offer a new shared doctoral program that will train the next generation of wildlife conservation scientists. (Oct. 26, 2011)