Putnam was cited for high-throughput pharmaceutical formulation and development of novel biomaterials used for controlled release of therapeutic compounds and for prevention of post-operative seromas. (March 8, 2010)
The System of Rice Intensification, a method of growing rice that enhances crop yields and is resilient to climate change, won the international Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security.
A virtual reality project, co-created by an audio producer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, replaces the sounds of today's urban Manhattan with scientifically accurate audio representations of the island in 1609.
A new discovery finds that when plants detect pheromones given off by nematode worms, the chemical warning triggers defenses against bacterial, fungal and viral infection.
A new book, “The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making,” co-edited by faculty members Valerie Reyna and Vivian Zayas, discusses research on the neural roots of bad decisions.
A novel insecticide targets a specific gene in a pest, killing only that bug species on crops and avoiding collateral damage to beneficial insects caused by today’s pesticides.
Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine will open Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists, a referral and emergency care hospital, near the Belmont Racetrack in Elmont, N.Y., in April 2014.
Scientists have sequenced the house fly genome for the first time, revealing robust immune genes, as one might expect from an insect that thrives in pathogen-rich dung piles and garbage heaps.