A decade after its creation, the Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a $50 million gift that will expand and elevate it as the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.
A new study by scientists at Cornell and in Norway finds that UV-B light suppresses cucumber powdery mildew; less use of fungicides may result from the finding.
A new report calls for saving half of the 1.5 billion acres of North America's boreal forest – one of the world's last great forests – to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species.
Charles Aquadro, Laura Harrington and Sean Nicholson are recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
In testing for the University Waste Management Facility project, a system malfunction resulted in a discharge of wastewater into a sanitary sewer. The team is taking corrective actions. (Feb. 22, 2010)
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. About half of the department's doctoral alumni will return to campus Nov. 1.
With as much as 40 percent of the world’s potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near in the form of a rice gene.