Cornell University researchers received grants to speed up development, evaluation and adoption of new apple rootstocks and build a $100 million East Coast broccoli industry through new cultivars.
On Dec. 15, science illustrator and artist Jane Kim completed the only known mural in the world with paintings that encompass all families of birds on one wall.
The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, visits campus Nov. 20-22. He will deliver a public lecture, “Iceland’s Clean Energy Economy – A Roadmap to Sustainability and Good Business,” Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium.
A research group in Spain has ranked Cornell the No. 5 university in the world for its Web presence, which includes electronic access to scientific publications and other academic material. (Feb. 7, 2011)
Scientists trying to decipher the microenvironment of living biological tissues now have a way of taking high-resolution, high-speed, three-dimensional images of their inner workings. (Dec. 17, 2012)
A person’s genes can shape the types of microbes that reside in the human gut independent of the environment a person lives in, according to a Cornell-led study.
Ling Qi, a researcher who studies the response of fat cells to stress and its relationship to obesity and type 2 diabetes, received a prestigious award from the American Diabetes Association. (Jan. 31, 2012)
Researchers have discovered that patches of waterlogged soil in forested watersheds act as hot spots of microbial activity that remove nitrogen from groundwater and return it to the atmosphere.
A scientific finding that demonstrates specific genes influencing the effect of dietary nutrition on immunity provides insights that may one day inform personalized medicine.