The Starr Foundation, chaired by Maurice R. Greenberg, has committed $6 million to the College of Veterinary Medicine. The gift will create two endowed professorships in clinical research.
A graduate student and two undergraduates spent the summer studying zooplankton species in Adirondack lakes to learn to determine whether they can live in different environments.
For freshwater environmental education projects and for helping save the American eel throughout the New York City region, Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources Institute, has won a U.S. EPA Environmental Quality Award.
Eight faculty members have received Stephen H. Weiss Awards for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.
Cornell researchers have discovered a process for how cells maintain the composition of proteins in their plasma membrane, the organelle that defines the outer surface of the cell. (Nov. 23, 2011)
The Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology (EEB) will celebrate its 50th year – and the university’s 150th – with a Sesquicentennial Colloquium series in the fall and spring semesters.
The 2014 State of the Birds Report – an assessment of the health of the nation’s birds by some of the country’s leading experts – was released Sept. 9.