The Medical and Industrial Biotechnology Program, which graduated its first group of 10 students this year, has received a three-year, $700,000 NSF grant to grow the program. (June 23, 2010)
Less than a year after after publication, a technique - genotyping-by-sequencing - to analyze genetic information is taking off because the method is cheap and easy, and it generates terabytes of data. (March 19, 2012)
A new study finds that the mice who accompanied humans in their dispersal across Earth prove to be an ideal way to document human migration. (March 19, 2012)
Researchers and farm managers at Cornell orchards decided to let wild bees, rather than honeybees, pollinate Cornell's apples this year - a gamble that seems to have paid off.
Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, has received the National Medal of Science in chemistry, the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers. Entomologist May Berenbaum, Ph.D. '80, also received the National Medal of Science.
Cornell professors Harry Greene, Paul Sawyer, Robert Smith and Robert Thorne have been chosen for this year's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships, the Cornell Board of Trustees has announced. (Jan. 24, 2011)
Cornell researcher offers evidence of marine infectious diseases in coral, abalone and oysters, for example, and cases of forecasting and mitigation for those diseases.
Five landscape architecture graduate students spent the 2010-11 academic year designing a garden with plants capable of cleaning up hazardous waste sites. (Aug. 22, 2011)
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