The second International Conference on Global Food Security held Oct. 11-14 at Cornell confronts elements of human welfare and environmental concerns connected with feeding billions more people.
Students reported a heightened sense of inclusion in the classroom and higher confidence in discussing the topics they learned in an active learning evolutionary biology class.
Steven Osofsky, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, comments on U.S. Department of the Interior's new interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The provost has named the leaders of faculty committees that will help implement a new public policy school and superdepartments in economics, psychology and sociology.
David Robertshaw, professor emeritus of physiology and an expert on water metabolism and temperature regulation in desert-adapted mammals, died Nov. 8 in Ithaca. He was 85.
Researchers at the Baker Institute for Animal Health have identified a new mechanism that plays a role in controlling how the herpes virus alternates between dormant and active stages of infection.
Chris Fromme '99, an associate professor in the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has received a Guggenheim fellowship.
Kate Supron has begun a joint position at Engaged Cornell and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) designed to increase opportunities for community-engaged research, learning, and service projects.
An ambitious project that deploys big data and uses machine learning to understand the ecological impacts of hydropower dams in the Amazon Basin started in a mundane enough setting: on the sidelines at youth baseball games.