A fungal disease that afflicts amphibians has led to the greatest loss of biodiversity ever recorded due to a disease, according to a paper published in Science.
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 Cornell China Center has announced eight China Innovation Awards to interdisciplinary teams of Cornell faculty, aimed at jump-starting collaborative research and developing research teams.
Susan Henry, professor and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the New York State Agricultural Society. (Jan. 9, 2012)
A technology that generates electricity from the beating wings of birds, bats or even moths could produce enough power to run a device that collects data used by biologists.
Earlier this year, the Cornell University Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (CU-PDDC) used a new rapid test they developed to identify a small number of oak trees with oak wilt disease on Long Island.
The story of Project FeederWatch – a program where members track birds visiting their feeders – provides an example of how technology has helped citizen science grow bigger in unexpected ways.
A new study reveals that zinc deficiency – a condition that affects 25 percent of the world’s population, especially in the developing world – alters the makeup of bacteria found in the intestine.
Cornell and the Student Agencies Foundation have create eHub, slated to open in spring 2016, a 14,000 square foot entrepreneurship innovation center on College Avenue and in Kennedy Hall.