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)
Food scientist Martin Wiedmann is collaborating with 3M to test a new molecular diagnostic system that could cut pathogen detection times from 72 hours to just 18 hours.
Space travel, illnesses like COVID-19 and climbing Mount Everest can trigger the body’s stress response systems in similar ways, according to new studies by Weill Cornell Medicine, space agencies and other investigators.
Two negatives – cow manure and flies – can make a positive. Cornell animal scientists, entomologists and a business professor will examine the environmental impact and commercial potential of quickly processing dairy cow manure with fly larvae. And then using the dried larvae to feed other farm animals.
Using a combination of DNA sequencing and computer science techniques, researchers have developed a new method for monitoring the health of organ transplant patients.
From apples and corn to onion jellies and solar smoothies, thousands of visitors to the 78th annual Empire Farm Days got a taste of Cornell's contributions to the agricultural community. (Aug. 17, 2011)
The new Cornell Estimated Breeding Value website can now provide the public with information on a dog breed's propensity for a hip and elbow dysplasia (malformation).
This spring, senior music lecturer Annie Lewandowski worked with Google Creative Lab on a project to develop artificial intelligence that can recognize patterns in humpback whale songs.
Mike Hoffmann, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, delivered his keynote address at the President's Sustainable Campus Committee's inaugural summit on Nov. 17. (Nov. 21, 2011)