A daylong community reading of portions of “The Iliad,” Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War, is the next event in the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Arts Unplugged” series.
Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.
Brian Crane began as Director of the Weill Center for Cell and Molecular Biology on January 1, 2025. He is only the second Director in the History of the Weill Institute since its founding by inaugural Director Scott Emr in 2008.
The Great Backyard Bird Count, organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with Audubon and Birds Canada, is Feb. 14-17 and invites volunteers to watch birds and record what they see, enriching the Cornell Lab’s trove of data.
When bats lose access to their habitat and natural food sources, they seek food on agricultural lands - new research explains why, when their diets change, they shed more virus and infect more hosts, increasing the risk of outbreaks and pandemics.
Working toward more effective tuberculosis vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with “kill switches” that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an immune response.
Students, scientists and artists have joined forces to present a Cornell University Library exhibit designed to spread awareness about non-native plants and insects threatening ecosystems in New York state.
On January 10, 2025, The USDA honored Cornell University’s Breeding Insight through the USDA Honor Awards program, celebrating their contributions to providing all Americans with safe, nutritious food.