Cornell researchers set out to understand environmental and cellular triggers that lead to sudden, devastating algal growth and to interrupt cellular communication that causes algae to flourish.
Horticulture professor Phillip Griffiths is working to fight black rot in the sukuma wiki, a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, by cross-breeding with similar plants that resist rot.
Nine Cornell doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in April at the Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.
Soumitra Dutta, dean of Johnson and co-author of Global Information Technology Report, calls for greater urgency in bringing the benefits of information technology to more global economies and citizens.
Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the recipient of the 2014 Coblentz Award, presented annually to an outstanding molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40 by the Coblentz Society.
A new paper from Cornell psychology professor Morten Christiansen argues language processing, acquisition and evolution, as well as the structure of language itself, are profoundly shaped by fundamental limitations on sensory and cognitive memory.
If you’re dreaming of a white Thanksgiving, dream on. For winter-hardened places like Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit, the chance of measurable snow on the ground for Thanksgiving is practically nil.
Twenty pairs of Cornell students and high school students are working together as part of a new Young Researchers Program of the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board.
To demonstrate that by using creativity all employees can participate in Cornell's opportunities, Angela Winfield, director of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, scaled the wall at the new Lindseth Climbing Center.