Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.
The summer 2024 Colman Inclusive Leadership Program helped 33 doctoral students enhance their leadership skills through readings, interactive group activities, case studies and discussion through the three-day immersive experience.
A new FAO book highlights agricultural biotechnologies used to serve the needs of smallholders in developing countries and features a case study on Bt eggplant, the first bioengineered food crop approved in South Asia.
Hector Aguilar-Carreño and Marjolein van der Meulen join Natalie Bazarova, who was appointed to the role in 2023, to support research communities and core facilities, labs, institutes and centers that span colleges and campuses.
Bring your dog out for a fun run, hear from experts about the election and the future of democracy, and listen to the music of a 1914 alumnus who experimented with blending Chinese and Western musical traditions.
In emotional ceremonies attended by hundreds of people, life-size bronze statues of two 20th-century women whose legacies continue to improve people’s lives were unveiled Aug. 17 in downtown Ithaca.
Eating flours, burgers and fitness bars made from crickets, mealworms or black soldier fly larvae could help feed a growing global population sustainably, but it might hit resistance from those who follow halal or kosher regulations.
Tuskegee University has become the latest partner of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aimed at developing tools to communicate with plants and the associated organisms that make up their microbiomes.
Cornell University’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship, formerly known as the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative, enters its second year in 2023-24 with a new cohort of 15 business students and 12 researchers.
