The Adam and Rachel Broder Fund for Cancer Research, which provides seed funding for scientists, is available to any Cornell faculty member. They are administered by the College of Veterinary Medicine, which has a long history of translational cancer research.
More than 100 students presented their work on a wide array of projects aimed at improving access to public health everywhere from Tompkins County to Tanzania, as part of the 2022 Global and Public Health Experiential Learning Symposium, held Nov. 11 in Cornell’s Physical Sciences Building.
Doctoral candidate Ayress Grinage and Barbara McClintock Professor of Plant Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Chelsea Specht were selected as recipients of the 2022 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Graduate Fellowships for Advanced Study.
The Graduate school welcomed over 80 new Dean’s Scholars into the community of over 370 current Dean’s Scholars at Cornell. The Dean’s Scholars program honors recipients of competitive, diversity-focused fellowships.
An award-winning Argentine author, an agro-sustainability innovator, a renowned archaeologist and a leading sociolinguist are set to visit campus this spring as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
By the end of this century, Cornell’s Flavio Lehner and others said that megadroughts – extended drought events that can last two decades – will be more severe and longer in the western U.S. than they are today.
Cornell professor Robert Howarth advised New York state senators last week to downsize the state’s natural gas pipeline system and to repeal laws that easily connect gas to new homes.
Cornell AgriTech is leading a multidisciplinary research project to increase the sustainability of the organic dry bean industry in the Northeast and upper Midwest by overcoming production challenges while developing improved management practices that build soil health and resilience to climate change.
Sonnet Kekilia Coggins, executive director of the Merwin Conservancy, will explore the life and legacy of W.S. Merwin in the Torrence Harder Lecture, “What is a Garden? W.S. Merwin’s Life in Poems, Palms, and Place,” Sept. 13 in Call Auditorium.
As consumers want fewer food preservatives and less plastic waste, Cornell scientists have created a bioderived polymer that helps salad dressings and beverages last longer in the fridge.