Lost frogs rediscovered with environmental DNA
<p> Scientists have detected signs of a frog listed extinct and not seen since 1968, using an innovative technique to locate declining and missing species in two regions of Brazil.</p>
Read more<p> Scientists have detected signs of a frog listed extinct and not seen since 1968, using an innovative technique to locate declining and missing species in two regions of Brazil.</p>
Read moreIn five years, a massive open online course (MOOC) on sharks developed by Cornell and the University of Queensland and offered through edX has wildly exceeded expectations.Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation has introduced more than 32,000 people from 182 countries to sharks, rays...
Read moreAs director and head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Corrie Moreau has numerous tasks on her to-do list, including one that could last her entire career: digitizing the collection’s 7 million specimens.Digitization is a national trend, supported by the National Science Foundatio...
Read moreThe three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
Read moreThe lack of previous examples of group fidelity in frogs may be simply because the behavior is hard to observe.
Read moreBenjamin Z. Houlton, director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment and professor of global environmental studies at the University of California, Davis, has been named the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Cornell Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff annou...
Read more<p dir="ltr"> <strong>Name and title:</strong></p><p dir="ltr"> Leslie S. Babonis, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology</p><p dir="ltr"> <strong>Academic focus:</strong></p><p dir="ltr"> Evolutionary development, the origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity</p><p dir="ltr"> <stron...
Read moreThrough an on-going partnership between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), four Cornell faculty members have received new grants for three regional sustainability projects with global implications.Funded through Cornell Atkinson’s Innovation for ...
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