Support Arts & Sciences students on Giving Day March 12
The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!
Read moreThe College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!
Read moreOn topics ranging from oceanic disease to restraining invasive species from distant seas, Cornell faculty joined more than 10,000 scientists to discuss “Envisioning Tomorrow’s Earth” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Feb. 14-16 at the Washington State ...
Read moreIn a study published in September, a Cornell-led team of scientists revealed a decline of more than one in four birds in the United States and Canada since 1970 – a total of 3 billion birds gone.Given this staggering decline in North America’s avian population, there is no better time than now to he...
Read moreSoil scientists from Cornell and Rice University have dug around and found that although adding carbon organic matter to agricultural fields is usually advantageous, it may muddle the beneficial underground communication between legume plants and microorganisms.In a symbiotic relationship, microbes ...
Read moreA new collaboration between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) this year will fund three studies that could have significant ramifications in the face of intensifying climate change.The funded research will:assess state buyout programs of homes built on f...
Read moreRobert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, has been appointed to the new Climate Action Council, an exclusive 22-member group created to bring about New York state’s ambitious path to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions and promote green energy.The Clim...
Read moreDavid Pimentel, Ph.D. ‘51, professor emeritus of agricultural sciences, entomology and ecology, and an influential champion for the environment, died Dec. 8 in Ithaca. He was 94.Pimentel published more than 700 studies and 40 books, and was a pioneering voice calling for protection of the environmen...
Read moreFor one day only, you’ll be able to sprinkle chocolate-covered crickets over your bowl of Big Red Bear Tracks ice cream at the Cornell Dairy Bar in Stocking Hall.That one day is Oct. 19, when the Department of Entomology will host Insectapalooza – an annual extravaganza that aims to take the “creepy...
Read moreXiangtao Xu (徐湘涛 in Chinese), assistant professor, department of ecology and evolutionary biologyAcademic focus: Ecological modeling, vegetation-environment Interactions, plant functional ecology, plant hydraulics, ecological remote sensing, global change biologyPrevious positions: Post-doctoral Res...
Read moreCorrie Moreau is a professor in the Department of Entomology, the Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC) in the Department of Entomology. Her focus is on two major areas of research: using mole...
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