New lecture series honors EEB professor
The series will engage faculty and students from diverse disciplines to help foster the growth of the study of human evolution.
Read moreThe series will engage faculty and students from diverse disciplines to help foster the growth of the study of human evolution.
Read moreStudents, staff and faculty members who exceeded their job responsibilities to enhance the atmosphere for women at Cornell were recognized at the 20th Cook Awards luncheon March 12 in Warren Hall. Colleagues, family and academic leaders including deans, vice provosts, President Martha E. Pollack and...
Read more<p>Eight Arts & Sciences students spent winter break in Colombia, collaborating with Colombian undergraduate students from the University of Magdalena to teach students at a public school in the coastal city of Santa Marta. The students spent their time carrying out STEM enrichment projects in the s...
Read moreIn all, 70 faculty members will work on substantially changing the way they teach in more than 40 courses to over 4,500 students.
Read moreCornell’s Active Learning Initiative (ALI) will nearly double in scope and impact with a new round of funding for innovative projects to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning in nine departments.In the first universitywide ALI grant competition, about $5 million has been awarded in substantial...
Read moreThe combination of ocean warming and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America, according to research by Cornell University and the University of California, Davis, in Science Advances, Jan. 30.New resear...
Read more<p>Rhinoceroses are instantly recognizable by their rumpled gray skin, immense snouts and iconic horns, but not so much their voices.</p><p>That could change thanks to the efforts of Montana Stone ’19, who is working to document the vocalizations of Javan rhinos through a collaboration with the <a h...
Read moreMale birds-of-paradise are famous for their showmanship: wildly extravagant plumage, complex vocal arrangements and shape-shifting dance moves. They’ve starred in their own primetime TV documentary, been splashed across the pages of National Geographic magazine and amazed museum patrons. Russell A. ...
Read more<p>Renowned naturalist Wesley Newcomb scoured the Hawaiian Islands in the 1850s in search of living treasure: land snails and their intricate, domed shells. The specimens he assembled in Hawaii and around the world would form a vast collection of mollusks, with numerous species that would become cri...
Read moreA sharp decline in migratory bird populations has flummoxed ecologists trying to pinpoint the risks faced by these birds. New Cornell research points to a possible explanation for declines: the connection between aquatic insect prey and bird reproductive performance.Cornell ecologists found that aqu...
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