James Larison ’70, PhD ’01, Reflects on his Career as a Nature Filmmaker
In a new memoir, the NatGeo veteran recalls globe-trotting adventures—and warns of climate change.
Read moreIn a new memoir, the NatGeo veteran recalls globe-trotting adventures—and warns of climate change.
Read moreBirds have feathers, mammals hair, and angiosperms flowers. Across the diversity of life, many morphological traits are unique to a particular category of organism. How do these unique traits first arise?Most biologists agree that new morphological traits do not come from entirely new genes. Instead...
Read moreA new ant species collected in New Mexico has been named Strumigenys moreauviae, after CALS faculty member Corrie Moreau, the Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity and director of the Cornell University Insect Collection.The species was named after Moreau by...
Read moreArts and Sciences doctoral students David Esparza and Anna Whittemore are among 44 Cornell graduate students selected as new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows.
Read moreThe program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
Read moreIan Owens, Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology; professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyAcademic focus: Large-scale patterns in biodiversity and conservationResearch summary: I study the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that drive differences between spe...
Read moreThe history books say the Azores were discovered by Portuguese explorers in 1427. But mouse DNA and lake sediment suggest that the mid-Atlantic archipelago was actually discovered as much as 700 years earlier, by Vikings. In 2015 Jeremy Searle, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and two ...
Read moreWhen it comes to reducing the impact of climate change, humanity appears caught between a rock and a hard place.But, in this case, the rock may offer a surprisingly softer landing.The rocky surface of our planet’s geology may provide a buffered bumper to absorb excess carbon – that is, if society wa...
Read moreWhen an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals that survived, according to a new study.Arboreal species were especially at r...
Read moreThe Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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