Polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling When Geoffrey Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this question: What percentage of the 78 million tons of...
New tool gives apple farms hope in fight against spring freezes This February’s warm weather is nice in the Northeast, but apple farmers may pay a price if winter roars back To help growers assess precarious temperatures in turbulent springs, the Cornell Institute...
Biology students highlight community service projects Students shared their experiences performing community service in the Ithaca area as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology’s Biology Service Leaders (BSL) Showcase Feb 9 in Corson Mudd Hall The students...
Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments A new study, published Feb 6 in Nature Genetics, analyzed close to 4,500 maize varieties – called landraces – bred and grown by farmers from...
Sometimes, Dr Michael Berlin bumps into his patients in the supermarket It’s a perk of community medicine – or as he calls it, “old school medicine” – that attracted him to Ithaca’s Cayuga Medical Center (CMC), where he is a hospitalist The clinical...
Seagrass meadows – bountiful underwater gardens that nestle close to shore and are the most common coastal ecosystem on Earth – can reduce bacterial exposure for corals, other sea creatures and humans, according to new research published in Science Feb 16 “The...
At the request of Provost Michael Kotlikoff, the Cornell Senior Leaders Climate Action Group last fall submitted its report exploring the feasibility and costs of energy and heating options for the Ithaca campus to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 Here, Kotlikoff...
The Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program, funded by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), announced Jan 17 that six companies have been awarded funding during the 2017 spring semester to participate in...
In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that’s done nothing much really needs to change “That’s not only false, it’s a really dangerous way of thinking,” said Karen Pinkus,...
Kelly Cameron-Harp, a Cornell Animal Science graduate from the Class of 2015, went on to obtain a Master of Science in One Health from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine Dr Dan Brown’s course, “Feeding the World,” ignited her initial interest in One...
If cancer didn’t metastasize, or spread, it would be easy to cure, says Lewis Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine “We could merely cut it out, and it would not return,” he says “We would be...
