Faculty Spotlights
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease This is important because wildlife agencies often lack the financial and labor resources to...
Dr Laura Goodman has been fascinated by microbes, infectious disease, and “pathogens that affect both humans and animals” since her undergraduate days, when she became concerned with how diseases interact with climate change After studying zoonotic disease at...
From June to October of this year, Canadian wildfires spread to the United States’s midwest and northeast regions, decreasing air quality to unhealthy levels across New York State and Tompkins County In response to the deadly wildfires, Cornell researchers and...
It’s not hard to remember the period of the pandemic when everything from tomato cages to seeds were hard to find And now Cornell researchers are supporting that anecdotal evidence with data Katie Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and...
Twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year, with projects including researching economic and racial disparities in driver’s license suspensions, developing a seminar in...
To highlight how local partnerships improve Cornell, Ithaca and Tompkins County, the university presented the Cornell Town-Gown Awards – known as the TOGOs – to three student-community collaborations The 13th annual TOGOs were awarded Nov 4 at Ithaca High...
When wildfires draped heavy smoke over much of the state this summer, nearly half of all New York counties lacked real-time information to determine air quality Now, a Cornell researcher is leading an effort to install air-quality sensors in 28 upstate counties where...
Across Cornell, 56 research projects have received federal funding to explore topics that will support New York’s food supply, economy and well-being They include teaching young people financial literacy skills, assessing the economic opportunities for dairy...
In September 2020, an American black bear cub was treated in the Janet L Swanson Wildlife Hospital after being hit a car Six days later, the cub was sent to a rehabilitation center and then released to the wild This could have been the end of the story, except that...
The health and economic impacts from infectious disease emergence are substantial Pathogens that are transmitted, or spill over, between animals and people are the source of most emerging infectious diseases in humans Indeed, spillovers sparked five viral pandemics...
Dr Raina Plowright, the Rudolf J and Katharine L Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) This is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and...
