One Health
Dr Michael Satlin’s patients aren’t just battling cancer Many are also fighting drug-resistant bacteria – “superbugs” that threaten their fragile immune systems, and their lives “They can die within hours or days of infection if they’re not properly...
Managing mosquito-borne viruses, such as West Nile, Dengue, Zika and tick-borne Lyme disease have been a challenge due to lack of resources, knowledge and trained expertise To better understand, prevent and treat diseases passed from insects to people, the...
Two doctors – Lewis C Cantley, MS ’73, PhD ’75, and Kristy Richards ’90, PhD, MD – are growing radically collaborative research connections between Weill Cornell Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine, adding new discoveries to the university’s...
Cornell’s Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team (SMART) was recognized for its impact on poor communities by earning the LA Potts Success Story award on Dec 5 at the Professional Agricultural Workers Conference Edward Mabaya, director of the SMART...
Cornell University is currently accepting applications to our Master of Public Health program, a trans-disciplinary degree program for future leaders in public and global health Our first round of admissions review will take place late January 2017, with applicants...
Tanzania recently became a partner of the Cornell-based Next Generation Cassava Breeding project (NextGen), joining Nigeria and Uganda in the global effort to improve cassava breeding in Africa This partnership is expected to enhance the project’s efforts to...
Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on October 4, 2016 and has acted as a deadly catalyst upon the country’s worsening cholera epidemic The outbreak began in 2010 after the catastrophic earthquake, when contaminated waste from a United Nations peacekeeping base entered a...
Cornell researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that helps convert nitrogen-based fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas The paper was published online Nov 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “The first...
By Steve Osofsky and the Planetary Health Alliance “Planetary health is the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends” – Report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health By most...
Nobody flew the coop at the packed Nov 15 Science Cabaret that featured Jarra Jagne, DVM ’90, a senior extension associate at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, and Marlie Lukach ’20, talking chicken Jagne and Lukach offered technical details on the...
In a presentation to global leaders battling issues of climate change and feeding a burgeoning world population, Dawit Solomon, Cornell senior research associate in crop and soil science, explained food security solutions – such as adding biochar to poor...
