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June 23, 2017

In time, men may have a new way to prevent pregnancy, thanks to the innovative thinking of a Cornell geneticist Paula Cohen, professor of genetics in the College of Veterinary Medicine, has won a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to...

June 22, 2017

Last month, Ithaca’s first Farm to Plate Conference was launched as a collaboration between Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming and Cornell University’s Development Sociology Department to celebrate and discuss challenges around “uniting for a just...

June 22, 2017

We need nature – and nature needs us It’s a novel approach to wildlife conservation and the founding principle of a new initiative from the College of Veterinary Medicine Led by some of the world’s top wildlife health experts, Wildlife Health Cornell...

June 20, 2017

Faculty experts looked at current and historical migration and refugee issues from local, national and international perspectives, and the impacts for Cornell from potential immigration policy changes, at a forum June 10 in Statler Auditorium as part of Cornell...

June 19, 2017

Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has named eight social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) fellows for the 2017-18 academic year The fellows, who come from across the university, will add distinctive perspectives to the arena of sustainability...

June 19, 2017

In the shadow of Barbara McClintock’s historic campus shed, plots of foliage thicken in the university’s Climate Change Demonstration Garden Located at the Cornell Botanic Gardens, these raised beds provide a living illustration of how future temperature...

June 16, 2017

Global changes in climate, economies, transportation, and resource use, as well as environmental agents that propel infectious diseases across borders and species, profoundly challenge public health  From July 9 to 15, Cornell MPH faculty will be teaching at a...

June 16, 2017

By tagging a cell’s proteins with fluorescent beacons, Cornell researchers have found out how E coli bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics and other poisons Probably not good news for the bacteria When undesirable molecules show up, the bacterial...

June 15, 2017

For most of us, milk is our first food, containing everything a growing mammal needs Those nutritional benefits should be harnessed beyond infancy and into every stage of life, according to the Cornell Dairy Center of Excellence, which held its second annual...

June 13, 2017

June 13, 2017

Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte ’72 received in May the 2017 National Urban Extension Leadership Award for her work with Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City (CUCE-NYC) Davis-Manigaulte, a senior extension associate, leads Family and Youth...

June 13, 2017

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s Academic Venture Fund awarded $18 million in 2017, with a record 15 grants to seed novel approaches to some of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges Several Atkinson teams are exploring new ways to...