4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (936+ words) Doctoral student Sylvana Ross spent the summer leading the Cincinnati Urban Ecology Study to better understand the insects in the city’s green spaces. In manicured city parks and scrubby parking lot borders, insects reveal their secrets to doctoral student Sylvana…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (139+ words) Visitors learning about birds at Migration Celebration. Head on over to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to celebrate the annual phenomenon of bird migration—a marvel of nature now picking up steam for the fall. Migration Celebration is being held…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (517+ words) Spreading finely crushed basalt across farmland has been promoted as a relatively simple way to remove large quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But a new study led by Cornell researchers suggests the real-world potential of this method, known…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (341+ words) Gabriella Carini will be the new director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source starting Oct. 1. Gabriella Carini, associate laboratory director for discovery technologies at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been appointed director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (370+ words) In a new interactive map of New York City, researchers were able to identify 1.8 million trees, 1.4 million of which had never been surveyed. Researchers have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, with a new…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) A startup founded by a Cornell alum is using microneedle technology to create a pain-free tattoo experience – and working, with funding from the UK government, to expand the technology to medical applications. CipherX, founded by Ferdinand Kohle PhD ’18 and Karl-Anton…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (81+ words) Cornell Chronicle News directly from Cornell's colleges and centers The 2026 cohort of Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellows in Wildlife Health is poised to restore mangrove ecosystems in the Galápagos, improve chronic waste disease surveillance, and protect the pollinators that underpin…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (326+ words) A new tree grows in Brooklyn – but is it in the right place to optimize shade that protects residents from dangerous summer heat? A research partnership between Cornell Tech, New York City and New Yorkers for Parks aims to help…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (501+ words) James Lloyd, professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on July 15. James Lloyd, professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) who worked at the intersection of astronomy, instrumentation and spacecraft engineering to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (207+ words) The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to researchers whose work makes an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy-enhancing technology. The award comes with a $3,000 prize, which the research team donated to the organization’s…...