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Walsh discovers passion for wildlife education

Maureen Walsh '13 discovered a passion for wildlife education during two summer zoo internships and a block in Israel studying migratory birds. Read More

Posted May 16, 2013

Six courses traveled to tropical field stations in February

Fifty-seven students joined their Cornell professors for courses in the Bahamas and Belize during block 6. Cornell courses have traveled to the Gerace Research Center in the Bahamas for years, and 2013 marked the third annual trip to a field station in Latin America. Read More

Posted Mar 26, 2013

Linked courses study wildlife conservation in Costa Rica

To fully understand efforts to protect sea turtles and other tropical animals, it's useful to visit a place like Costa Rica and meet the people involved. It's even more helpful to be guided by experts in both the fields of biology and psychology/sociology, as a group of Cornell students were in 2011. Read More

Posted May 29, 2012

Marty Condon to talk about flies from the Amazon to Iowa

Marty Condon, professor of biology, will talk about ”Flies and More Flies: Diversity From the Tropics to our Own Backyards” at the Science Interest Group lecture at 11:10 a.m. on March 22 in West Science. Condon will address why there are so many species of insects. Insects that feed on plants are model systems for studies [...] Read More

Posted Mar 09, 2012

“Eggs of the Living Dead Meet America’s Most Polluted Lake”

Dr. Nelson G. Hairston Jr., Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, will lecture on Oct 24th on effects of pollution and cleanup efforts on ecosystems. Onondaga Lake in New York is reputed to be the most polluted lake in North America because of chemical industry [...] Read More

Posted Oct 17, 2011

Latin Play lures Gallagher from environmental studies to classics

Classical Studies and Biology major Phil Gallagher discusses the transformative power of the extraordinary opportunities at Cornell. Read More

Posted Aug 10, 2011

Professor and student selected for UI program

Barbara Christie-Pope, professor of biology at Cornell College has been selected as one of six Fellows of the FUTURE in Biomedicine program at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Christie-Pope, together with Cornell undergraduate Federica Otalora-Roselli, will spend two months this summer engaged in an intensive research experience in the laboratory of Robert [...] Read More

Posted May 26, 2011

SIG lecture: Crop Improvement One Gene At a Time and Its Value in Biotechnology

Genome sequencing and other technologies are enabling scientists to acquire enormous data on plant traits, but there is still a need for understanding basic biology and gene function. This lecture will be presented on March 15th by Dennis Halterman ’94, assistant professor of plant pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read More

Posted Mar 08, 2011

Lecture: International Studies of Pre-term Birth

Jeff Murray will present on March 3rd on the challenges and rewards of studying the genetic and environmental causes of birth defects and pre-term birth. His presentation will emphasize how programs develop and the importance of international collaborations in addressing these major causes of infant death worldwide. Murray is a professor of neonatology and genetics, [...] Read More

Posted Feb 24, 2011

Curing Sickle Cell Disease

On Sep 28th, Jane Sande, M.D., will discuss the medical, social, and economic impact of sickle cell disease and curing the disease via bone marrow transplantation. Dr. Sande is medical director for The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Their sickle cell disease program is at [...] Read More

Posted Sep 21, 2010

Alum confirmed as chair of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission

Daryl J. Boness ’72 was confirmed last week as chair of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission. Boness, a retired scientist who spent most of his career at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., was profiled in the most recent edition of the Cornell Report. The commission provides independent oversight of the marine mammal conservation policies [...] Read More

Posted Jul 06, 2010

Students reflect on Operation Walk experiences

Since 2005, Cornell students have regularly joined Dr. Larry Dorr ’63 and other medical professionals on Operation Walk, a medical mission that performs hip and knee replacements in countries such as China, Peru, and Viet Nam. During the trips, students observe surgeries and assist with physical therapy and many other aspects of the project. The [...] Read More

Posted May 10, 2010

Students analyze H1N1 pandemic response in D.C.

In the spring of 2009, the H1N1 flu pandemic elicited an emergency response from health officials around the globe. Throughout the fall, nine Cornell students studied the outbreak from a variety of angles, including historic accounts of previous pandemics and scientific papers on the H1N1 virus, guided by Professor of Biology Barbara Christie-Pope. In February [...] Read More

Posted Mar 16, 2010

Rainforest studies reveal unexpected species diversity

Marty Condon’s path-breaking research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, has exposed extraordinary and surprising levels of species diversity in tropical plant/insect communities. With a 2010 $270,000 National Science Foundation grant in hand, Condon and her research team are poised to push their investigations even further. Condon and her [...] Read More

Posted Feb 05, 2010

Biology professor awarded $270,769 NSF grant

UPDATE: You can read Biology Professor Marty Condon’s monograph here. MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College Biology Professor Marty Condon has been awarded $270,769 from the National Science Foundation to continue her research uncovering extraordinary levels of tropical diversity. The research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, addresses a major [...] Read More

Posted Feb 03, 2010

Brachova awarded GRC Grant

MOUNT VERNON – Pavla Brachova was awarded a grant from the Gerace Research Centre (GRC) in San Salvador, Bahamas in order to isolate and study the genetics of fire coral this June. Brachova is a Cornell College senior who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in reproductive biology. She also recently represented Cornell at Iowa Private [...] Read More

Posted Mar 19, 2009

T. Edwin "Ed" Rogers 1917-2009

Thomas Edwin (“Ed”) Rogers, biology professor emeritus, died Saturday, January 3, 2009, in Iowa City. He was 91. To share comments and memories of T. Edwin “Ed” Rogers, visit his remembrance page. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Ed Rogers was born March 19, 1917, in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, the son of [...] Read More

Posted Jan 13, 2009

Cornell celebrates “Darwin 200”

MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work. All lectures are free and open to the public. Dr. Robert T. Pennock will kick [...] Read More

Posted Jan 07, 2009

Wilderness Field Station provides base camp for Boundary Waters courses

Since 1961, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota has provided Cornell students with a spectacular nature-based classroom. Academic departments ranging from biology to English to politics now take advantage of the field station during first block each year as part of the annual Cornell Wilderness Term. Each course embarks on a canoe journey into [...] Read More

Posted Jan 06, 2009

Zuccarelli works towards career in bilingual medicine

Britton Zuccarelli ’07 earned a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and plans to eventually practice bilingual medicine with a specialization in adolescent medicine, family practice or pediatrics. As an undergraduate she majored in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish, with a minor in chemistry. How was your first year of [...] Read More

Posted Sep 22, 2008