CALS News
- Eisner shows butterfly's hind wings help evade predators
01.06.2009 
- Cornell research suggests that butterflies' hind wings help them evade predators, and their bright colors warn birds that chasing them isn't worth the energy.
- Gandhi grows in the grass in Mann Library lobby
12.23.2008 
- Cornell horticulture students created an indoors grass art installation of a larger-than-life portrait of Mohandas ('Mahatma') Gandhi in the Mann Library lobby during finals week.
- Dreaming of a white Christmas?
12.18.2008 
- Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center has released the odds of a white Christmas for cities in the Northeast. Pinkham Notch, N.H., tops the list with a 95 percent chance of having snow on the ground Dec. 25.
- Mann Library offers rare beekeeping volumes online
12.18.2008 
- Cornell's Mann Library has added the first 20 volumes of The American Bee Journal, the first English-language journal devoted to the beekeeping field, to its online library of historical beekeeping materials.
- Professor 'sings' like a bird to study bird song
12.18.2008 
- Professor Sandra Vehrencamp records bird songs and plays them back to birds to better understand exactly how birds use songs to communicate and convey information.
- Cornell students by day, entrepreneurs by night
12.18.2008 
- For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business.
- CU experts brief state officials on climate change
12.18.2008 
- Conservationists, policymakers and industry leaders were in Ithaca Dec. 8 to hear from Cornell experts on how climate change affects state ecosystems and how best to respond to a warming planet.
- Technique provides snapshot of all genes in human genome
12.16.2008 
- In the Dec. 19 issue of Science, Cornell researchers report on a new technique that takes a snapshot of all the locations on the human genome where RNA polymerases actively transcribe genes.
- Alumni survey: Entrepreneur courses shape attitudes
12.16.2008 
- A survey of alumni from the Cornell Entrepreneur Network found that taking even one entrepreneurship class made a graduate's attitude toward entrepreneurship much more positive.
- President issues year-end message to Cornell community
12.16.2008 
- With the university facing up to a 10 percent correction in its annual operating budget over the next few years, President David Skorton says that preserving core programs and student aid are key challenges.
- Cameroon project improves demographic research
12.15.2008 
- Cornell development sociologist Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue is working to improve Francophone African students' training in population science so they can help improve policies in their home countries.
- Cornell hosts its first Joint Japan/World Bank scholars
12.15.2008 
- This fall, Cornell welcomed a Pakistani bureaucrat and a Bhutanese agricultural official to campus through the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program.