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June 29, 2026

The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to spark pioneering applied research to advance wildlife conservation solutions. The fund prioritizes initiatives that improve the health of free-ranging wildlife and/or solve environmental problems via a One Health lens.

June 29, 2026

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.  

June 25, 2026

A new study deepens the understanding of canine skull shapes, helping veterinarians distinguish problems from normal variation.

June 18, 2026

Heat stress on dairy cows not only decreases the amount of milk produced but also the fat and protein content, doubling the economic losses.

June 17, 2026

Thirteen Cornell students will spend the summer advancing new technologies for agriculture after receiving 2026 Research Innovation Fund awards from the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture. 

June 16, 2026

Andrew Flyak, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named a 2026 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

June 12, 2026

Patrick Webb will join Cornell as the inaugural executive director of the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

June 11, 2026

Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease spread.

June 11, 2026

Students from Buffalo's McKinley High School — home to one of the few high-school horticulture programs in New York state — visited Cornell May 19 to view the work of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS).

June 9, 2026

A new study offers genetic evidence and proof that farmed eastern oysters are adding to and breeding with wild eastern oyster populations in the western and central Long Island Sound. 

June 8, 2026

Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grants for faculty members in the life sciences aims to provide significant assistance for innovative, visionary research that opens an important new line of inquiry.

June 5, 2026

The 2026 joint symposium hosted by the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics and the Cornell Center for Immunology took play in May bringing together early-career researchers and Cornell faculty working across genetics, immunology, developmental biology and computational biology.