1+ week, 41+ min ago   (626+ words) Cornell University is leading a new $7.5 million national research effort aimed at developing robots that can handle some of the most labor-intensive jobs in fruit orchards, from pollination and thinning to harvesting and weed control. The four-year project, funded through…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (363+ words) Evolutionary cell biologist Edgar Medina Tovar will join Cornell University's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology this month to study how fungi evolved and how pathogenic species cause disease. Medina Tovar will begin as an assistant research professor before…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (145+ words) A Cornell University research team is working with farmers to design and evaluate experiments conducted on their own farms, an approach intended to make agricultural research more practical and collaborative. The Farmers DataLab is led by Louis Longchamps, an assistant…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (274+ words) Hobart and William Smith Colleges will use a planned gift of more than $4.5 million from the estate of Dr. Edward J. Tapper to permanently support summer science research for students. Tapper, a 1964 Hobart graduate and physician-researcher who recently died, left most…...