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From the laboratory bench to the hospital bedside and from cultural evolution to concepts in sustainability, our researchers and scholars are translating discovery into meaningful, measurable impact that is changing the world for the better.

Research Around the University

Improving care of hospitalized patients with HIV in Tanzania

Improving care of hospitalized patients with HIV in Tanzania

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3D reflectors help boost data rate in wireless communications

3D reflectors help boost data rate in wireless communications

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Stand by your group: Loyalty can blur ethics line

Stand by your group: Loyalty can blur ethics line

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Higher bacterial counts detected in single-serving milks

Higher bacterial counts detected in single-serving milks

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Deciphering the male breast cancer genome

Deciphering the male breast cancer genome

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Higher NYS minimum wage would boost spending, create jobs

Higher NYS minimum wage would boost spending, create jobs

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microRNA predicts severe Crohn’s disease in children

microRNA predicts severe Crohn’s disease in children

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Linguistic clues can help detect mild cognitive impairment

Linguistic clues can help detect mild cognitive impairment

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Citizen scientists’ ‘glass eel’ data helps protect Hudson River

Citizen scientists’ ‘glass eel’ data helps protect Hudson River

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Filament formation enables cancer cells’ glutamine addiction

Filament formation enables cancer cells’ glutamine addiction

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Research, life-changing experiences, and community engagement are hallmarks of a Cornell undergraduate education.
“I think none of us anticipated that this would turn into anything more than a class paper, but we all felt that there was something there.”
Undergraduate Research
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Cornell graduate students develop and contribute to transformative research projects that connect with local communities and have global benefits.
“Knowing that what I'm doing will actually help decrease carbon emissions and contribute to mitigating the climate change impacts is very rewarding.”
Graduate Research
Erin E. Stache, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Cornell is training a next generation of solutions-oriented scholars and scientists to meet the urgent challenges facing our world today.
“Plastics like polyethylene and polypropylene are great materials; we use them for everything. But the problem is their strong properties, which make them so great for so many applications, also mean they don’t degrade…. We have to do something about that.”
Postdoctoral Research

Cornell Global Research Stories

Cornell research delivers results that matter all around the world.

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Australia

Male lyrebirds snare mates with ‘acoustic illusion’

Researchers discover that Australia’s superb lyrebird males imitate the panicked alarm calls of a mixed-species flock of birds while they are courting and even while mating with a female.

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Alaska

Historic Alaskan Tlingit 1804 battle fort site found

Cornell and National Park Service researchers have pinpointed the exact location of a Tlingit fort in Sitka, Alaska used in 1804 to defend against Russian colonization forces.

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Northern Asia

Hold still, big cat: Vaccination could save Siberian tigers

New research out of the College of Veterinary Medicine has revealed that vaccination of endangered Siberian tigers is the only practical strategy to protect these big cats from potentially deadly canine distemper virus.

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Europe

Study: European unions’ support varies for precarious workers

In many cases, unions in Europe have helped nonunionized workers whose jobs are precarious, according to new Cornell research.

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