Research

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Cornell Research & Innovation

Extreme Talent. Radical Collaboration. Results That Matter.

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

Undergraduate Graduate Postdoctoral
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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

Radical Collaboration

Multidisciplinary Partnerships

The challenges of the world and the big picture of what’s possible rarely fit neatly into a single academic discipline. This is why we’ve made collaboration and communication a way of life at Cornell. We foster a community of renowned scholars that spans disciplines, locations, and industries in order to convert promising ideas and innovations into results that truly matter.

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Extreme Talent

The Best & Brightest Faculty

Talented researchers and top scholars know that teaching and learning are intrinsic to one another. That's why they come to Cornell. They know they can push the boundaries of discovery by engaging with students who, in turn, engage with and challenge them.

Research Examples

  • Research Support and Funding

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    Support for everything from proposal development to grant management—and all the administrative issues in between.

  • Centers and Institutes

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    More than 100 interdisciplinary research organizations bring students and faculty together to pursue research, teaching, and outreach.

  • Labs and Facilities

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    Millions of dollars of funding go into our labs every year. Hundreds of inventions, patents, licenses, copyrights, and plants emerge every year. Now we just need you.

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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