Research Matters

Identical twins Ashley and Verena Padres ’26 fell in love with the idea of space exploration and working together at an early age – now they employ and enjoy that spirit of curiosity and collaboration at Cornell.  

Cornell researchers are part of an $8.08 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through which they’ll assess and improve New York’s Double Up Food Bucks program, which is piloting the first Double Up online shopping option in the nation. The team will help the program expand to every county outside of New York City by 2027 and reach an estimated 200,000 SNAP recipients who do not currently have access to it.

Frank Rosenblatt '50, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior in Cornell’s Division of Biological Sciences, created a machine capable of learning and understanding its surroundings without human control in 1958, but he was 60 years ahead of his time. The field of artificial intelligence languished, and he died at the age of 43, decades before new AI pioneers finally built on his groundbreaking work.  

When hunting for mice, foxes are known to plunge headfirst into snow. It's their sharp noses that protect them from injury, according to a new study.

Victoria Campbell spends her free time caring for bats in need – setting tiny broken bones, feeding babies, treating illness and nursing native bats back to health so they can be released.
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Jesse Goldberg, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior and Robert R. Capranica Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, tells a story of how experiences with his own health have changed his research and his personal journey.
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 Heather Huson ’97, associate professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has a personal connection to dog sledding, having raced competitively for almost 25 years throughout North America. Now she studies how genetics shapes the traits – from physiology and speed to behavior and diet – that produce the ideal working canine, including detection and seeing-eye dogs.
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