On April 9, three student teams combined Cajun cooking and chemistry in a national competition as part of the American Chemical Society’s New Orleans conference, which was themed “The Chemistry of Food and Energy.”

The Institute of Food Technologist Student Association Product Development team  has created a new food product - Squashetti - for the national competition this summer.

According to Prof. Bryan Danforth, entomology, the population of bees in North America – specifically the domesticated honey bee – has been declining since at least 1950 because of Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon where large numbers of worker bees in a hive disappear suddenly. 

According to Prof. Susheng Gan, horticulture, it is possible to extend the freshness of leaves through the discovery of the genes that trigger tissue aging.

Klondike is a Beagle-Laborador Retriever mix that was flash-frozen and transplanted into a surrogate mother. This successful procedure could impact canine conservation efforts.

Prof. Tamar Kushnir, human development, studies the emergence of knowledge in young children in the Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory.

Prof. Marcia Eames-Sheavly, horticulture, aims to use interaction with plants to help students engage with their artistic side.

Prof. Amy McCune, evolutionary biology and ecology, Sarah Longo ’11 and Mark Riccio, director of Cornell’s Multiscale Computed Tomography Facility, have uncovered proof that lungs and fish gas bladders are evolutionarily linked. 

Heather Delanty ’14 and Shira Ellenson ’14 spent a week in Yungaburra, Queensland, conducting a population density research study on platypus.

Postdoctoral research associate Thomas Slewinski found a gene that is currently repressed in most plant leaves that has the potential to grow crops 50 percent more efficiently in dry climates.