
From Hornet pride to wasp wisdom
Abi Zuber, graduate student of the department of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University, helps us explore why we should do research on bugs.
Read moreThe Cornell Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB), established in 1964, was one of the founding units of the Division of Biological Sciences at Cornell and one of the first programs in the United States to merge neurobiology with the study of animal behavior, making it a pioneering interdisciplinary initiative. As a result, Cornell is recognized as a key birthplace of Neuroethology, the field that studies behavior and neurobiology in a comparative and evolutionary context. The combination of neurobiology and behavior was a bold and innovative idea at the time, driven by the belief that the interface between these disciplines held tremendous research and intellectual potential. This vision has since been realized and emulated by other institutions.
Nationally, the program is renowned for its groundbreaking research in several areas: sensory detection and central nervous system coding of animal communication signals; sensory guidance and orientation through these cues; the generation of motor patterns that govern both simple behaviors like feeding and more complex ones like communication, as well as their modification by neuromodulators and hormones.
Looking ahead, the department is committed to expanding its interdisciplinary focus to encompass emerging areas of study, such as genome biology and computational neuroscience, ensuring the continued growth and leadership of NBB for many decades to come.
Alumni and Faculty have teamed up to establish an endowment that will have a lasting impact on graduate student research in Neurobiology and Behavior. This endowment generates funds devoted exclusively to supporting our in-house program of Research Grants for graduate students, and we need your help to grow it.
Abi Zuber, graduate student of the department of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University, helps us explore why we should do research on bugs.
Read moreThe professorships are made possible because of gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
Read moreA new $1.5 million gift from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has established the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics to fund graduate research at the Lab of Ornithology.
Read moreRobert A. Raguso, Professor in the neurobiology & behavior department has been selected to win the 2024-25 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
Read moreAwardees were recognized for the significant impacts they have made to advance access, engagement and belonging through their service and leadership.
Read moreThis month’s featured titles – most by A&S authors – include a work of nonfiction about honeybees, a kids’ picture book, and a novel set in rural Nova Scotia.
Read more“This project sits at the cross-roads of neuroscience, ethology and artificial intelligence."
Read moreLuck can change life later on. “We wanted to know,” Matthew Zipple, a Postdoctoral Associate in the Sheehan Lab in the neurobiology and behavior department at Cornell University told NPR, “if we create a society where everyone starts out with the same genetics, has access to the same resources in th...
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