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The awards recognize the excellence represented within the graduate community and celebrates students for their accomplishments.
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“Almost everyone has enjoyed being back in person and having that sense of community, but Zoom and other technologies are still powerful tools in our arsenal.”
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"There are over 3,000 different species of mosquitoes in total, but only a few mosquitoes specialize in biting humans," said Zhilei Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University as quoted in this article in LIVESCIENCE. To read the full article: LIVESCIENCE. Zhilei's study can be found in Nature, May 4, 2022...
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The Department annually nominates one of its graduate students to receive an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in recognition of superior teaching performance. Andrea Roeser has won this year for BioNB 2220 Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience, BioNB 4910 Principles of...
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We are proud to announce that Caitlin Miller has been awarded the 2022 Social Justice Award from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement. Caitlin has been a strong leader in DEI efforts in our department, and played a key role in our successful Diversity Preview Weekends last year. She was also one of the most important...
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Caitlin Miller of Neurobiology and Behavior has won The Russell Distinguished Teaching Award. The Russell Distinguished Teaching Award is intended for professorial faculty, lecturers, senior lecturers and teaching assistants who have demonstrated their devotion to teaching, where teaching is understood to include classroom presence, preparation...
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Klarman Fellow and animal behavior researcher Matthew Zipple started the podcast to share the vast array of animal behaviors.
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Katherine Collins wrote the book, “The Nature of Investing, Resilient Investment Strategies through Biomimicry.” She believes investing is both art and science. The author of the article, R.J. Shook is quoted "Watching honeybees teaches us how to be better investors, Collins writes in her book. She credits the work of Cornell University honeybee...
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Ron Hoy, Dr. David and Dorothy Joslovitz Merksamer Professor of Biological Science; Professor Emeritus from Cornell University is doing a study on Orb spiders with Ron Miles, a Mechanical Engineering faculty member at Binghamton University. It is possible that research from this study could someday be used in designing sensitive bio-inspired...
/news/spiders-use-webs-extend-their-hearing-studyFrancois Brunelle, a photographer creates portraits of people who look like, often called Dopplegangers. Mike Sheehan, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Assistant Professor from Cornell University explains why they are a matter of genetics and neuroscience. To read the entire article: GIZMODO.
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