Message from the Associate Vice Provost for Research

In the past decade, a campus-wide recruitment effort brought a new generation of life scientists to Cornell. These new recruits are using recently discovered technologies to answer fundamental questions about organisms and their response to environmental challenges.

—Andrew H. Bass, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Cornell University

Our Vision

At Cornell, a collaborative culture encourages life scientists to connect across the disciplines—computer science, physics, engineering, biology, and chemistry—to research, discover, and share their solutions with the world.

Our Progress

In the past decade, the life sciences at Cornell have flourished. With 77 new faculty members, three new facilities—Duffield Hall, the Physical Sciences building, and Weill Hall—life scientists continue to define the future of interdisciplinary research at Cornell.

On and between the university’s campuses, these scientists’ collaborative efforts demonstrate Cornell’s growing involvement in global environmental and health challenges. They have:

• Created new technologies for non-invasive imaging of biological events associated with tissue injury and repair
• Designed computationally intensive analytical methods to interpret an ever-expanding genomic library
• Found new approaches in geriatric psychiatry and medicine to help an aging human population
• Discovered nutritional supplements and biofuels that will propel the world into the future, and more

During a burgeoning era for the life sciences, we seek to continue the momentum we have gained in generating discoveries and applications as a result of leveraging tremendous breadth and depth across our university.

Our Priorities

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, the College of Human Ecology, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the College of Veterinary Medicine aim to raise more than $30 million by 2015. Across the units, support for the life sciences will benefit faculty renewal and recruitment, research, graduate fellowships, and facilities—ensuring the continued strength of the life sciences at Cornell.