Imagine it’s a fall day at your local pumpkin patch or corn maze. Have you ever thought about the tapestry of beautiful and varied colors of kernels on a cob of corn, and how those colors come to be?

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In a powerful show of unity and civic engagement, over 500 scientists across the country are taking to their local newspapers the week of June 16 to champion the value of publicly ...

Autistic trailblazing female pioneer broke boundaries with her maize DNA research, eventually earning a Nobel prize and changing the understanding of DNA. Barbara kept at her corn DNA research until ...

Cornell announced the names of three new North Campus residence halls that will soon welcome students as part of the North Campus Residential Expansion — named for notable alumni including Nobel Prize ...

LA JOLLA (October 10, 2025)—Joseph Ecker, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies from the Maize Genetics Cooperation, a global organization of ...

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