Welcome! As part of its educational mission, SUNY Cortland supports and fosters research in order to advance knowledge and scholarship. When research activities involve human participants, ethical ...

The Faculty Development Center is accepting applications for the Small Grant Program. The Provost's Office, in collaboration with the Cortland College Foundation, provides funding for the program of ...

Fungi are neither plants nor animals. The kingdom fungi is one of the six kingdoms of life, along with plants, animals, protists, bacteria and archaea. Molds and yeasts are part of the kingdom fungi, ...

At SUNY Cortland, our Communication Disorders and Sciences program is designed to give you real-world, hands-on experience from the very start. As early as your first semester, you’ll have the chance ...

Symbiosis is from the Greek for “living together.” A symbiosis is any sort of persistent interaction between two species. Forms of symbiosis include parasitism, which involves a species living off a ...

Called the Barque of Pine Knot, this houseboat was built by William West Durant as a summer escape for his wife from the black flies. It is not known when the barque was built, but pictures of it ...

While some flowers are adapted to blooming early in the spring (see the Spring Wildflowers station), the flowers at this station tend to bloom later in the year. Late-blooming wildflowers tend to be ...

The beauty of the Adirondacks is now threatened by climate change (see the Climate Change station). However, this is not the first threat the Adirondacks have faced. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, ...

The Aquatic Life station discussed plants and animals that inhabit the water. Here, we focus on plants that live in wet areas, but not in the water. Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers from April to June. Its ...

In the spring, you will find many wildflowers blooming in this area. Wildflowers might adapt to bloom in the spring for various reasons. Some depend on the moist conditions brought on by snowmelt; ...

The angiosperms are the most recently derived plant group, originating some 160 million years ago and becoming widespread around 120 million years ago. Angiosperm means “enclosed seed,” referring to ...

The Nature Study Trail was dedicated to Dr. Eugene C. Waldbauer, professor emeritus of biological sciences, by the Cortland College Council in 1991. Dr. Waldbauer spearheaded work on the nature trail ...