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Laidlaw Scholars undergraduate program comes to Cornell

Cornell students who are passionate about changing the world can now join an international network of like-minded emerging leaders as Laidlaw Scholars, in the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. The global program – supported...

  • International Programs
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Psychological ownership improves care of public parks, lakes
One type of kayaker turned out to be five times more likely than another to pick up a stray flip flop or water bottle – items researchers had planted so each person would pass one regardless of their route. What was the difference? Before they...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Behavior
  • Environment
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Cornell donates 37 tons of produce to fight food insecurity
When new safety protocols forced Antonio DiTommaso, professor and chair of the Soil and Crop Sciences Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science, to downsize his field trials this spring, he was left with 1,800 surplus cabbage seedlings...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Innovative modeling reveals nature of soft, squishy solids
This is especially challenging when the materials become deformed along their points of contact, potentially changing their basic surface properties. Engineers can probe these properties for solid materials by simply depositing a liquid drop on...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Wilkerson: US must reckon with ‘long shadow’ of caste system
America is like an old house built on beautiful but unstable land, journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson said to open the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’ (CCSS) annual Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences, Oct. 21. We didn’t build...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Cornell social scientists win national acclaim for rural population research
Cornell University is part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institution research team that earned the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the United States Department of...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Community Flood Watch Project engages residents in reporting and mitigation
Residents of Jamaica Bay, coastal neighborhoods located in Brooklyn (Kings County) and Queens (Queens County), are experiencing tidal flooding at increasing frequency—as often as twice a month. Tidal flooding is also called sunny-day flooding...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Environment
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Project to optimize food plant worker safety, product supply
A Cornell-led project will use computer modeling and outreach to find optimal strategies to minimize COVID-19 cases and transmission among workers in food processing facilities, while maintaining the best possible production. Researchers will...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
  • Food

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Bevy of incubators and resources bolster startup culture

In addition to the McGovern and Praxis centers, the Weill Cornell Medicine BioVenture eLab and the Cornell Tech Runway Startup Postdocs program, there are: student-focused competitive programs like the Cornell eLab, which is run as an actual...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food
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Cornell CALS releases new white paper focusing on 2020 NYS food and farm COVID-19 effects
In this series of nine discussion papers, Cornell CALS experts seek to provide perspectives and insights on the impact of COVID-19 to selected agricultural sectors. Their goals are to assist in bringing a greater understanding of the effects of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
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Study charts how orchards can leverage mechanical thinning and pruning without spreading fire blight
New findings from the lab of Kerik Cox, associate professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, indicate that there may be hope for producers vying to use these technologies. Published by the American Phytopathological Society in...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Silver linings: Innovation, kits, tech animate a hybrid semester
She needed alcohol to preserve the soft-bodied insects she’d collected near her home in Missouri, for her entomology class at Cornell. But it wasn’t included in her box of supplies, because alcohol is too flammable to ship. Her local drug store...
  • Entomology
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Dairy farm manure cover and flare off systems reduce odors and methane
Thanks to Climate Resilient Farming grant funding from the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets, New York Farmers are implementing innovative manure management techniques for environmental stewardship, farm viability, and the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
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Using microbes, scientists aim to extract rare-earth elements
Most of the world’s rare-earth elements – there are 17 on the periodic table – have been mined in China for the past quarter-century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But the mining and finishing processes there create toxic waste and...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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CCE helps Buffalo get school food truck rolling
With a splashy paint scheme designed by a local artist, the “Farm to School to You” food truck – developed with input from Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) – will visit sites throughout the city to bring free meals to families in need...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition

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Summer interns discuss storytelling project in CCE podcast

When the pandemic nixed the in-person component of their 4-H Rural Storytelling Project internship, Madison Albano ‘21, Wendy Ying Lau ’21 and Seth Bollinger ’21 put together a virtual program for kids across three New York state counties...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Communication

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Wilkerson to discuss ‘Racial Moment of Truth’ in CCSS lecture

Their moves north enabled the future winner of the Nobel Prize in literature to visit libraries, something she would have been forbidden to do had she grown up in the Jim Crow South. “By making the single decision to leave, her parents assured...

  • Department of Communication
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Students’ summers saved with global virtual internships
With late-breaking internship cancellations and research abroad no longer an option, students were left scrambling to make new plans for summer employment. That’s when Global Cornell stepped in. Drawing on worldwide connections, from faculty and...
  • Global Development Section
  • Development Sociology
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New Jeep ad supports Carl Sagan Institute initiative
The company’s advertisement for its new Wrangler 4XE plug-in hybrid features the late Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” monologue and images. And how it benefits CSI: For every view of the ad on Jeep’s YouTube channel, a...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Cornell unites science and policy to end hunger
New farming methods and crops that perform better in a changing environment are essential to higher living standards, but obtaining these innovations are too often impossible for small-scale farmers. “Our interest is to have improved seed...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food