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Jake Zajkowski/Provided Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, leads Long Island golf course superintendents on a walk and talk event at Bethpage, just weeks before the 2025 Ryder Cup.

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A 25-year partnership between Cornell researchers and New York State Parks culminates at the 2025 Ryder Cup, the most sustainable professional golf tournament to date.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Horticulture
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  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients

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Nine postdoctoral scholars were honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards as part of Cornell’s participation in National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The awards recognize excellence in community engagement, leadership and mentoring.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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The ovary is a mystery of destruction and creation, unlike any other organ. Every time ovulation occurs, the vascular bed of blood vessels on the surface of the ovary dries up, causing cells to die and the follicle tissue there to degrade...
  • Animal Science
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Cornell Atkinson, The Nature Conservancy, Clean Air Task Force and Environmental Defense Fund have awarded grants to five research projects that aim to improve sustainability in the dairy industry.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
Doctoral student Peter Gracey works in the Leslie J. Herzog ’77 and Jacqueline Beckley Food Innovation Lab.

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Mmm, what's in these meatballs? A secret ingredient that would improve human health as well as apple producers' bottom line.

  • Cornell Food Venture Center
  • Food Science
  • Food
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For Kieri Keys ’28, it was love at first sight. Before beginning her freshman year at Cornell, Keys attended the Outdoor Odyssey pre-orientation program, which included a visit to the Dilmun Hill Student Farm. “I was immediately obsessed with it...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dilmun Hill Student Farm
  • Agriculture
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Scott Emr, the Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has won the World Laureate Association Prize, one of the world’s highest...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics

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September 17, 2025 Awards Professor danah boyd received an Honorable Mention, Star-Nelkin Best Paper Award from the American Sociology Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section. The award is in recognition of her co-authored article “ The...

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A new study found that bird migration over coastal waters in North America occurs on fewer nights compared to migration over land, varying in intensity depending on the season.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Climate Change

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A new study provides an example of asymmetry, a pattern found throughout biology where a pair of organs or appendages that mirror each other have different proportions and may have different functions.

  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
Cornell Cooperative Extension Summer Intern presents at Reception in the Biotechnology Building

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Summer projects spanned urban gardens in New York City, youth development in Buffalo and using artificial intelligence in health decision making.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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In two recent papers, Cornell researchers identified seven distinct strategies commenters employ when objecting to content online, noting that reputational attacks are most common but that moral appeals are viewed more favorably.

  • Communication
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  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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September 12, 2025 Welcome back to COMM Updates, the newsletter of the Department of Communication. New Faculty We are pleased to welcome Dr. Iveta Imre to our department as Senior Lecturer. Iveta is a former broadcast reporter who worked for...
Márk Sárváry
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Food entrepreneurs from across the region can tap into Cornell University's expertise to help grow their businesses through the newly established New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture (CoE) satellite office in Saratoga...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Larkin Podsiedlik, Executive Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Madison County, is driven by a lifelong passion for food, community, and fostering meaningful connections. She has devoted her career to creating supportive spaces...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Illustration of a Wardian case used for transporting plants, from a page in Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward’s treatise, “On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases,” published in 1842.

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Plants – as objects of admiration and scientific study and materials for creative expression – are the focus of a new Cornell University Library exhibit, “Plant-Based: Botanical Innovations from Paper to Poison,” which opens Sept. 18.

  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium
  • Plants
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Cornell will send its largest-ever delegation to Climate Week NYC 2025, to present on issues including the renewable energy transition, protecting public health from heat waves and addressing the impact of climate change on housing.

  • Climate Change