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$2M grant to fund assessment of biology education

The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $2 million collaborative research grant to principal investigators from Cornell, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Maine to assess the effectiveness of open educational resources in teaching core biology concepts, facilitating student-centered learning and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.

  • Biology

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Boots in the books: Veterans succeed at academic prep camp

Sixteen students veterans participated in a virtual Cornell academic boot camp to help them transition into higher education.

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Troubled Waters: Microplastic Pollution
Lisa Watkins, graduate researcher in our Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, analyzes streams and engages communities to reduce the plastic from clothes, grocery bags, and other products in our waterways.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Environment
  • Water
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Scientists take step to improve crops’ photosynthesis, yields
Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than most crops, so researchers are working to put elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants. A new study describes a significant step towards achieving that goal...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Environment
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Facial recognition AI helps save multibillion dollar grape crop
A radical collaboration between a biologist and an engineer is supercharging efforts to protect grape crops, and the technology they’ve developed will soon be available to researchers nationwide.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Touted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas or coal
‘Blue hydrogen – made by using methane in natural gas – is lauded a clean, Cornell and Stanford researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy

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TV ads inspire investment interest

In a new Cornell-led study, published Aug. 10 in Management Science, researchers show that advertising is one of the most noteworthy influences behind retail stock investing.

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Sarah Evanega Joins BTI Faculty

Boyce Thompson Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Sarah Evanega as the newest addition to our faculty. Evanega joins BTI from Cornell University, where she was a research professor in the Department of Global Development and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS). She will remain an adjunct associate professor in SIPS at Cornell.

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Health + Nutrition
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Politicians in areas with most climate risk tweet about it least
Almost all U.S. politicians tweet about climate change based on party affiliation and the opinion of their constituents, not actual climate risk to the areas they represent, a new multidisciplinary study found.
  • Department of Communication
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Global Development Section
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New York Youth Institute announces student delegates to global youth event
Cornell's New York Youth Institute (NYYI) announced the selection of 20 outstanding high school students who will represent New York State as delegates to the 2021 World Food Prize Global Youth Institute.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell's Humphrey Program: An opportunity to grow and lead
Humphrey Program associate director Polly Endreny Holmberg recounts a first year with the program full of uncertainty, experimentation and inspiring support.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Food scientists create national atlas for deadly listeria
The pathogen listeria soon may become easier to track down in food recalls, thanks to a new genomic and geological mapping tool created by Cornell food scientists.
  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Family values outweigh politics in U.S. Latinos’ climate beliefs
New research led by Adam Pearson ’03, associate professor of psychological science at Pomona College, and Jonathon Schuldt ’04, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and interim executive director...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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New archive reveals treasure trove of U.S. media experiments
Almost from the day it launched in March 2012, the media company Upworthy began conducting experiments, testing which headlines and photos on their stories people responded to best. The experiments worked. A year after its launch, Upworthy was...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Leading Through Extension: Supporting New York's Farmworkers
Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program and a faculty member in the Department of Global Development. In this episode of "Extension Out Loud," Dudley recalls the history of the Cornell Farmworker Program and shares some...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Celebrating the Viticulture & Enology class of 2021

  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
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New Cornell sugarhouse sweetens NY’s maple industry
The Cornell Maple Program has opened an advanced, New York state-funded maple research laboratory, an upgrade that will enable research on making high-quality syrup, and new and existing maple products – all at commercial scales.
  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Food
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Students, employees foster mutual learning partnerships during pandemic

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Vive la différence: When lemons masquerade as plums
CALS associate professor Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and collaborators have found that a law regulating wine production in 1930s France, known as the AOC, resulted in a 7% net increase in industry welfare, and set the standard for quality control.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Beverages
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Hemp goes ‘hot’ due to genetics, not environmental stress
Growing hemp for CBD (cannabidiol) is a burgeoning industry, thanks to the compound’s use in treating everything from pain, anxiety and depression to easing cancer-related symptoms.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Crops