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Ph.D. students design biology lesson for undergrads
Graduate students in six fields of study have designed an evolution lesson on speciation for undergraduate non-majors that applies active-learning techniques. The lesson, “ What is Speciation, How Does It Occur, and Why Is It Important for...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section

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Animal Science Excellence Fund honors faculty legacy, supports students

The legacy of Jerrie Gavalchin will live on, due in part to a new memorial fund established this past summer in her honor. Gavalchin, associate professor of animal science, died May 3 in a bicycling accident near her home in Groton, NY. The...

  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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Four Cornellians tapped for NYS climate advisory panels
Four Cornellians have been appointed to three climate advisory panels that will inform the New York State Climate Action Council – a task force established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo – to guide the state and draft a plan toward a zero-carbon economy...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Bridging divides with the 4-H Rural Storytelling Project
Each year the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Summer Internship Program invites dozens of students from across Cornell to engage with CCE staff on a broad variety of applied projects. This summer, three interns worked with 4-H program...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

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Community-engaged learning to build on colleges’ strengths

Five years into its mission to make community-engaged learning a hallmark of the Cornell undergraduate experience – and building on the passion and commitment of faculty, staff and students across the university – the Office of Engagement...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Ladybugs love their leafy greens
That’s because a diet consisting solely of aphids lacks an essential nutrient –sterols, like cholesterol – which all male animals need to make sperm, hormones, and to maintain cell health. As a result, farm-friendly aphid-eating ladybugs...
  • Food
  • Plants
  • Entomology
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Braudy Foundation funds Phase II of dust and drought research
The Braudy Foundation – founded by Bob Braudy ’65, M.Eng. ’66, and his wife, Judi – has committed to funding a second five-year phase of a collaboration between Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) and Northern Arizona...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Nature

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Dyson student tells Assembly how to fix NYS food insecurity

While poor economic indicators for the state’s food pantries show no sign of easing, food insecurity can be blamed on unemployment economics rather than on coronavirus hot spots, doctoral candidate Anne Byrne said in testimony Sept. 9 before the...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Migrations research highlights human impacts on environment
Birders across the Rocky Mountain region are reporting a decline in backyard traffic and dead migratory birds – including evidence of mass bird deaths in New Mexico. Sentinel species like wild songbirds are a potent reminder that humans and...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Striking pay dirt: Cornell soil soars to the space station
Morgan Irons is about to help make space-exploration history – and all she needed was a shovel and some dirt. Irons, a doctoral student in soil and crop sciences, will see the soil she scooped from a Cornell farm organic plot launch into space...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Artifacts from upstate Indigenous towns digitized, repatriated
The recently launched digital collection – Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Haudenosaunee Archaeological Materials, circa 1688-1754 – features two historical locations – White Springs and Townley-Read, both near Geneva, New York – which were inhabited...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Report: Plant science must innovate over next 10 years
The Plant Science Research Network (PSRN) has released its Plant Science Decadal Vision 2020-2030, a report that outlines innovative solutions to guide investments and research in plant science over the next 10 years as scientists tackle...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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Alliance for Science expands mission with $10 million reinvestment
The Cornell Alliance for Science is expanding its mission of science communication and advocacy, and broadening its commitment to diversity and inclusion, thanks to $10 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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From Peace Corps to Global Development

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Cornell to receive ‘on-campus’ accreditation visit via Zoom
Cornell has been accredited every decade by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since 1921, and starting now every 8 years, the university reapplies. This year’s accreditation process falls in the middle of a global pandemic – so...
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E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis
The method is described in a paper, “ Small subunits can determine enzyme kinetics of tobacco Rubisco expressed in Escherichia coli,” published Sept. 14 in the journal Nature Plants. Scientists have known that crop yields would increase if they...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
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$2M USDA grant funds value-added grains project
The project focuses on developing infrastructure to establish an organic industry for grains such as bread wheat, naked barley, hulless oats, rye, emmer, spelt and einkorn. “Grains are very nutritious and are a critical part of the human diet,”...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Organic
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NSF to fund study on far-reaching algal bloom impacts
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant for Cornell researchers to study the health dangers, changes in the lake food web, and socioeconomic challenges that arise when these algal blooms produce toxins. “With...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Centers of Innovation announced with goal to develop improved crops worldwide
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement announced approximately $4 million in funding to launch four Centers of Innovation (CoI) for Crop Improvement aimed at developing more resilient, nutritious crops in East Africa, West...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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New mobile app provides lifeline for farmers growing Bt eggplant
The new app “Btbegun” provides farmers, extension professionals, field officers, policymakers, seed suppliers and other stakeholders with the most current information about Bt eggplant — a genetically engineered variety resistant to a ravenous...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section