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Cornell aids distillers in making hand sanitizer
Across New York state, distilleries are responding to COVID-19 by producing hand sanitizer instead of their signature spirits, and experts at the Cornell Craft Beverage institute (CCBI) are helping them make the switch. “It’s been an interesting pivot for distilleries into this world,” said Chris Gerling, senior extension associate. “I have been parsing regulations and trying to keep distillers safe. Making hand sanitizer is not for hobbyists; this is for professionals.”
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Health + Nutrition
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Students face pandemic disruption with resilience
Lassan Bagayoko ’22 worries that some classmates no longer have access to on-campus resources like regular meals and safe housing. And Tina Ting ’20 mourns the loss of experiences she would have had during her senior spring. The coronavirus...
  • Biology
  • Environment

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Cornell University Evaluates Rust2Green (R2G) Impacts: Utica Participation is Key

Project leaders are encouraging all members of the Utica community to contribute to the University's online evaluation before its conclusion on April 12 by going to: https://participant.groupwisdom.tech/project/836/brainstorming . Recognizing...

  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Landscape Architecture
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Cross-campus effort rushes 3D-printed gear to Weill Cornell
“On Twitter I’d heard about how people are 3D printing face masks, so I decided to blast email all of the engineering department chairs to see if anybody knew of anybody who had printers or availability to print,” said Kuceyeski, who also leads...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease

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Cornell experts discuss state of pandemic

Faculty have mobilized their contacts around the world to help Cornell students and friends get home before borders closed. And as students readied to leave Ithaca, they donated blood at Red Cross stations set up on West Campus. These were a few...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Cornell AgriTech donates personal protective equipment to Finger Lakes Health
“Our mission has always been to help New Yorkers, and given current circumstances, we are finding new ways to do that,” said Larry Smart , associate director of Cornell AgriTech. “Because the health of Geneva community members is important, we...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Health + Nutrition
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Cornell Dairy helps replenish P&C Fresh milk stock
Allan Malek, manager of the East Hill Plaza store, wrote a quick email on March 14 to the Cornell Dairy Processing Plant, inquiring if it had any fluid milk and other dairy products the store could sell, alleviating some of the retailer’s...
  • Cornell Dairy Center of Excellence
  • Food
  • Beverages
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With new barley variety, Cornell leads the way for brewers
A team of plant breeders has developed and released the first variety of malting barley that is uniquely adapted to New York state's growing conditions, further supporting brewers' ability to source in-state ingredients.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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Video game experience or gender may improve VR learning, study finds

“We didn’t know exactly what we were going to see,” said Jack Madden, M.S. ’17, doctoral student in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and first author of “Ready Student One: Exploring the Predictors of Student Learning in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Students sketch Ossining’s budding waterfront ideas
Cornell graduate students studying landscape architecture examined Ossining last fall, and in mid-December presented the town and village with ideas for climate-change adaptation. The student projects included marrying the built environment with...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Water
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Cornell-discovered shrimp makes 2019 top 10, but not for taste
Nicknamed the "Star of the Sea," the World Registrar of Marine Species recognized this new species of bioluminescent shrimp for its diversity and unique mating behaviors.
  • Shoals Marine Laboratory
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology

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Professors to field food industry COVID-19 queries

The remote videoconference – the first of three sessions – can be accessed here. Food science panelists will be Sam Alcaine, assistant professor; Olga Padilla-Zakour, professor; and Martin Wiedmann, the Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety...

  • Food Science
  • Food
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Cornell creates detailed COVID-19 website for food industry
Coherent safety information for food processing plants in New York and other states can be difficult to find, said Sam Alcaine, assistant professor of food science, who led the writing of the descriptive text for the new website. Food processors...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Institute for Food Safety
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Research interrupted: Lab groups find their way together
The first was how best to help her students. “Everyone is just stunned ..., obviously because of the coronavirus, but also because of their research suddenly stopping or slowing down,” said Wolfner, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Entomology
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CCE podcast helps NYS communities meet challenges
“[We deal with] everything from what to do with pets, to ‘I have mold in my basement because I've been flooded,’ to ‘I have ice dams building on my roof because of a four- or five-foot snow load,’ and on and on,” Tidball said in a recent episode...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Webinar to address COVID-19 crisis communication
The current COVID-19 public health crisis has created lots of uncertainty, but on March 20 at 11 a.m., three of Cornell’s most prominent faculty will share their crisis communication expertise to help people best serve their stakeholders...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Chobani supports new generation of dairy leaders
She grew up working on her family’s farm in western New York, and now majors in animal science with a focus on dairy management. Starceski is one of four Cornell first-year students who’ve received $20,000 scholarships from Chobani to help them...
  • Animal Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
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Cornell helping NYS wineries craft sustainable future
Younger consumers aren’t engaging with it like their older peers, and are drinking less in general, but sustainably produced wine could change that. According to a 2019 Wine Intelligence consumer survey, sustainable wine had the highest future...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Sequencing hornwort genomes could improve crops
Fay-Wei Li, adjunct assistant professor of plant biology and a faculty member of the Boyce Thompson Institute, and researchers from across the globe sequenced the genomes of three hornworts, illuminating the dawn of land plants. The group also...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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Cornell experts view coronavirus via multidisciplinary lenses
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted lives around the world in numerous ways, and Cornell faculty members are sharing their expertise on everything from the virus itself to how it will affect local and global economies.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Health + Nutrition