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Grow-NY finalists put down roots in NYS food and ag economy
“It’s a bee oasis,” says Scofield, a Cornell doctoral candidate who studies honeybee health. The 50-acre organic farm, owned by the Wegmans grocery store chain, offers honeybees a wide variety of pollens to feed on, she says. It’s also the...

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Meet our new faculty - fall 2019

  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Moonbeam adds a big bang of flavor to Galaxy tomatoes
“Moonbeam is a very good eating experience from start to finish … from first bite to aftertaste,” said Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech, who started developing Moonbeam in 2006 and made it a selection in...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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CCE podcast profiles Cornell Farms Ops’ work with veterans
For military veterans interested in starting a career in agriculture, these problems can be exacerbated by limited funding for education and training, and fewer community and social connections, which are common challenges for veterans re...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Expert: Design information networks that support democracy
Problem solved: Deep in an obscure online forum, years earlier, a woman from a far-away part of the world had posted the complicated sequence of button-pressing necessary to complete the task. “This is so routine for us that we don’t realize...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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CALS honors talent, dedication of faculty & staff
On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The awards recognize the notable and wide...
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Fils-Aimé delivers inaugural Leaders in Residence lecture
Fils-Aimé is the inaugural Leader in Residence at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His talk, sponsored by the Dyson Leadership Program, focused on a list of guiding principles for leaders that he developed while...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Fresh produce earns ‘halo effect’ under new GMO-labeling laws
The research, “ Signaling Impacts of GMO Labeling on Fruit and Vegetable Demand,” published online Oct. 30 in the journal PLOS One. The study comes as food marketers prepare for a new federal law requiring genetically modified organism...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Genetics
  • Food
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Women on Instagram derided as too real – or not real enough
This leaves women on Instagram caught in an “authenticity bind” – the nature of social media compels them to share details from their personal lives, but these details make them vulnerable to abuse or charges that they’ve “curated” or faked...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Digital agriculture workshop highlights radical collaborations
Two Cornell researchers are tackling the age-old problem using 21st century tools: inexpensive, touch-sensitive soft robots that can help growers predict yield and detect fungal threats.' Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor of...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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CCE connects local farms, foodies through Taste NY
Owners John and Dawn Alfano have fed their 19 dairy goats a breakfast of sweet feed mixed with black sunflower seeds before releasing them to a hillside paddock, where they sunned themselves in dappled grass, snacked on crispy golden maple...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture

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Symposium seeks to beat back ‘zombies,’ grow sustainable housing

In fact, so-called “zombie homes” – often left vacant and unmaintained during prolonged foreclosure proceedings – are a serious problem that drew experts from academia, government and nonprofit organizations to Cornell Oct. 23-24 for a symposium...

  • Community and Regional Development Institute
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Borlaug Field Award winner delivers message of self-reflection and gender equality
For those from the United States, the mental image may be an older white man standing next to a gleaming new tractor beside a 1,000 acre field rippling with golden wheat. But in many other parts of the world, the reality of farming is much...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Health inequities and storytelling in new podcast episode

“My work has sought to identify specific strategies that both convey fundamental causes of health inequities but also offer promising solutions to address them via policy change,” says Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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Art and science provide fertile ground for research, teaching
“I remember having a conversation with a French artist in Berlin who was working on a sound installation to investigate the sounds of soil,” said Lehmann, professor of soil and crop sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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CCE’s Blocks in Bloom helps communities flourish
Her mother, Lydia Rivera-Warr, was taken aback by her child’s observation. “But she was right,” says Rivera-Warr. “Back then, not only was Emerson Street strewn with litter, it was a place where drugs were sold openly and prostitutes hung around...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Nature
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Simoes-Costa wins $2.3M NIH New Innovator Award
With a grant of $2,355,000 over five years, Marcos Simoes-Costa, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, will investigate how the spatial complexity of an organism is generated in early development. “For the human body to be...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology

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New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

The Department of Global Development will draw from faculty across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to create a unified development studies program focused on engagement with the world’s grand challenges at home and abroad...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Bailee Hopkins-Hensley is connecting people to plants
Bailee Hopkins-Hensley ’18, MPS ’19, is passionate about exploring the connections that humans have to plants – especially the connections that indigenous communities have to the species that sustain them. She earned a bachelor’s degree in plant...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Dyson faculty member receives Weiss teaching award

The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. The eight awardees were unanimously recommended by a selection committee composed of six faculty members...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics