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“Eight hundred and sixty volts is an incredible output of electricity for an animal. Our electric plug points are 110 volts,” said Casey Dillman, curator of fishes, amphibians and reptiles at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates and a co...
  • Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
  • Animals
  • Organisms

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Brian Davis, assistant professor in the D epartment of Landscape Architecture, won a national American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award for his work with the Dredge Research Collaborative on issues at the nexus of climate change...

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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The team will be led by Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, who is collaborating with Tobias Hanrath, professor at the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Buz Barstow...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Biology
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The 2019 Jane and Torrence Harder Lecture will be held Thursday, Sept. 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. A garden party will follow outside the Botanic Gardens’ Nevin Welcome Center; both events are free and open to the public...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
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Phosphorus from fertilized cropland frequently finds its way into rivers and lakes, and the resulting boom of aquatic plant growth can cause oxygen levels in the water to plunge, leading to fish die-offs and other harmful effects. Researchers...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
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Severe wheat disease epidemics produce staggering numbers of genetically diverse spores – and incalculable risks to global food supplies. If fungal spores encounter even a single susceptible wheat variety, natural selection positions the...
  • International Programs
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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For three days in early August at Stocking Hall, a handful of judges saw, sniffed and sampled 234 cheeses in 24 categories – all of it made in New York. The judges whittled the field down to a small group of contenders, then determined the top...
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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These three-year projects will add to the more than 60 existing CALS initiatives in New York City, further strengthening the ties between upstate and downstate. These projects also support the broader goals of President Martha E. Pollack’s...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Students conduct research in the forest

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This summer, a small team of citizen scientists – including two students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – bushwhacked their way through dense forest growth and clouds of biting insects. Their mission: gather scientific data...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Plants
  • Food
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Murray’s Stockinghall cheese – a bright, lemony, cloth-bound cheddar named for Cornell’s Stocking Hall and developed at the university in partnership with Old Chatham Creamery of Groton, New York – won best in show at the 36th American Cheese...
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Educators across the country can now use Cornell-designed interactive tutorials to teach elementary and middle schoolers how to participate positively in social media – while simultaneously learning to navigate some of its potential perils. The...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
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The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university. This year’s...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • Faculty
  • Communication
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Hale Ann Tufan, a leading advocate for gender equality as a central tenet of crop improvement, has won the 2019 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. The award, given by the World Food Prize, is the premier recognition for...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
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Cornell is teaming with Purdue University – a partnership of land-grant universities from New York and Indiana – to establish the first Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, which aims to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
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As methane concentrations increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas, according to new Cornell research published Aug. 14 in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Mushrooms just might be the superhero of foods – they repurpose agricultural waste, are nutrient-dense, can help manage diabetes and can be used to decrease meat consumption. It’s that last “superpower” that intrigues George Zheng, founder and...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food
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Liberals and conservatives may agree on at least one thing: the importance of working hard in order to succeed. According to new Cornell-led research exploring the foundations of morality, liberals and Democrats are far more inclined than...
  • Current Graduate Student
  • Faculty
  • Media
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Cornell and China’s Hebei Qimei Agriculture Science and Technology Co. Ltd., an organic food group, signed an agreement in June to collaborate on microbial food safety research. The agreement was funded by a three-year, $2.5 million grant from...
  • Faculty
  • Industry
  • Researcher
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With New York state’s $20 million berry industry entering peak season, an invasive fruit fly is thriving. Female spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii Matsumura) have a special ovipositor (a tube through which a female insect deposits eggs...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Department of Entomology
Plant scientist investigates his hemp crop

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The 2018 Farm Bill changed federal policy regarding industrial hemp, including the removal of hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and the consideration of hemp as an agricultural product. The change created an agricultural opportunity...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
  • Horticulture