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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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“[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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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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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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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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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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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
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A new survey shows that members of marginalized communities have broader views on what qualifies as an environmental issue, including human-oriented factors, like drug use and unemployment.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
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Asked how it self-corrects for climate change, the businessman, now shoulder-deep in water, replies: “By producing more lifeboats!” Cathy Kling, Tisch University Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, said...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
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Provost Michael Kotlikoff launched the initiative in fall 2016 across six cross-college discipline areas, each covered by a faculty task force: nanoscale science and microsystems engineering; genome biology; data science; sustainability...
  • Computational Biology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
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When ground-dwelling parasites munch on the roots of plants, they don’t just damage the roots: They trigger chemical changes in the plant itself.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Plants

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  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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“Armenia is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said Allison M. Chatrchyan, senior research associate in the Department of Global Development. “Temperatures there are rising more than the global average, drought is...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development