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Lost in translation: Organic matter cuts plant-microbe links
In a symbiotic relationship, microbes called rhizobia act like agricultural “butlers” to fetch nitrogen from the air for the legume plants. When carbon is added to the soil, it helps the soil retain nutrients, but it can repress plant-microbe...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Cornell launches science communication minor
Supported by a grant from the Office of Engagement Initiatives, the minor is hosted by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and open to all Cornell undergraduates. The SCoPE minor consists of 18 credit hours, separate from the eight...
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Department of Entomology
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Cornell Orchards Store to close Jan. 31
Beyond that date, a return of the public retail portion of the orchards is uncertain, as the operation has been struggling financially for many years. Administrators from the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca are...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
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Paper wasps rapidly evolved ability to identify faces
New research indicates facial recognition abilities in paper wasps evolved relatively rapidly, suggesting that their increasing intelligence provided an incredible evolutionary advantage. This new research also sheds light on how intelligence evolves in general, which has implications for many other species – including humans.
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Evolution
  • Entomology
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Downturn looms, but may not swing election
Don’t bet on it, said Steven Kyle, associate professor of applied economics and management. A nearly decadelong run of growth in the U.S. economy will peak in 2020, Kyle predicts, but a recession may not be evident until after the Nov. 3...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior

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Statement from Dean Boor on the 2020 New York budget

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled his budget plans during the 2020 State of the State and Budget Address in Albany on Jan. 21, 2020 . Kathryn J. Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said...

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Study takes on e-cigarette warning ‘paradox’
As controversy swirls around the vaping industry, a team of Cornell researchers is helping regulators identify the most effective health warnings to include in advertisements for electronic cigarettes.
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior
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Genetic marking discovery could ease plant breeders’ work
A team of grapevine breeders and scientists at Cornell AgriTech has come up with a powerful new method to identify important genetic markers and transfer them across species of wild and cultivated grapes.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Wild tomatoes resist devastating bacterial canker
In a new paper, Cornell researchers showed that wild tomato varieties are less affected by bacterial canker than traditionally cultivated varieties. The paper, “ Characterizing Colonization Patterns of Clavibacter michiganensis During Infection...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Pimentel, professor emeritus and environmental scientist, dies at 94
Pimentel published more than 700 studies and 40 books, and was a pioneering voice calling for protection of the environment and promoting sustainability. He was the first agricultural researcher to argue against DDT use before it was banned, and...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects
A new collaboration between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy will fund three studies that look for long-term, sustainable solutions to help adapt to the effects of intensifying climate change.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Howarth appointed to New York’s new Climate Action Council
Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, has been appointed to the new Climate Action Council
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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New CALS website showcases life-changing research, teaching and outreach
Since May 2018, the CALS Office of Marketing and Communications has been leading a strategic initiative to rethink the online system. Launched in late 2019, the first phase of the new web system expands the college’s digital storytelling...
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Global Fellows Program celebrates first year of undergraduate research experiences in Hungary
In 2019, three Cornell undergraduates participated in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ (CALS) first Global Fellows Program based in Hungary. The three students are among the approximately 100 alumni of the Global Fellows Program...
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • International Programs
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
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Cornell joins consortium to ‘green’ business supply chains
With more than 100 corporate, academic and nongovernmental organization (NGO) members – including Amazon, ExxonMobil, Campbell’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsico Inc., Walmart and the World Wildlife Fund – the consortium explores paths to address...
  • Cornell Atkinson

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Plants speak ‘roundworm’ for self-defense, study shows

Led by faculty member Frank Schroeder, the group studied a group of chemicals called ascarosides, which the worms produce and secrete to communicate with each other. As described in a paper published Jan. 10 in Nature Communications, the...

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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December graduates depart with degrees, reading list
The landscape below was one she first came to know during two years of elementary school in Ithaca, while her mother did postdoctoral work at Cornell. After the family moved to Long Island, she’d treasured memories of the university’s green...
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CALS research leads list of 2019’s most read stories
In addition to the world-class education it offers, Cornell is a renowned research university, so it should come as no surprise that the most read Cornell Chronicle stories of 2019 dealt with the university’s quest to answer some of science’s...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering

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CALS offers new minor in community food systems

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Students interested in learning about the social, political and agricultural aspects of food systems can choose a new minor, starting this fall, in community food systems. The new multidisciplinary minor...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Development Sociology
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Good role models can help dairy farmers reduce antibiotic use
To find out why, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands used a social psychology approach to understand how dairy farmers’ views impact how and when they use antibiotics to treat...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Dairy