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New York farmers tour research fields at our Musgrave Research Farm

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While most industrial grain crops are annuals that must be replanted every year, a new perennial grain called Kernza has hit the markets with growing interest from restaurants, bakeries and brewers.
  • Field Crops
Bottles of Maple Syrup

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In spite of 2018 being the fifth warmest February in New York state’s recorded history, March has been unseasonably cool, which has stalled the state’s maple syrup production.
Cornell Botanic Gardens

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Cornell Botanic Gardens offers weekly, guided “Mindful Botany” walks, beginning April 6, from noon to 1 p.m. for six consecutive Fridays.

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Cornell food scientists have discovered that when mice are fed a high-fat diet and become obese, they lose nearly 25 percent of their tongue’s taste buds – possibly encouraging them to eat more food.

Yianni Diakomihalis in Winning Pose

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Yianni Diakomihalis '22 became the second Big Red freshman to earn a national title in wrestling, following in the footsteps of CALS alumnus Kyle Dake ’13.
Picture of Jonathon Schuldt

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Upending the conventional thinking in climate change communication, Jonathon Schuldt finds when people say faraway climate impacts feel geographically nearby, they don’t necessarily support policies that would stop them.
Consultation Area with Computers

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A new redesign of the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository website makes it easier to find and use a broad variety of map data.
Colored and Black Butterfly Wings

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Robert Reed won the 2017 Cozzarelli Prize for scientific excellence and originality for proving that butterfly wing color and iridescence are activated by a single gene.
Aerial view of the Great Lakes

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Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for creating ecologic gold from shipping port sediment.
Cornell students stand with U.S. Rep. Tom Reed on the steps of the Capitol building

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Cornell students descended on Capitol Hill March 14 for Student Aid Advocacy Day to share their experiences with financial aid.

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Brenda Umutoniwase ’20 and Grace Giramahoro ’20, found a Cornell student trip to United Nations Feb. 16 enlightening.

Corn Stalks

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New research reveals that even the highest performing maize crops contain rare harmful mutations that limit crop productivity.

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Gilbert Levine, emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering, first retired in 1983 after more than 30 years on the Cornell faculty. He's giving it another try at age 90.

Gilberto Trevino listens to Sarah Barr Engel discuss wind energy at the poster session at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium

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The color of money may be the best tint for keeping the world from warming was a key message at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium, “Unleashing the Hidden Power of Sustainability,” on March 10.

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A new initiative aims to increase participation rates and enhance the success of under-represented ethnic minorities and students who are deaf or hard of hearing in biological and biomedical graduate fields at Cornell.

House finch standing in snow

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A new study outlines a pathogen strategy to overcome the immune systems of house finches with conjunctivitis infections.
Conor McCabe stands outside Livestock Pavilion building

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Delegates from Cornell traveled to Washington, D.C., March 4-7 to advocate for federal support of land-grant universities and agricultural research.
an Hewson standing in water in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

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Cornell CALS scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses, the environment and wasting diseases among sea stars in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.
close-up of an emerald ash borer

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The emerald ash borer – an invasive beetle that has destroyed ash trees across the country – has been detected for the first time in Tompkins County in Cornell's 4,200-acre Arnot Forest.
A student at the Vanderpoel School in Chicago waters the community garden

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The South Side of Chicago, where Dejah Powell ’18 grew up, is known as an urban food desert. Powell, an environmental and sustainability science major, is helping to change that.