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Sagar Chapagain stands at graduation with faculty and staff

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In a Dec. 16 ceremony in Barton Hall, President Martha E. Pollack encouraged December graduates to have a positive impact on the world, suggesting they "Start with compassion. Start with understanding. Start with kindness and with love.”

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Leaf doctor is a free app developed by Cornell and University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers that analyzes a photograph of a damaged leaf or fruit and quantifies the percentage and severity of disease visible.

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Adapt-N, a team from Cornell, was awarded the $1 million grand prize from the Tulane Nitrogen Reduction Challenge Dec. 14 in New Orleans.

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A revolutionary seed village project in Malawi led by Cornell University improves the incomes and livelihoods of Malawian farmers.

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Cornell students in the Department of Landscape Architecture are designing ways to make Hudson River communities more resilient to climate change.

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President Martha E. Pollack has committed the university to a new multi-institution initiative to make public data pertaining to career outcomes for life sciences doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

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A new social media simulator lets kids learn to present themselves online, deal with cyberbullying and identify fake news, all in a safe offline environment.

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Cornell’s International Agriculture and Rural Development 602 class is celebrating 50 years of international engagement.

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Seven faculty members are part of the yearlong Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program, which focuses on engaged courses and curricula.

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Farmers in the Northeast are adopting production habits tailored to longer, warming climate conditions, but they may face spring planting whiplash as they confront saturated fields from heavy rain.
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Jan Nyrop named the Goichman Family Director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

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The Cornell Small Farms Program will create a new “Labor Ready Farmer” curriculum to provide emerging farm business owners with the skills they need to run a successful farm operation.

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Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years – occurring in the western and southwestern United States.

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The nitrogen-management technology Adapt-N has been acquired by Yara International ASA, one of the world’s largest fertilizer companies.

Child eats ice cream with a spoon

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Eight student teams in Food Science 1101 created their own ice cream flavors for a melt-in-your-mouth final project.

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The project aims to bring malting barley back to New York and help farmers take advantage of the economic opportunities offered by the crop.

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Researchers stand in a cavern

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Cornell researchers are studying ways to strengthen water security on the Greek island of Santorini.
Child reads book

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Thanks to multilingual Cornell students, 500 Ithaca-area children learning English as a second language each have a new book personalized just for them, with the English text translated into their native language.
Green grapes

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For decades, our researchers have been transforming how grapes are bred and grown as well as how wine is crafted. That work continues today as we address the unique challenges and issues of our time—from managing pests and disease in a changing climate to exploring the science of taste in a world of rapid technological advancement.
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More than fifty years ago, Konstantin Frank challenged the notions of New York's wine industry, helping an entire region grow into a winemaking powerhouse.
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