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The leadership minor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences addresses key skills aimed at helping students excel professionally and in their personal life by enhancing their abilities to understand their own strengths, collaborate with others and build a team, and act as positive role models.

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It takes about about 280,000 pounds of apples grown in Ithaca and at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, to make 20,000 gallons of classic Cornell Orchards cider.

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A forum in downtown Ithaca with faculty, staff and partners offered stories of experiences and answered questions about implementing community-engaged initiatives

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The introductory online course addresses climate science literacy.

Scientists inspect a high-throughput DNA sequencer in the Biotechnology Resource Center.

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The National Institutes of Health announced Sept. 27 that Cornell is one of three institutions nationwide to receive funding to establish a collaborative research center for the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

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The research is providing an unprecedented glimpse into the life of king salmon, allowing Cornell researchers to understand the behavior and movement of adult king salmon with more precision than ever possible before.

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Psychological distress can take a toll on more than just health. It can also significantly damage nest eggs, according to a new study by a Cornell financial economist and her co-author.

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The consortium aims to address a variety of issues impacting the lakes’ ecology, such as harmful algal blooms and invasive species.

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Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving modern birds as their only descendants.

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New findings show that glyphosate does not target the amino acid production and metabolic gadgetry equally among an important soil bacteria species.

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Molecular clocks suggest birds are much older than we know from the fossil record, but the discrepancy may be due to an underestimate of the pace of evolution.

Microscopic view of mold

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New research reveals varying levels of mold contamination in commercial sea salts. Among those molds were important food spoilage molds like Aspergillus and Penicillium, and even some notorious producers of mycotoxins.
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The National Park Service recruited Nina Bassuk to evaluate the trees on the National Mall and develop a comprehensive plan to preserve them.

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Cornell's undergraduate biological/agricultural engineering program ranked No. 4 in 2018 U.S. News & World Report ranking.

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Robert Karpman and Mike Timmons were honored with awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program.

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Researchers found that in the early stages of domestication, the skull changed shape but evolution of the mandible lagged behind and did not co-evolve with the skull.

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A discovery by associate professor Robert Reed reveals how a single gene can control an astonishing amount of diversity.

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A new course uses a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to teach the multi-faceted nature of contemporary communication.

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Young science and engineering Ph.D.s are increasingly foregoing careers in academia. New Cornell research suggests there is waning interest in the faculty career track.