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Look over the side of a boat on Oneida Lake in early summer: In some places you can see straight down nearly 18 feet below. The water is clearer than it was two decades ago, when the lake was more often covered with algal blooms, and murky...

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As I write this, the Cornell community is mourning the sudden loss of our university’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett. President Garrett’s death from colon cancer has hit us especially hard as she was just beginning to move forward with her...

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Nutrition expert David Levitsky honored for teaching prowess, 48-year Cornell career
Professor David Levitsky has been named the 2016 Louis and Edith Edgerton Career Teaching Award winner for his distinguished and dedicated commitment to his students. Established in 1980, the award honors faculty members of the College of...
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Chris Fromme awarded Guggenheim fellowship
Chris Fromme ‘99, an associate professor in the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship...
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Research opens window into land control issues faced by indigenous people
Fernando Galeana Rodriguez, a doctoral student in development sociology, is studying emerging land control practices and potential effects on livelihoods, the environment and indigenous identity among the Miskitu people in Honduras, who have...
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Virus fighter may have played a key role in human evolution
A virus-fighting protein in humans and other primates triggers an explosion in genetic mutations that may have sped up the evolution of our species, according to a new study. “In some sense, this is scary,” says Kelley Harris, a geneticist at...
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‘Climate-smart soils’ may help balance the carbon budget
While farm soil grows the world’s food and fiber, scientists are examining ways to use it to sequester carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. “We can substantially reduce atmospheric carbon by using soil. We have the technology now to...
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CCE Helps Local Beverage Producers Hone Their Craft
Home to more craft breweries and cideries than you can shake a pint glass at, the Finger Lakes region continues to entice new craft beverage consumers and producers. Recognizing the value and continued potential of these growing industries...
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Kids face higher lead exposure playing in urban gardens
Cornell and New York state scientists estimate that some gardeners who toil in urban gardens and children who play in them could be exposed to lead levels that exceed U.S Food and Drug Administration thresholds. Their new research, which also...

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CALS experts address critical needs of New York communities

A trio of CALS researchers will use their expertise this summer to help students give voice to farmers in Tioga County, New York. The researchers — Todd Schmit, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and...

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High-calorie package images mislead eaters
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, pictures displayed on food packages, like cake mix, may be worth hundreds of extra calories, according to research from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Think of the typical box of cake mix sold at...
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$4.8 million USAID grant to improve food security
To strengthen capacity to develop and disseminate genetically engineered eggplant in Bangladesh and the Philippines, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Cornell a $4.8 million, three-year cooperative grant. The...

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Cornell study clarifies malaria “family tree”

A study just published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals a new hypothesis on the evolution of the hundreds of species of malaria — including the form that is deadly to humans. Extensive testing of malarial DNA found in...

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Cornell team aids mountain societies facing climate change
An international team of scientists – led by a Cornell professor of natural resources – will help communities in Asia’s Pamir Mountains recalibrate their seasonal-indicator ecological calendars to reckon the future effects of climate change. The...
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Ground-nesting bees on farms lack food, grow smaller
According to a recent study, the size of a common ground-nesting bee — an important crop pollinator — has grown smaller in heavily farmed landscapes. The link between intensive agriculture and the size of Andrena nasonii bees has important...
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Without soil data, crop insurance pricing is a bust
Farmers depend on insurance to cope with the enormous risk and cost it takes to coax crops from the ground. Unpredictable weather and rampaging pests all figure into the insurance rates farmers pay for economic protection, but there’s one...
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Cornell receives $24 million to combat threats to global wheat crop
Climate-change-induced heat stress and disease pathogens migrating across borders threaten the world’s wheat supply and food security in conflict zones of Africa and the Middle East. To expand the scope of a global partnership to combat these...
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Elizabeth Bihn named Executive Director of the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell
Elizabeth “Betsy” Bihn, PhD, has been appointed Executive Director of the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University. Established in December 2015 with a $2 million state grant, the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University is a...
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Mouse urine reveals mechanism for individual scents
mating potential and even health status through scents found in urine. A new study of mice and their urine, published March 3 in PLOS Genetics, reveals how mixing and matching combinations and relative amounts of scent chemicals leads to each...
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Disaster expert helps Philippines rethink crisis response
Typhoon Yolanda barreled towards the Philippines with winds topping 195 MPH on November 8, 2013, killing more than 6,300 people and inflicting over $2 billion in damages. For a nation of more than 7,000 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, the...