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Relationships at root of Cornell Vegetable Program’s reach
Commercial vegetable grower Nelson Hoover does not own a car, a computer or a degree. In fact, the 28-year-old never attended high school. But for over a decade, Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Mennonite Conference in Penn Yan, New York, has...
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Climate change info now easier for New Yorkers to find, thanks to Cornell scientists, librarians
Type “New York climate data” into Google and be prepared for a deluge of nearly 8 million search results. Somewhere in that vast flood may be the relevant information you need, but wading through what’s trivial and out of date can be a...
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Minglin Ma wins Hartwell award for diabetes work
Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which supports scientists pursuing biomedical research to advance children’s health. Ma...
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Boots on the farm: Helping military vets enter agriculture
As a member of the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s elite construction battalion, James Turrell spent seven years putting his blood, sweat and building expertise to work all over the world, including stops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Fukishima Japan...
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New toolkit clarifies agricultural economic assessment
The surge in consumer demand for local foods in recent years has prompted fresh investment in agricultural enterprises, from farmers expanding their marketing efforts to communities establishing new co-ops. But evaluating the economic impacts of...
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CALS expert improves juice, profits for co-op in Malawi
The Mpamba Fruit Juice Producers Cooperative in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, has a track record of innovation, in the form of juices made from local mangos, oranges, tangerines and pineapples. The small, mostly female collective of 22 farmers had...
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Bryan Duff named Kaplan Faculty Fellow
Bryan Duff, senior lecturer in the Horticulture Section, was one of two recipients of the 2016 Kaplan Family Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning. He and Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, were recognized at the 15th annual...
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Cornell dairy team wins international honors
A team of Cornell animal science students can add a new line to their resumes: continental champions. Seniors Josh Landis, Kelsey Neckers, Greg Van Ravenswaay and Colleen Smith earned first-place honors in the North American Intercollegiate...
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Small bird tagging tech creates new ways to study animals
Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler found a needle in a haystack: three Ithaca tree swallows among 10 million or so overwintering in Florida this January. The coup was made possible by Winkler’s development of the first...
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Sue Fussell elected to the CHI Academy
Congrats to Sue Fussell! The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the...
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Evolutionary biologist Rick Harrison dies at 70
Richard “Rick” Harrison, Ph.D. ’77, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a pioneer in his field, died unexpectedly April 12 while visiting Lizard Island, Australia. Harrison was 70 years old. As a researcher whose expertise was both...
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Anurag Agrawal earns prestigious ecology award
Anurag Agrawal, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, entomology, and Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named the Robert H. MacArthur Award winner from the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The...
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Food scientists to help Ithaca Beer Company improve beer taste and brewing efficiency
Research by food science and chemistry students will aid the Ithaca Beer Company in evidence-based decision making on improving beer taste and brewing efficiency. Gavin Sacks, associate professor of food science, and Chris Gerling, manager of...
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Mann Award winner studies switching process in cells
Inside every plant and animal cell there is a Grand Central Station of sorts, called the Golgi complex, which ships proteins off to other parts of the cell via various pathways. Specific proteins are able to turn these pathways on and off, but...
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Cornell Dairy receives all clear to go kosher
Though only 2 percent of the U.S. population is Jewish, more than 40 percent of packaged food and beverages in the U.S. were labeled as kosher in 2014, according to Lubicom Marketing Consulting. And now, the Cornell Dairyis on board, having...
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Rachel Bezner Kerr named an International Faculty Fellow
Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, has been named an International Faculty Fellow for 2016–2019 by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Bezner Kerr’s research looks at the broad themes of sustainable...
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Finicky deer avoid some invasive plants, promoting spread
The dietary preferences of deer may be promoting the spread of such invasive species as garlic mustard, Japanese barberry and Japanese stiltgrass, according to a new study that tested white-tailed deer preferences for seven native and eight...

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My Cornell Story - Mitchell Kornet ’76, DVM ’79

It’s a springtime ritual that’s occurred for well over a decade. I get home on a Thursday night in late April after a long day of work at my companion animal veterinary practice. My telephone rings: “Hello, is Dr. Kornet in? I’m a student at...

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Enrollment Open for Online Shark Course

Did you know that you can track some sharks’ movements on Twitter? Or that the scales on their skin have influenced the way humans design boats, planes, and even swimsuits? Or that the anatomy of sixgill sharks has remained virtually unchanged...

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One More Thing - Solar Harvest in Geneva

Bring on the sunshine: Cornell’s new Sutton Road Solar Farm, a two-megawatt energy facility that will offset nearly 40 percent of the annual electricity demand at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., will be fully...

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