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Conference Papers Associate Professor Dawn Schrader is delivering 3 papers at the Association for Moral Education annual conference. “Four Case Studies of Ethics in Political Revolutions: Moral Education and the Ethical and Epistemological...
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SLF will lay eggs on any solid surface, including trees, tires—even lawn furniture. Scrape the eggs by putting them in doubled sealable bags, alcohol or hand sanitizer or by smashing or burning them. Fewer eggs this winter mean fewer SLF next...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
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Andrew Turner ’88, M.P.S. ’93, has been appointed director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and associate dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the College of Human Ecology (CHE).

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Energy
  • Food
Catharine Young and Benjamin Z. Houlton sit in bright yellow arm chairs talking with "grow-ny" all over the back wall.

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The fifth annual Grow-NY Summit will convene food and ag startups and industry players Nov. 14-15 at the Holiday Inn Binghamton Downtown, spotlighting the innovative technologies being developed locally and their impact that spans beyond the...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Cornell AES administers annual federal funding that supports research to improve lives and livelihoods in New York state.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystems
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Four such delectable berries – honeyberry, juneberry, aronia and elderberry – are being studied at Willsboro Research Farm, which is marking the 10-year anniversary of its specialty fruit trials. These native berries were essential food sources...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Willsboro Research Farm
  • Agriculture

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Ultraviolet light, which has been used successfully to suppress fungal powdery mildew in grapes, strawberries and cucumbers, can also destroy the bacteria that causes devastating fire blight in apples, according to new research from Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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CBFS graduate student Toby Holda, working with Watkins, Rudstam, Boynton from CBFS, and collaborators from EPA (Scofield), Univ Michigan (Jude), NOAA (Pothoven), USGS (Warner, O’Brien) and DFO Canada (Currie, Bowen), analyzed the abundance...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Ecosystems
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Retired Cornell educators have until Nov. 6 to submit applications for the 2024 Podell Endowment Awards, which support projects that aim to make the world a better place.

  • Department of Entomology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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On October 4, students in the course Plant Science and Systems (PLSCI 1101) assisted in the planting of 40,000 daffodil bulbs into the sod along both sides of Taughannock Boulevard (Route 89) just south of Ithaca Children’s Garden. “It only took...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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For Cornell students studying environmental science, creating art with naturally dyed yarn, soil paintings to depict climate change and woodcuts featuring poetry brought ecology into focus.

  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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Susan Brown and Kevin Maloney thought they had a winner on their hands when they took their very first bite of an apple seedling that would eventually be named SnapDragon. Proof came earlier this year, when the apple won the outstanding cultivar...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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One of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance systems is set to expand its capacity to protect wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Pathology

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The hackathons, run by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, are open to undergraduate and graduate students from any field and major and take place from Friday evenings through Sunday afternoon.

  • CIFS-IPP
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Alumni News Professor Hepeng Jia Ph.D. ’19 was ranked as a provincial key talent in China. This marks the first time a faculty member of the School of Communication, Soochow University (Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), received this honor. This...
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Plant pathogens can hitch rides on dust and remain viable, with the potential for traveling across the planet to infect areas far afield, a finding with important implications for global food security and for predicting future outbreaks.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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The work and accomplishments of 19 Cornell Cooperative Extension summer interns were celebrated at a reception, held Sept. 26 in the Biotechnology Building.

  • Biological Field Station
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Fish
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Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Institute for Computational Sustainability are using big data and AI to model hidden patterns in nature – not just for one bird species, but for entire ecological communities across...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystems