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Ribosome Quality Control in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Heather Feaga, Microbiology, is identifying and characterizing strategies used by gram-positive bacteria to detect and rescue stalled ribosomes.
  • Microbiology
  • Bacteria
  • Microbiology
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LeadNY opens applications for leaders in food, agricultural sectors
New York’s premier leadership development program is now accepting applications for its next class of leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resources sectors of the Northeast. This year’s cohort will be the 20th class in the program...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Saket Bagde Named Recipient of Prestigious Award in Biological Sciences

Based on an article from the Fred Hutch Cancer Center Cornell's Saket Bagde was announced as one of twelve recepients of the 2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which, "recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in the...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genetics

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The Genetics Society of America Name the New Board of Directors

Based on an article from Genes to Genomes: A Blog from the Genetics Society of America The Genetics Society of America recently announced the election of five new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors, including two of Cornell's own. Mariana...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genetics

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Seed grants foster collaboration across Cornell campuses

The funding will support preliminary disease-related research, in the latest in a series of efforts to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary research.

  • Department of Communication
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Nutritional Sciences
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Barley and malt summit hails new Cornell-bred barley varieties

Farmers, brewers, distillers and researchers gathered for the sixth annual Empire State Barley and Malt Summit, to celebrate successes and plan for the future of New York’s growing craft brewery and distillery industries.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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Lyrebird vocal diversity reduced in fragmented habitat

The Albert’s lyrebird is a talented mimic, but as its rainforest habitat in Australia shrinks, so does the number of sounds that the bird can produce, degrading lyrebird culture.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity
Olga Padilla-Zakour, Pam Helming and Cathy Young standing in a row. Helming is holding a commemorative plaque.

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Cornell AgriTech honored with New York State Senate Empire Award
New York State Senator Pamela A. Helming presented Cornell AgriTech with a New York State Senate Empire Award in recognition of the station's significant contributions and dedication to the growth, prosperity and betterment of the community and...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
Three women in a kitchen wearing hairnets. Robin Kim on the left is measuring corn syrup, while Jordan Roth holds the measuring cup. Sue Kim in the background takes the temperature of a sugar water solution in a pot on a stove.

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Three years late, food science make-up lab is sweet as sugar

Among all the missed experiences of spring 2020, first-year food science majors lost one more: the opportunity to make candy in a lab. They created gummy worms and candy bars a thousand days later.

  • Food Science
  • Food

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Concord grape innovation awards highlight new opportunities

Six food and beverage producers from across New York took home shares of over $100,000 in prizes Friday at the first New York Concord Grape Innovation Awards, a business competition aimed at stimulating growth and innovation in the state’s...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center

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Better digital tools could help immigrants access benefits

A Cornell research team identified barriers to immigrants’ use of online resources that could help them access health and legal benefits, and recommended solutions they incorporated into a new website, Rights for Health.

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication

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Soil health summit connects farmers, researchers, policymakers

Cornell hosted the second New York Soil Health Summit Dec. 13, bringing together those who aim to assist growers in mitigating and adapting to climate change while protecting farmer livelihoods and rural economies.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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Randy Barker, expert in Asian rice economics, dies at 92

Randy Barker ’53, an agricultural economist who spent half his career in Asia supporting food security and sustainable rice growing, died July 5 in Providence, Utah. He was 92.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
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Recalling Renaissance, honeycomb ice cream charms judges

For their ice cream final project, students in Cornell’s introductory food science class – this year sweetened by a Renaissance theme – harkened back 500 years to explore flavors from antiquity.

  • Food Science
  • Food
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Feeding apple waste to chickens may boost their health

An apple a day may keep the veterinarian away. Juice, pulp and other waste from Empire apples, when injected into chicken eggs before hatching, show signs of boosting the animal’s health.

  • Food Science
  • Food
Tamar Law

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RANA Prize winner tackles blue carbon issues in Indonesia
Tamar Law, a Ph.D. student in development studies whose research examines the climate justice dimensions of climate mitigation, earned the 2022 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA) Prize, the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
  • Global Development Section
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
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Polson Institute grants accelerate global development initiatives
The Polson Institute for Global Development announced its fall 2022 grants to support research at the intersection of systemic inequality and social-environmental justice.
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Genesis Contreras and her service dog inside a lab. Genesis is wearing a lab coat, and holding the leash to her dog. The dog is wearing a lab coat, booties, and googles as well.

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‘Doggles,’ booties keep student’s service dog safe in the lab

Multiple faculty and staff collaborated with Genesis Contreras ’24 to allow her service dog, Nugget, to work alongside her in the lab.

  • Office of Undergraduate Biology
  • Animals
Microplastics outline the incoming tide at a Lanzarote Island beach in the Canary Islands.

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Doctoral student co-authors global plastics declaration

Cornell doctoral candidate Bethany Jorgensen co-authored the 2022 Lanzarote Declaration – a synthesized wish list of action in anticipation of a U.N. treaty on global plastic pollution in 2024.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Climate Change
  • Environment

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Nutrient function over form:

Experiments were conducted across the Northeastern US to evaluate the importance of nitrogen and phosphorus as limiting nutrients in a variety of lakes. Most lakes were co-limited by nitrogen and phosphorus. Oneida Lake was one of the few lakes...

  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources