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Bryce Demopoulos ’23 rescued a man from the subway tracks in New York City Aug. 4, seconds before an incoming train pulled into the station.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Plant-based alternatives to beef will help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but they could disrupt the agricultural workforce, threatening more than 1.5 million industry jobs.

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Ronnie Coffman

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Ronnie Coffman, a pathbreaking plant breeder and scientific leader who for five decades has confronted issues of famine and food insecurity in some of the poorest and most remote places in the world, will become professor emeritus on August 16.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Cows in a barn on a Catskill farm

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Rising temperatures pose major challenges to the dairy industry – a Holstein’s milk production can decline 30 to 70% in warm weather – but a new Cornell-led study has found a nutrition-based solution to restore milk production during heat-stress...

  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
Doctoral students Aleah Butler-Jones '19, left, and Maria Gannett, M.S. '16 practice with other Cornell graduate students at a hotel parking lot the night before the weed competition.

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Cornell’s undergraduate Weed Team won first place, while Megan Wittmeyer ’22 earned a top individual award, at the Northeastern Weed Science Society Collegiate Weed Science Contest.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Wheat field

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Adjusting the sowing dates for wheat in eastern India will increase untapped potential production by 69%, new research shows, helping to ensure food security and farm profitability as the planet warms.

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Cornell summer students walk through a sunny Ho Plaza towards McGraw Tower.

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Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been honored for her work to promote age-friendly communities...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
nickrent accepting fellowship

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
Footprints discovered on an archaeological site are marked with a pin flag on the Utah Test and Training Range.

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Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last ice age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range by Cornell researcher Thomas Urban.
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
A new study showed that by following action thresholds to determine when to apply insecticides to control onion thrips, farmers made 2.3 fewer applications per season while maintaining yields and bulb size.

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A surprise finding from new research on controlling pests and disease in New York commercial onion fields will enable the state’s producers to cut their use of synthetic chemicals without sacrificing yield.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
Wheat design with colorful shapes

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Anonymous snorkeler swimming in azure seawater

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New research in biomechanics measures the impact of head-first, hand-first and feet-first diving and the likelihood of injury at different diving heights.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
Corn plants

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Corrine Brown ’23 is a rising senior majoring in agricultural sciences, with an emphasis in business management and a minor in soil science. She transferred from SUNY Morrisville after her sophomore year to pursue her passion in agricultural...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
CCE Ag Climate Resiliency Specialists Jenna Walczak and Zach Spangler

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Adapting to climate change, reducing carbon emissions and participating in carbon sequestration efforts is a new frontier for many farmers across the state. To help them navigate new technology and translate the latest climate research into...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
Cornell Cooperative Extension and New York State Integrated Pest Management are setting and monitoring traps at high traffic areas where the spotted lanternflies are most likely to appear.

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The devastating spotted lanternfly’s spread to upstate and western New York is not a matter of if, but when, experts say – and Cornell is a key player in helping slow the infestation.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Department of Entomology
Sphingolipids, derived from bacteria in the intestine, appear to ameliorate problematic fattiness of the liver.

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Sphingolipids – prominent molecules produced by bacteria in the gut microbiome – appear to ameliorate a problematic fatty liver, according to new Cornell nutrition research.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease

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A study exploring how the unionization of local governments impacts contracting for services earned the top research article award from the journal Local Government Studies. Mildred Warner, professor in the Department of Global Development (...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Portrait of Jacob Pucci. Man wearing red and gray plaid shirt with short brown hair.

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Describe your role at the Center of Excellence: As marketing and communications coordinator, I'm in charge of sharing the COE's story with the world and expanding the reach of our vital work. I write and promote news and feature stories, manage...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
Dried up corn

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Extreme heat threatens to reverse progress made in combating early child malnutrition as the planet continues to warm, according to Cornell research focused on five West African nations.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
  • Global Development
A farmer stands in a field

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Larger organic farms operate more like conventional farms and use fewer sustainable practices than smaller organic farms, according to a new study that also provides insight into how to increase adoption of sustainable practices.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section