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LeadNY Announces New Class of Food, Ag and Natural Resources Leaders
LeadNY prepares adult professionals for leadership roles through seminars, workshops, and field travel experiences both in and out of New York State, including a study trip. The second year of the program focuses on national and international...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Scientists resurrect ancient enzymes to improve photosynthesis
A Cornell study describes a breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate changes and increasing yields to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050.
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genetics
  • Plants
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Fisheries research continues on Oneida Lake
On April 12, 2022, Cornell Field Station staff completed the marking portion of the 2022 Oneida Lake walleye mark-recapture population estimate. Over 21,000 adult walleye were marked with a fin clip and released back into the lake. Later in the...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
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Greening food preservation nourishes the environment
As consumers want fewer food preservatives and less plastic waste, Cornell scientists have created a bioderived polymer that helps salad dressings and beverages last longer in the fridge.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Food Science
  • Environment

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Cornell's Humphrey program director Peter Gregory to retire

Peter Gregory, who for more than a decade supported cadres of international leaders through Cornell’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, plans to retire June 30 from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences where he has served as a noted educator, researcher and administrator since 2001.

  • Global Development Section
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NY high schoolers tackle food security issues at Cornell event

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Entomology

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Johan Swinnen to give first Global Development Distinguished Speaker talk

Global food systems expert Johan Swinnen, Ph.D. ’92, will explore the lessons learned and the steps needed to prevent a hunger catastrophe in the first talk of a new speaker series dedicated to confronting the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change

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Meet our new faculty - spring 2022

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Easy test can see if breeding bulls have the right stuff
Forget sending bull semen out for complicated laboratory tests to learn whether the agricultural animal is virile. Cornell scientists have developed a faster, easier microfluidics method.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
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NY Stewards trained to work on local climate change projects
Specialists at Cornell University and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) have established a program of stewards who are being trained to help their communities mitigate the causes of, and adapt to become more resilient to climate change. “Climate change...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Climate Change
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$6.75M EPA grant to fund Great Lakes food web monitoring
Cornell received the grant to continue efforts to monitor and research the lower part of the food web, particularly zooplankton like Mysis and benthic invertebrates.
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
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Deserts ‘breathe’ water vapor, study shows
A Cornell-designed probe shows how water vapor penetrates powders and grains – a finding that could have wide-ranging applications in pharmaceutical research, agriculture and food processing, and planetary exploration.
  • Microbiology
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Students sharpen their culinary skills in new Discovery Kitchen
Students are now taking classes the Discovery Kitchen, a state-of-the-art teaching space built into the ground floor of Toni Morrison Hall on North Campus.
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Animal Science club event opens new doors to dairy science
The Cornell University Dairy Science Club (CUDS) held their 2022 Dairy Open House and Spring Classic Sale on March 18-19, after a three-year pause due to COVID-19. This was the first entirely student run event in years. Here, animal science major and CUDS co-sale chair, Isabel Hall ’23, reflects on the sale’s success and excitement for the next sale year.
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
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Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture Ph.D. Candidate Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition
Plant pathology and plant-microbe biology doctoral candidate Juliana González-Tobón won the the People’s Choice Award and $250 at the seventh annual Cornell University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Watch Out Chicken, Here Comes Hemp
PhD candidate Martin Liu is interested in how hemp might function as a food source, and particularly, as a source of protein.
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Why Are Ponds Biogeochemical Hotspots?
With this CAREER award, Meredith A. Holgerson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is studying how the strength of benthic-pelagic coupling influences ecosystem function in temperate ponds.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
  • Biodiversity
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A first: Cornell’s red-tailed hawk lays fourth egg
For the first time since the Lab of Ornithology installed a live camera on the nest in 2012, Big Red, the female red-tailed hawk, has produced a fourth egg during breeding season.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Nature
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Migrations project helps refugees claim health care rights
A Cornell collaboration crossing medicine, law, technology and communication is aiming to encourage the use of health care benefits by refugees in the U.S. – who often suffer poor health but are using these entitlements less than they have in the past.
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
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Facing high water, Hudson towns reimagine waterfronts
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in partnership with Cornell, is announcing a chance for Hudson riverfront communities to host the university’s Department of Landscape Architecture’s Climate-Adaptive Design Studio in...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Climate Change
  • Water