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Weed between the lines: Inter-row mowing for weed control in row crops
During the 2021 season, Annika Rowland, a graduate student in Matthew Ryan’s Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab at Cornell University, conducted preliminary research on the use and efficacy of an inter-row mower in organic soybeans at the Musgrave...
  • Musgrave Research Farm
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section

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New book confronts struggle between agribusiness and democracy in California

The book “ In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California ” by Professor Scott J. Peters and Daniel J. O’Connell, Ph.D. ’11 weaves together the stories of eight scholar-activists who opposed agribusiness...

  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Students teach NYC teens about food systems, justice
Over the course of 12 sessions, researchers in the lab of Tashara Leak, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, taught 36 teens about nutrition, food systems and food justice in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of...
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Development
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Natural climate protection may be written in stone
The rocky surface of Earth’s geology may provide a buffer for climate change to absorb excess carbon, according to a new Cornell paper in Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Environment
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Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid
Arboreal species were especially at risk of extinction due to global deforestation caused by wildfires from the asteroid’s impact. In the study, computer models, fossil records and information from living mammals revealed that most of the...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada team earns BGRI research award
The rust-resistant wheat cultivar development team at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) earned the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) 2021 Gene Stewardship Award for their long-standing innovations and strategies to combat wheat rust in...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods.

  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Communication
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Cheers! Wine’s red grape pulp offers nutritional bounty
In a new Cornell-led food science study, researchers now demonstrate how viticultural trash could be a nutritive treasure. The group showed that two stilbenes – beneficial molecular compounds found in plants – can affect human intestines and the...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Beverages
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A storyteller makes ancient Native American tales new again
Perry Ground ’91 travels around the world performing traditional Haudenosaunee stories, adapting them to the present while keeping their traditional spirit alive.
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Climate change adaptation requires Indigenous knowledge
In rural and Indigenous communities with limited access to weather data, generations of farmers, fishers, herders, hunters and orchardists have relied on indicators such as the first snowfall, emergence of a certain plant or arrival of a bird species to guide when to plant, harvest or perform other tasks. But because of climate change, many of these ecological patterns have shifted.
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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$3M grant funds cover crop breeding for organic farmers
A Cornell-led national network of scientists and farmers is developing new varieties of cover crops that are better adapted to local regions and stressors – changes that could carry a bevy of long-term and sustainable benefits for organic growers.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
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Meet our new faculty - fall 2021

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Women indirectly hurt more by noncompete pacts
There are no references to gender in a typical noncompete agreement, but they still have a more deleterious effect on women entrepreneurs than they do on men, according to Dyson professor Matt Marx.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
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Grants fund Cornell AES work to improve lives in NYS
The 52 Cornell projects that have been funded with a total of $3.9 million, beginning Oct. 1, are administered through the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). They include a project from Qi Wang, professor of...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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Four from faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.

  • Animal Science
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Free online course teaches agricultural resilience
A new online course opens opportunities for scientists and agricultural development professionals to blend technical skills with the most advanced findings in social sciences.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development

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Prasad examines implications of digital currencies in new book

In his newest book, Cornell economist Eswar Prasad details how accelerating financial change – such as the rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin – will transform economies for better and worse.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Cornell outreach educators combat pests, support pollinators
Thanks to grant funding from the USDA, the New York State Integrated Pest Management program is developing new virtual courses to help schools implement plans to manage pests such as rodents, head lice, bed bugs or yellow jackets.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Agriculture
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Collaboration plants seeds for cultural, biological conservation
Cornell Botanic Gardens and faculty of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP), in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, have joined with the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ to help ensure that the nation’s language and cultural...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Agriculture
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NIH grant will support strengthening faculty diversity
The $16 million FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) Award will support Cornell’s hiring and retention of 10 new assistant professors over the next five years in three research clusters: quantitative...