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Complex dynamics turn lake water green and brown
Scientists and water managers are working to predict conditions that create color changes and algal blooms, but that’s easier said than done. Researchers have mostly assumed that the ecosystem relationships that lead to these shifts are linear...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environment
  • Water
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The New Mann Café is Now Open
On Monday, August 23, the new Mann Café opened its doors (off of the Mann Lobby) to offer a welcoming array of hot and cold drinks.
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NextGen Cassava director earns Nigeria agriculture prize
NextGen Cassava project director Chiedozie Egesi was announced as the 2021 Achiever in Agriculture Award for his work creating a platform to deliver resilient food systems in Nigeria.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Planes four times as likely to hit birds during migrations
The risk of airplanes colliding with birds increases greatly during migrations, according to research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and partners, who have been looking for patterns in data from three New York City-area airports.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Summer program preps new students for Cornell
Participating in Cornell’s Prefreshman Summer Program (PSP) helped Canyon Cross ’25 – a first-generation college student from Texas who hopes to major in biology and society – realize in advance how challenging the work would be.
  • Biology
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Gretchen Goldman ‘06 named to White House environmental policy office
Gretchen Goldman ‘06 is helping to inform policy at the highest level as the assistant director for environmental science, engineering, policy and justice for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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New engaged course supports NYS rural schools
A new Cornell engaged learning course, co-sponsored by the Rural Schools Association of New York State, aims to help under-resourced schools identify critical funding needs, then seek grant funds to support programming.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
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Narrative approach can change minds on child care spending
According to new multi-institution research led by Jeff Niederdeppe, professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, that all depends on whose hearts and minds are in the audience. For turning...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop
This year the BGRI will host a virtual conference October 6-8 with the theme “Global Resilience: Science, Pandemics, and the Future of Wheat.” The 2021 BGRI Virtual Technical Workshop will explore how nearly two decades of monitoring and responding to wheat rust epidemics can provide lessons for other global disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Keynote speakers will draw attention to how we can apply the lessons learned from wheat research and epidemic response to other pandemic diseases facing today’s world.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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$2M grant to fund assessment of biology education

The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $2 million collaborative research grant to principal investigators from Cornell, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Maine to assess the effectiveness of open educational resources in teaching core biology concepts, facilitating student-centered learning and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.

  • Biology

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Boots in the books: Veterans succeed at academic prep camp

Sixteen students veterans participated in a virtual Cornell academic boot camp to help them transition into higher education.

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Troubled Waters: Microplastic Pollution
Lisa Watkins, graduate researcher in our Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, analyzes streams and engages communities to reduce the plastic from clothes, grocery bags, and other products in our waterways.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Environment
  • Water
Maureen Hanson and a student in a lab.

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Scientists take step to improve crops’ photosynthesis, yields
Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than most crops, so researchers are working to put elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants. A new study describes a significant step towards achieving that goal...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Environment
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Facial recognition AI helps save multibillion dollar grape crop
A radical collaboration between a biologist and an engineer is supercharging efforts to protect grape crops, and the technology they’ve developed will soon be available to researchers nationwide.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Touted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas or coal
‘Blue hydrogen – made by using methane in natural gas – is lauded a clean, Cornell and Stanford researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy

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TV ads inspire investment interest

In a new Cornell-led study, published Aug. 10 in Management Science, researchers show that advertising is one of the most noteworthy influences behind retail stock investing.

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Sarah Evanega Joins BTI Faculty

Boyce Thompson Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Sarah Evanega as the newest addition to our faculty. Evanega joins BTI from Cornell University, where she was a research professor in the Department of Global Development and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS). She will remain an adjunct associate professor in SIPS at Cornell.

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Health + Nutrition
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Politicians in areas with most climate risk tweet about it least
Almost all U.S. politicians tweet about climate change based on party affiliation and the opinion of their constituents, not actual climate risk to the areas they represent, a new multidisciplinary study found.
  • Department of Communication
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Global Development Section
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New York Youth Institute announces student delegates to global youth event
Cornell's New York Youth Institute (NYYI) announced the selection of 20 outstanding high school students who will represent New York State as delegates to the 2021 World Food Prize Global Youth Institute.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell's Humphrey Program: An opportunity to grow and lead
Humphrey Program associate director Polly Endreny Holmberg recounts a first year with the program full of uncertainty, experimentation and inspiring support.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development