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Society recognizes Cheng as outstanding horticulture grad student
The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) has recognized Liang Cheng, a doctoral candidate in Jenny Kao-Kniffin’s research program, as a 2021 ASHS Outstanding Graduate Horticulture Student. Winners are chosen based on their academic...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Cornell experts advocate for ag diversity, food security
“They’re highly experienced, have managed large farms, have all sorts of skills, and most plan to spend a lifetime in agriculture,” Anu Rangarajan, director of the Cornell Small Farms Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Pioneering animal scientist Van Soest dies at 91

Van Soest’s pioneering work permanently changed the chemical and in vitro analysis of feeds and the understanding of herbivore nutrition. His novel and revolutionary methods of analysis created the standard for how researchers measure the...

  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals

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Romar to bolster SIPS civic and urban engagement

Shari Romar has joined the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) as a communications specialist to help elevate awareness of the school's longstanding engagement efforts with communities across the state, nationally and globally. “Shari...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Biology Section
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Chris Watkins elected ISHS Fellow
Watkins has served as the ISHS Division Postharvest and Quality Assurance Chair since 2018, and he was previously the chair of the ISHS Commission Quality and Postharvest Horticulture from 2014-2018. The society commended Watkins for his...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Produce Safety Alliance offers training in new languages
“We have farmers in this country and globally who provide fruits and vegetables to US consumers and they need training in other languages,” said Elizabeth Bihn, director of the Produce Safety Alliance, a cooperative agreement between Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture

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Business Impact Symposium examines industry sustainability

  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment
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Isolation alters visual areas of brain in social wasps
Paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) recognize the brightly colored faces of other paper wasps, an ability they lose when reared in isolation. The wasps’ ability to remember faces is similar to primates and humans, but unlike other social insects...
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Animals
  • Entomology
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Leading Through Extension: Experimenting Together
Historian and professor Scott Peters has dedicated over two decades to examining the dynamic relationships that scientists, scholars, and extension educators at land-grant universities have with the communities they serve.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Report guides food, ag entrepreneurs; $1M contest opens
The report, titled A Call for Innovation: New York’s Agrifood System, seeks to foster regionalization and diversity in these industries by offering evidence-based recommendations and guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs in agriculture, food...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
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‘Our Changing Menu’: Warming climate serves up meal remake
“Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need,” a new book from an imprint of Cornell University Press, presents a global climate tour of Earth’s foods – from vegetables, grains and meats to beverages and desserts – from the...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
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Institute for Food Safety to offer first in-state FDA training
New York state is ranked second in the nation for food processing, according to the USDA Economic Research Service, and collaborations between the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYS AGM), the Food and Drug Administration...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
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Study: Ag policy in India needs to account for domestic workload
Women’s increased agricultural labor during harvest season, in addition to domestic house care, often comes at the cost of their health, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Programs...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Study: More exposure to political TV ads heightens anxiety
We’ve all seen them: political ads on television that promise doom and gloom if Candidate X is elected, and how all your problems will be solved if you choose Candidate Y. And Candidate Y, of course, approves this message. Beyond attempting to...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Medicine
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Secrets of an Extinct Landscape
The Gandolfo-Nixon lab studies the origin of Southern Hemisphere floras. “I initially became interested in the biogeographical patterns of extant plants—how these plants are distributed and how they have dispersed until they get to where we find...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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Seminar to explore racial and food justice movements in New York
The seminar, “ A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement, ” will be led by Monica White , associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her talk...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Cornell Atkinson, EDF partner on three sustainability projects

The IIF brings together academic and NGO experts and practitioners to develop and test evidence-based solutions to some of the world's more intractable sustainability problems and addresses urgent environmental and public health challenges...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Study will help NYS livestock farmers maximize profit
The goal of the three-year, $500,000 grant is to develop and deploy data, analysis and feedback tools that give farm managers the ability to make better decisions as they select local markets, price meat and market their products – all with an...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
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New model for research co-production speeds knowledge to impact on natural resource management
David M. Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CALS), helped overcome these issues in order to reduce the introduction...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Organisms

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Plantationocene conference to examine plantations’ legacies

On April 15–16, scholars, activists and practitioners from around the world will meet to explore plantations’ deep-rooted legacies – including racial inequality, dispossession and climate change – in a Conversation on the Plantationocene.

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops